Hurricane Helene

Safiel · 2024-09-26T15:34:23.044Z

From the 11:00 am update.

All of southwest Florida is in the tropical storm wind field. Looks like southeast Florida is just going to get brushed or miss the tropical storm wind field altogether.

But it is a huge wind field. Looks like it will catch the Orlando area in about another hour or two.

W_and_C · 2024-09-26T15:39:09.428Z

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TheRedComet · 2024-09-26T15:41:51.589Z

Protect the alligators!!!

wonderingrover · 2024-09-26T16:10:39.093Z

I’m in North GA directly in the path of Helene, but it is predicted to be a tropical storm with 50 - 70 mph winds by the time it gets here. Fortunately, there are now rivers or anything close to me - there will be a lot of rain and flooding. The biggest concern here is massive power outages from trees and power lines being blown down - they are talking like it may run into the hundreds of thousands.

bigtwnvin · 2024-09-26T16:42:10.244Z

A storm could level inhabited areas and reduce it to a wasteland. The gators would still be there.

TheRedComet · 2024-09-26T16:44:56.752Z

They are survivors that’s for true.

bigtwnvin · 2024-09-26T16:58:08.502Z

Only pro wranglers should get close to these buggers. Dumbasses who walk their dogs too close to a lake or canal not paying attention sometimes have an unfortunate encounter. There have been small children taken, the Gator doesn’t eat right away it grabs prey, drowns it then feasts later. They’ll occasionally stroll across a fairway and golfers try shooing them off Gator isn’t impressed. Prehistoric animal, kinda fascinating.

Gaius · 2024-09-26T17:44:41.362Z

Safiel:

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From the 11:00 am update.

All of southwest Florida is in the tropical storm wind field. Looks like southeast Florida is just going to get brushed or miss the tropical storm wind field altogether.

But it is a huge wind field. Looks like it will catch the Orlando area in about another hour or two.

Well this update indicates its gonna park and sit for 24 hours right over . . . . (checks map)
Clarksville Tennessee and Fort Campbell Kentucky.

Safiel · 2024-09-26T18:01:16.911Z

Gaius:

Well this update indicates its gonna park and sit for 24 hours right over . . . . (checks map)
Clarksville Tennessee and Fort Campbell Kentucky.

And Nashville also.

FreeAndClear · 2024-09-27T14:06:09.695Z

For anybody who understands weather patterns. How does it turn left like that over the continental us. I don’t think i have ever seen that before. I could be wrong though but it feels like they always go east

Liberty323 · 2024-09-27T14:11:18.349Z

Yeah, the combination of very soggy ground along with high winds means a lot of trees could come down. Hopefully you all make it without losing power.

Safiel · 2024-09-27T16:11:42.930Z

FreeAndClear:

For anybody who understands weather patterns. How does it turn left like that over the continental us. I don’t think i have ever seen that before. I could be wrong though but it feels like they always go east

I was looking at the surface map (i.e. the one with fronts and high and low pressure centers). Unusual lack of high pressure in the eastern United States, which is what normally steers the storms rapidly to the northeast. Instead, there is an approaching cold front, which is what is drawing this storm slightly to the northwest.

Safiel · 2024-09-27T16:12:46.790Z

Tallahassee got lucky. The storm wobbled east just before landfall and Taylor County and the City of Perry ended up getting the worst of the impact.

FreeAndClear · 2024-09-27T16:15:54.271Z

Safiel:

FreeAndClear:

For anybody who understands weather patterns. How does it turn left like that over the continental us. I don’t think i have ever seen that before. I could be wrong though but it feels like they always go east

I was looking at the surface map (i.e. the one with fronts and high and low pressure centers). Unusual lack of high pressure in the eastern United States, which is what normally steers the storms rapidly to the northeast. Instead, there is an approaching cold front, which is what is drawing this storm slightly to the northwest.

Thank you.

SixFoot · 2024-09-29T13:39:58.734Z

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Toll_Collector · 2024-09-29T13:51:56.222Z

FreeAndClear:

For anybody who understands weather patterns. How does it turn left like that over the continental us. I don’t think i have ever seen that before. I could be wrong though but it feels like they always go east

I see you got your answer already, but when you said that all I could think of was hurricane Sandy back in 2012. It went right up the coast, then took a hard left into NJ. It wasn’t even a hurricane when it hit us, but I never seen anything like that. I can’t imagine what a category anything would look like. I was just slightly east of its path.

bigtwnvin · 2024-09-29T15:40:38.133Z

This is one bad ass bitch of a storm. I think more damage and loss of life was felt in the Appalachia’s than Florida. I saw a report about Chimney Rock NC. I have been motorcycling through there, Ashville, Sugarloaf Mountain, Cherokee, Pisgah, Great Smoky Mts National Park etc. The photos of areas and roads I had traveled were impossible to believe. It’s all gone. My God.

New York Post – 29 Sep 24

Apocalyptic siren blares as Hurricane Helene ravages North Carolina village,...

“My car’s gone. Everything’s gone. It’s all gone.”

FloridaYankee · 2024-09-30T01:55:09.568Z

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My brother’s street in Punta Gorda FL with three feet of water, unprecedented in anyone’s memory. It came to within inches of his house. He had his boat in the driveway ready to go, the last couple of feet came up fast and he thought they would need it.

Gaius · 2024-10-02T19:54:31.545Z

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The view of the Southeast region from space the night after Hurricane Helene tore through, leaving millions of people without power. Photo: NOAA

https://www.axios.com/local/charlotte/2024/10/02/space-image-power-outages-hurricane-helene

TheRedComet · 2024-10-02T21:55:00.405Z

Crazy that even with an insanely destructive hurricane tearing everything up, there’s still more electric lighting at night than North Korea.