Hurricane Helene recovery: Bad news: Another section of Interstate 40 collapsed along the Tennessee/NC line this week. As a result, engineers must figure out if they can safely reopen the Westbound side of 40 with traffic using the Westbound side for both eastbound and westbound traffic. However, due to this collapse, the reopening of the side has been delayed indefinitely. It was supposed to open on January 1st.
Latest on the Blue Ridge Parkway: Good News & Bad News re: the Blue Ridge Parkway via National Park Service. GOOD: Around 75% of the 469-mile scenic route will open by Spring, including our favorite section, from Grandfather Mountain to Blowing Rock BAD: The worst damage Helene caused to the BRP spans from Linville Falls south to Mount Mitchell. Facilities at Linville Falls (including the visitor center, picnic area comfort station, and portions of the campground) were destroyed, and staff have documented over 48 landslides and other storm-related damage in those 38 miles. Long story short, there will be sections of the Parkway closed between Linville and Asheville for ALL of 2025. The photo below is a mere sampling of the damage caused by Helene.
Not Hurricane but our Central Florida posters all good? That Tornado fucked some shit up. Lost multiple windows and trees at my office building in Lake Mary
These places look like they were literally right on the other side of I-4 of my house in Lake Mary as well.
I just did the calculation as the crow flies on line those houses that are gone on Markham Woods was 1.13 miles away from my house.
glad you didn't have any damage, that thing spun up so fast, I'm shocked there weren't any injuries on I4 or in the houses
The shit I drove through last night on 75 through Lake City was scary. I started hydroplaning multiple times
Driving on 75 in the summer of 2005, I hydroplaned across three lanes and skidded to a halt in the median. Probably the scariest thing to ever happen to me.
Short term looks like an active April for tornadoes, long term getting another early season warm Gulf will allow for storm development.
Pretty good accuracy on landfall, rapid intensification hurt on intensity accuracy. Not sure how that can get better.
This is awesome, in North Georgia we used to never get storm warnings and last few years we get them 1-2 times a year
Water temps popping, even if it's a reduced season anything that makes it close to Florida is going to have rapid intensification.
Anecdotally, the water temps off St Simons this week were warmer than I ever remember this time of year. Worried me a little for hurricane season.
With how warm these gulf temps are, I feel like there's a chance there's a "I wouldn't worry about that little guy" that quickly develops into a powerful storm.
This definitely feels like a season where climatology indicates there are only a couple named storms near the US, but the few that get into the Gulf are super charged before landfall and wreck where they hit
I for one, am just excited about all the “did you catch sunset” photos on my Facebook page. But I secretly love being out fishing and seeing these sunrises over the water
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Is denying that hurricane season is a thing a tenet of the climate change deniers platform? TheChatch
I'm genuinely curious how a Gulf state will handle a major hurricane hit this fall if FEMA is largely absent in the follow up. Especially a major population center, will that state be ready to not only handle initial emergency work but the following cost of clean up? FEMA covered a lot of cleanup efforts in the past through reimbursement, that's now a state burden. Will those residents be shocked to see essential services cut to afford absorbing the costs or even that some cleanup just never happens because there is no money at all?
Breaking the government's ability to help or aid the citizenry is I think kind of the endgame, unfortunately. They want people to suffer and then say "omg big old stupid government can't do anything right." It sucks!
Huge news in weather modeling and hurricane forecasts. Apparently ingesting historical data DeepMind did extremely well forecasting storm movement. Maybe we can start to get precise landfall and strength predictions inside 3 days.
I don’t have twitter to read how it works but did they remove any data from storms around that time to analyze a storm to track. Just curious about the information it already had basically on Hurricane Z allowing it to accurately predict Hurricane Z’s path.