Hurricane Helene

[Danderman123]

2 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Do you have a link for that claim ?

 

[Danderman123]

1 hour ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

  A huge deadly storm is hitting the USA and all you can think about is Donald Trump .

   That is some obsession with Donald 

2 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Do you have a link for that claim ?

 

[Danderman123]

1 hour ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

  A huge deadly storm is hitting the USA and all you can think about is Donald Trump .

   That is some obsession with Donald 

2 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Do you have a link for that claim ?

 

[thaibeachlovers]

14 hours ago, John Drake said:

 

In his case, individually, I think he's okay. He's helping out elderly relatives and friends who lived in nearby towns. Everybody from the area is saying this was beyond imagination. And it had rained already for three or four days before the hurricane hit. I can cut these folks some slack, because I wouldn't have expected a hurricane to wipe out two inland areas either. It's the coastal residencies I don't understand. They just keep rebuilding and repeating the same old mistakes year after year--because insurance pays for it. Beach homes and beach businesses I think should be prohibited. In the past, that's why you had shacks for homes and businesses along the coast instead of multimillion dollar beach mansions.

Fair enough. However it's basic preparedness for the unexpected to have some supplies. The Mormons have stores for a full year. It's not expensive to have some canned food that doesn't need heating to eat and some bottles of water, and a basic first aid kit.

I'd have thought in a hurricane zone most would do that.

 

Perhaps having lots of money does not impart common sense. Surely time for insurance companies to refuse for property on the coast.

 

Everybody from the area is saying this was beyond imagination

Not so. Worse in the past. Those that forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane

[jerrymahoney]

3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I'd have thought in a hurricane zone most would do that.

While people can always be better prepared, referring to mountainous western North Carolina as a 'hurricane zone' and then talking of Galveston sitting lowland on the Gulf of Mexico is a bit of a stretch.

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by jerrymahoney

[Nick Carter icp]

3 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

 

 

   Matt Wallace says that  , some guy who posts on Twitter, hardly a Trump whatever you call them .

  You should just ignore these people with extreme absurd tweets and not repost them 

[jerrymahoney]

2020 North Carolina Presidential election -- western NC 'Hurricane Helene' to the left with the 2 blue spots Asheville and Boone:

[Cryingdick]

If a hurricane hits hard and wipes an entire region out does it make a sound in California at big donor events>

[John Drake]

4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Fair enough. However it's basic preparedness for the unexpected to have some supplies. The Mormons have stores for a full year. It's not expensive to have some canned food that doesn't need heating to eat and some bottles of water, and a basic first aid kit.

 

 

Supplies don't matter when they and your house are either under six feet of water or completely washed away. 

[Cryingdick]

It will be fine. Trump has the Big Macs and Muzk has the net. 

[thaibeachlovers]

1 hour ago, jerrymahoney said:

While people can always be better prepared, referring to mountainous western North Carolina as a 'hurricane zone' and then talking of Galveston sitting lowland on the Gulf of Mexico is a bit of a stretch.

 

 

I wasn't referring to the geography, but to the strength of storms. Galveston happened long before climate change became a cult word.

[Cryingdick]

Just now, thaibeachlovers said:

I wasn't referring to the geography, but to the strength of storms. Galveston happened long before climate change became a cult word.

 

In this area it is down to flow rates and descent down the mountains. I have noticed just east of me on that side of the range they always get hit hard. They basically built towns in the cracks of the mountains. There is very little flat l;and.

[thaibeachlovers]

3 minutes ago, John Drake said:

 

Supplies don't matter when they and your house are either under six feet of water or completely washed away. 

I had considered that, and indeed in some cases it's going to be a complete loss, But I'll hazard a guess and the 6 feet of water is going to go away and if the house is still there, the supplies will be too.

The possibility of complete loss does not excuse doing nothing beforehand though.

[Cryingdick]

9 minutes ago, John Drake said:

 

Supplies don't matter when they and your house are either under six feet of water or completely washed away. 

 

That is actually when supplies matter the most. When you lack shelter and are vulnerable.

[thaibeachlovers]

1 hour ago, jerrymahoney said:

While people can always be better prepared, referring to mountainous western North Carolina as a 'hurricane zone' and then talking of Galveston sitting lowland on the Gulf of Mexico is a bit of a stretch.

 

 

I wasn't referring to a specific state, just to anywhere in a hurricane zone. My advice stands even for those not in a hurricane zone. The unexpected is just that.

 

In my case it's likely to be an earthquake.

[jerrymahoney]

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I wasn't referring to a specific state, just to anywhere in a hurricane zone. My advice stands even for those not in a hurricane zone. The unexpected is just that.

 

In my case it's likely to be an earthquake.

OK. I was set to visit then was canceled NC when 22 SEP1989 Hurricane Hugo hit coastal NC. I noticed then too people were short on supplies.

 

I went back to my home in Alameda (town) East Bay San Francisco and  stocked up on water and supplies and 3 weeks  later 17 OCT 1989 the Loma Prieta earthquake hit. I was on the collapsed Cypress Freeway structure twice that morning. And I still keep a supply of 6 liter water jugs here in Isaan.

 

So one can never tell can one?