Several reports of alligators swimming through residential areas in Sarasota, Florida, emerged after Hurricane Helene hit the Sunshine State.
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Just a few miles from us here in Sarasota County are areas seriously flooded by Helene’s storm surge, but we weathered the storm at our place with no damage, thank our Lord. The wind here never got much over 50 mph and we had surprisingly little rain.
Swathes of SC are without electricity and the storm downed many trees, killing some and inconveniencing others.
(so I heard from Crackerbaby)
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We got strong winds and no rain..My Buddies House in Port Charlotte got 5″
of water inside… Driving to Key West and back on Thursday was an adventure
though…My Van really responds to wind….Badly.
They were warned.
https://youtu.be/XyHnec9rPRE?si=9Ke2aAgKe7aALYbR
That is: killing some people (trees, too, probably) and inconveniencing other(s) people (I don’t know if storms can inconvenience trees).
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No high water here in upstate NY yet, just high taxes that are drowning us.
It could always be worse in Florida. They could have Walz or Whitmer for a governor.
Whatever they’re saying hit the Atlanta area must have been somewhere else than my area. My friend called from Germany to see if we survived the “category 1 hurricane” which hit us. I assured him that aside from a couple days of steady rain, a few hours of mild wind gusts and a little high water, we were fine and the sun was out Friday.
There has been much worse tropical storm weather around these parts in the last sixty years. I’m getting the idea that, once again, the media is sensationalizing in the service of ratings and cLiMaTe cHaNgE, not necessarily in that order.
And I am not making light of whatever local calamities other Southerners and Floridians have suffered, just speaking for myself regarding Helene.
Charleston didn’t get it bad. But it sounds like NC and TN had some serious trouble. I think the damage was more the western borders of NC and SC, eastern TN.
A friend lost his house in Tampa, but a couple of other friends there are okay.
Lots of cleanup to do all over the place, for sure.
The worst that we ever had here in the Pacific NW was when Mt. St. Helens blew up on Sunday May 18, 1980, and that was a once in a lifetime event. My daughter and son-in-law and family who live in the Nashville area are experiencing a lot of rain but no major flooding or other damage. Other than that, we get an occasional snowpocalypse every 20 years or so which keeps the riffraff out. The last one was during the winter of 2008-2009 and it was a doozy. We got 3 ft. or more of snow in a 36-hr. period a week before Christmas 2008 and it continued into a blizzard with hazardous white out driving conditions just after the New Year. That was no fun.