I do think it's pretty important that Biden take some performative steps with regard to the response. Like get some army bridging equipment in there and get a supply route open to Asheville
well this is great news, I thought all they had was a shitty football team, but they are going change the world with....electromagnetic bombs you're welcome.
I’ve seen this posted on FB so many times this morning. I asked one if that included arms shipments to Israel and they won’t respond.
our govt regularly does incredible stuff following huge disasters so it’s a good opportunity for Biden and Harris to advertise that right before an election
its the Mag Lab but it's been inactive since a May tornado caused damage had we been up and running with MagBombs this shit woulda fizzled at the shoreline
Wife's a pharmacist and just got a notice they can refill insulin w/o scripts in disaster areas. Common sense. Nice.
Yeah it isn’t cheap or fast (I’d have to look up my price sheet for work but a road dig can be several hundred £’s per meter) but it also makes your maintenance substantially cheaper long term and new install basically free since you can pull hundreds of meters of cable in a few minutes vs having to go pole to pole. And it’s muuuuuuch safer to work on since you don’t have power and telecom in the same duct.
We have them here in East Anglia which is basically all reclaimed swamp. On which bit? The “everything on one pole” thing is a safety and efficiency thing. Safety obviously because to fix a telecom cable on a HV/LV pole, you have additional safety guidelines and clearances to avoid the power. Additionally, HV AC current damages fibre optic cables long term. From an efficiency aspect, if you have all the things on one pole, if that one pole breaks or becomes damaged you lose everything AND then have to wait for 2 to 4 different utility companies to coordinate putting things back in the right order so the telecom guys could be waiting around for days/weeks for the power company to clear and repair their stuff, cuz it’s higher on the pole and it would be unsafe to work on the telecoms span while there’s damaged HV power lines.
Southeast drainage map https://www.researchgate.net/figure...r-Basins-Draining-to-the-South_fig1_223137286 Spoiler
with the Tennessee River feeding the Mississippi, is it going to be bursting its banks in a few days?
Not sure how it is in the UK but power and telecom should never be in the same duct regardless of the location.
Should've saved them to knock out equipment broadcasting future FSU home games to the rest of the world. Seriously, though. Hope all in all effected areas are safe. I had to remind neighbors bitching while we were without power for about 10 hours how damned lucky we are to have homes.
Still no power, just a bunch of downed trees on the street with no house damage so really fortunate. Got plenty of water and food, just waiting things out now and trying to not get too bored. Driving around for the first time now, chilling in a Wal Mart parking lot to get internet access for a moment. Luckily I was able to listen to the peak UNC'n Saturday on this little weather radio. Anyway, all good considering, adios for now
This is a real thing, in the sense that people actually believe the FSU Maglab actively keeps extreme weather from Tallahassee. Everytime the radar has rain in the surrounding areas but not directly over Tally people become further convinced we’re somehow immune to extreme weather events. People are dumb.
Chief Munsee (a fictional character that never existed) protects the city of Muncie from tornadoes, so I understand.
My godparents are stranded after a bridge blew out on the only route in/out of their neighborhood in Banner Elk. They have been without water and power since the storm. But, apparently they are on a list to be airlifted out by the national guard at some point. Luckily a nearby neighbor had a generator so they've been running to their house every so often.
At least locally, around Knoxville, all the problem rivers flow into Douglas Lake. That dam has been putting out a lot of water (400,000 gallons a second is what I saw) but they have managed it to prevent down stream flooding from there. There are several more dams between there and the Mississippi that should allow them to control the outflow.
Per a friend in Asheville this is already happening. Also sounds like roads are opening back up pretty quickly in that area fortunately but rumors of no water for weeks.
As far as federal management, it's only anecdotal, but initially FEMA did not declare my county as part of the disaster area on Saturday morning. The county mayor then drove around with one of their officials and by Saturday afternoon we were included. Now the damage here does not compare to western NC, but there are thousands without homes, tens of thousands without water and a lot of roads and bridges are gone. We should have been part of the disaster area from the start. Also Tennessee governor Bill Lee did not declare a state of emergency until after whole towns were under water. And that absolutely delayed federal response.
we are still waiting to hear from some of our staff who live in western NC. and a few of our people lost their vehicles, cars, "everything" and so that's horrible. not sure what our HR dept will do (i expect nothing) but i hope they can do something. idk what, though.
This is correct. The TVA does a really good job managing the water elevations along the TN river. Kentucky Lake (the last before the TN reaches the Ohio river) is operating ~1' above it's normal reservoir elevation for this time of year, which is still a couple feet below the summer water levels, so they have plenty of capacity if needed. https://www.tva.com/environment/lake-levels/Kentucky/Operating-Guide Wilson Lake in north Alabama (between eastern TN and Kentucky Lake) is operating at normal elevation, too. https://www.tva.com/environment/lake-levels/Wilson/Operating-Guide Also, typically the TN river discharge accounts for approx 1/4 of the Ohio river discharge, which accounts for approx 1/2 of the discharge of the MS. So it accounts for ~1/8 of the MS which has been really low this fall.
IIRC, his response to the 2021 Waverly flooding, when 20" of rain fell within 24 hours and parts of town were basically washed away, was also pretty poor
Still no power and very minimal cell service in my town. I got lucky and only had damage to my fence, unlike plenty of houses near me. A lot of trees down but they fell away from the house. There are probably 20 power poles in my neighborhood that just snapped in half. Whole orchards of pecan trees all came up at the roots. South GA definitely wasn't prepared for a storm of that magnitude.
Finally got some, low quality, pictures from my sister of my parents house in Augusta. The first two are my parents house and the rest are from the neighborhood. It really looks like a tornado spawned and did an intense amount of damage.