Hurricane Helene

[Jim Oaks]

Anyone here have damage or affected by the hurricane?

 

[Blmpkn]

Waiting for Florida man @Ranger850 to check in... hope everything is good!

 

[JoshT]

Helene was initially tracking to run right up I-75 through Georgia, and I'm just off the interstate to the west a little below Macon. Somewhere below me it decided to veer off to the east and bypass Macon. As a result the most I got was a bunch of rain, and some small limbs thrown around in the yard. Based on my bedroom breaker being tripped, I think the power flickered sometime during the night.

My parents are a little further north on the other side of the interstate, still on the south side of Macon. During the storm they had about the same weather. Apparently one of their trees couldn't handle it and started breaking. By Friday afternoon the tree was split and one half down across their driveway. Can't wait for them to get it cleared, my car is currently trapped over there since I swapped vehicles Wednesday and I'm getting tired of driving the F-250 already. Can take a truck across their yard and bypass the tree, but I wouldn't want to do it in the car. They called a tree service before they called me, so they're supposed to have someone out Monday to get it cleared up. Probably for the best, if we tried to do it, dad would have done too much and hurt himself. Also don't need to chance the other half falling on the neighbor's house.

 

[bobbywalter]

how bout that biolab in GA again.

 

[JoshT]

Maybe a secret bio weapons facility and it was attempted cover for the next Wuhan type outbreak. Probably just typical careless idiot. Doubt it had anything to do with Helene.

 

[bobbywalter]

Maybe a secret bio weapons facility and it was attempted cover for the next Wuhan type outbreak. Probably just typical careless idiot. Doubt it had anything to do with Helene.

i said....again. i know the place.




and why wouldnt it be storm related. could have been power issues or venting or flooding that was storm related........or or..

looking at that fire....the actual smoke its not good.

we have had gas and pumping facilities go up here from severe rain from hurricane paths that came through the gulf.


the people stranded all over especially in tennesee....is horriffic. most people are not prepared for this shit. and evenif you were....if it all gets washed away in an epic flood then what?


this sux. and there is more fun on the way. and having a biolab in shambles to share effluent in the sure to happen additional flooding isnt exactly a good scenario.

 

[JoshT]

As you said, it isn't the first time the place has had a fire. If there wasn't a hurricane/flooding the last time, why assume that a hurricane/flooding is the cause this time?

We can speculate in cause all we want, until the findings are released that speculation means nothing. As of right now they are saying malfunctioning sprinkler head, not flooding, a roof leak, or anything else that appears hurricane related.

 

[Ranger850]

Waiting for Florida man @Ranger850 to check in... hope everything is good!

I was more prepared for this storm than I have ever been. NEWS kept mentioning "catastrophic damage" over and over. So i removed the tarp covering that is my shed, hooked the generators up to my house, my in-laws house and my dad's place. Heavy winds picked up around 10:30 pm. Wind and rain was the most we got. Power flickered but never failed. The north side of town got hit harder than the rest. (I'm on the east side) I think Georgia and the Carolinas got hit worse than Florida, or at least Florida was more prepared for the devastation. I've heard towns like Ashevill, NC were gone. Seen some pics on TikTok that showed whole towns wiped out. Which is crazy to me, because my meteorologist kept saying it was going to be strong into the Carolinas.
real question
How did the Carolinas NOT KNOW it was coming? I understand that most times they weaken when they hit land, but our news was pretty adamant about it hitting the east coast hard.

 

[fastpakr]

real question
How did the Carolinas NOT KNOW it was coming? I understand that most times they weaken when they hit land, but our news was pretty adamant about it hitting the east coast hard.

What do you mean? They absolutely knew it was coming and tried to prepare. But nothing they could have done quickly would have prevented the damage this storm brought.

