Hurricane Helene

[Dad]

Update from the NWS has Helene making landfall as a cat 4 and will still be a Cat 1 in Macon, GA. Rapid intensification seems certain.

Atlanta forecast for 5 to 10 inches of rain and 60 mph winds - bad combo for our big hardwoods.

Shout out to the Asheville and Tennessee doggies. Hell of a lot of water coming your way folks

[deadfan]

I wish the best for all of you in the path.

[Chez]

Helene is moving freaking QUICKLY! Due to be 955 millibars at landfall and still 960-970 when it heads past Atlanta. She's going to be a real bitch. The good news, I guess, for any individual area is that she won't linger too long if she continues to the current pace. But she's also huge, so those rains are going to extend all over the eastern states.

And there's another one that may form right behind it that's currently tracking a Bay St Lous/Gulfport-ish landfall late on October 6.

Season is heating up a bit late, but the peak is definitely here.

[Dad]

Grate points above Chez, fully agree

We have really good seats for the Georgia vs Alabama game over in Tuscaloosa on Saturday night and hoping for no damage and a road trip

[Chez]

May want to just drive over a day early if you can extend your room for an extra night. Easier said than done in SEC land, I know.

Hope y’all come through w/o damage.

[denaz]

Asheville NC just got 5 to 7 inches of rain from a cold front coming thru and this is still not the rain we are going to get tomorrow night into Friday, where they are predicting another 12 to 15 inches, man the kayaks folks!!

[Dad]

In Alpharetta, Georgia

Got 3 plus inches since 2 pm and thunderstorms all night teed up.

Be one hell of a kayak run brother!

[denaz]

In Alpharetta, Georgia

Got 3 plus inches since 2 pm and thunderstorms all night teed up.

Be one hell of a kayak run brother!

Doing everything we can to keep the basement dry, but if we lose power, we might fucked.

[stellablue72]

Good luck friends. Stay safe!

[caseyjonesed]

we are 40 minutes from Wilmington. supposed to get 3-4 inches so not bad except
for the 11 inches we had last week. ground is saturated so minor flooding ahead.
I started an environmental news site in 2008 and ran it until 2010. tried to spread the
word. global warming denial has our planet on the hot seat.

[KEZHEAD]

Prayers for all of those affected by this

[mossismyrice]

I am bear Brevard, NC.

There is already mass flooding and there are already many road closures.......and the worst has not even yet arrived.

Yikes.

https://youtu.be/F3-p3HJ_w0Y?si=ddJTtFxE2LcIGora

[weironourown2]

Thanks for checking in. From the very very few 'news' sites that i venture into these days, just thought that this mess was primarily hitting the panhandle. Didn't realize that severe flooding, in addition to recent rainfall, has been occurring in other places in the path and have been and are being hit. Best wishes and minimal damages, hopefully {{{a total miss}}}, to those in its path.

[Chez]

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphi ... e#contents

This is going to be so bad for Apalachicola to Chassahowitzka as it makes landfall, for the heavily wooded areas of Florida and Georgia that the continued winds are going to roar through, and for some of the mountain communities that are going to see mass flooding and huge mud slides.

[Dad]

Now a Cat 4 and screaming towards the big bend area. This things a killer

[stellablue72]

Anyone down there still got your ears on?

[friki]

Thinkin about all of our southern doggies this morning.

Stay Safe peps.

The weather folks just said the French Broad river is supposed to crest at 30 feet in Asheville. Previous record is 20.4

[stevus]

((((((((southern doggies))))))))))

[Dad]

Well that was like being fully dosed at a cop convention

Just leaving the Atlanta metro now. 42 hours of non stop rain. Foe Killer Creek runs along my property and it’s raging this morning.

Hoping everyone up in Western North Carolina is okay. Those folks are getting serious flash flooding

[caseyjonesed]

Well that was like being fully dosed at a cop convention

Just leaving the Atlanta metro now. 42 hours of non stop rain. Foe Killer Creek runs along my property and it’s raging this morning.

Hoping everyone up in Western North Carolina is okay. Those folks are getting serious flash flooding

"Well that was like being fully dosed at a cop convention"