I’ve been watching hurricanes for over 50 years. This thing grew incredibly fast and threw tons of rain and huge storm surge hundreds of miles away. It looks like Fort Myers/Sanibel has been nailed again.
That’s gonna be a very impactful storm. Hope everyone’s friends and fsmilies are doing OK
*wrath
Stay safe everyone, looks horrible.
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Hope folks got out of the way of this one. Given the surge and winds, this one is not a “ride it out” storm.
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Hope those to my west are doing well too. We’re in Ea NC aren’t seeing much, just winds gusts ~40mph, and maybe an inch of rain. Those in the path will see much, much more. I hope they’re smart and stay away from flood prone areas and are prepped for days without power.
Helene did find a rather warm pocket of water in the Gulf, adding to its strength. I hope for everyone’s sake that it fades fast.
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My wife and I were just in Asheville a couple of weeks ago. Seeing the pictures of the flooding there and in southeast Tennessee is very sobering.
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Weirdly affected in Kentucky. Many of the schools in our region were cancelled. Pretty grateful it slowed down when it hit here. My Carolina friends aren’t so lucky.
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I’m no DeSantis fan but it does seem like he’s good at dealing with natural disasters.
I’m going to admit something embarrassing here. In a brain fart moment, when I first saw the title of this thread this morning, I assumed that “Helene’s Wrath” was going to be about some new death metal band SkinyUte had recently discovered.
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That star is equal to a hundred stars
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10/10 post.
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That’s frickin funny!!!
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I worked for a decade in South Florida, commuting by air back and forth every week or two, a little northwest of Miami, and I’ve been in touch with some of my colleagues who still live in the area.
They were very pleased to have the brunt of the storm largely bypass that general area, and were more than prepared for a bump in bad, but not catastrophic weather.
I dramatically recall the bad years, and how fortunate I felt to have a few days warning, to allow me to be able to get on a plane, fly home, and watch the whole thing on the weather channel.
I don’t know how they do it 
Oh, and, every single time I left under such circumstances, I came home, broke out a bottle of decent wine, and watched Bogart and Bacall in Key Largo before going gratefully to sleep, absent any personal fear of the weather. The first time I saw that film was as a perhaps 14 year old, on the late night Channel Two movie, sometime around 1970. I’ve been hopelessly infatuated with Lauren Bacall ever since.
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The city planners and managers I met from there have become masters of disasters. Many have more than a few communications redundancies that allows them to react to priorities faster than anything we are used to seeing here. They also use technology to allow residents to “self report” structural issues with their properties. We used this piece with the Magna Earthquake, but we were slower at getting the reports from the people because it was so new and unique here. There it’s old hat.
The EMS centers there will be running for several months to get all the data collected and the recovery reported and in the hands of FEMA to begin the process of assistance claims.
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I heard that a local sheriff went door to door on the big bend of Florida prior to the storm and asked residents who were set on riding out the storm if they would do him a favor and write their name and address with a sharpie on their forearm in case they needed to be identified.
That would make you think twice.
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