 

[Curious Hound]

I’m in the devastation area. My place is ok. Just lost 32ft of privacy fence and power was off for almost 24 hrs. Mom still doesn’t have power. She’s only 3 miles away from me. I’ve been working normal hours each day. The storm stalled out in this area for a while and hit hard, considering how far inland we are. There is a little tourist village “Chimney Rock” that completely washed away and is piled up in Lake lure, where the movie Dirty dancing was filmed. Asheville, NC is a terrible mess. They’re using helicopters to get supplies in and people out.

 

[bobbywalter]

As you said, it isn't the first time the place has had a fire. If there wasn't a hurricane/flooding the last time, why assume that a hurricane/flooding is the cause this time?

We can speculate in cause all we want, until the findings are released that speculation means nothing. As of right now they are saying malfunctioning sprinkler head, not flooding, a roof leak, or anything else that appears hurricane related.

i dont care if it was storm related or not. that facility has complex underground structure and its not the point.

dude. there is a biolab spewing shit all over hell....or rather heaven....farging Georgia.... in the middle of severe rain events. that is the problem.

your first response .... think about that. a real biolab is covering major area.... and totally avoidable.

all of these poor bastards needing medicine and supplies have alot more shit to worry about now because... the most brilliantly prepared will be fawked due to mobility.

regardless, the fact that that place, functioning as it does.... indeed has to exist to do what it does.....

but it sure as fawk does not have to exist there. especially based on experience. loooong standing at that.

fukushima was fairly well thought out by that baddest mfers in the world..that came up with godzilla movies and were actually attacked with atomic weapons... and water fawked that all up too.



at the end of the day....i worked alot of storms....and andrew was the worst....but katrina was close. made shit tons of cash cleaning up the carolinas post storms when i was young.

this deal is totally a different thing all in all.

some years back i was working in west virginia and they had a serious ass whoopin over there and i was trapped in pa more then once by flooding.

once you are penned up with nothing, you learn the hard way.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

What do you mean? They absolutely knew it was coming and tried to prepare. But nothing they could have done quickly would have prevented the damage this storm brought.

If they had been better prepared their dams wouldn't have failed and their towns wouldn't have been washed away...

 

[Curious Hound]

There is no dam upstream of Chimney rock. That was purely “too much rain too fast. It’s near the bottom of a very narrow valley in the mountains. Only way to prepare for this would have been to have never built a town there at all. But you have to build somewhere and the vertical pieces of land are difficult to deal with.

It’s kind of like telling people in the Midwest that they should be better prepared for tornados so the tornados won’t blow them away. Only way to prepare for that is “dont Live there”. But if nobody lived there, it wouldn’t Be America’s breadbasket.

 

[JoshT]

Back up there a bit Bobby. This is a thread where Jim is asking about forum members affected by the hurricane. So are you referring to my first reply where I responded to that, or my second reply where I sarcastically said that the fire was a cover-up for the next Wuhan virus and not caused by Helene?

Either way, unless that biolab is a member here I don't see how it is relevant to the topic of this thread. Even if the lab was a member the fire was not caused by the hurricane, so not relevant. If a member here was affected by that fire as you said, it would be a result of the fire, not the hurricane, ergo still irrelevant to the thread. Chemical fallout from the fire, still not caused by the hurricane. Don't try to say that the rain was because of the hurricane, this is Georgia, it was going to rain with or without it.

If you want to make a thread ranting over the the biolab for assorted reasons, be my guest. Don't blow up at me for saying it wasn't caused by the hurricane and implying that it is irrelevant to the thread, when both are true.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

There is no dam upstream of Chimney rock. That was purely “too much rain too fast. It’s near the bottom of a very narrow valley in the mountains. Only way to prepare for this would have been to have never built a town there at all. But you have to build somewhere and the vertical pieces of land are difficult to deal with.

It’s kind of like telling people in the Midwest that they should be better prepared for tornados so the tornados won’t blow them away. Only way to prepare for that is “dont Live there”. But if nobody lived there, it wouldn’t Be America’s breadbasket.

I was being sarcastic, there is no way to really prepare for that. Generators and plywood on windows need not apply.

i heard over the weekend at least one dam was expected to let go.

Agreed, something that big you can only do so much... and there isn't much you can do.