With the roads being cut off to NC, this is a relief organization that can have an immediate impact during the next few weeks. They will begin operating out of an airfield near Charlotte tomorrow.
From 2019: “Future flash flood and landslide disasters along the Blue Ridge will happen … not necessarily in the exact same spots, but with increasing frequency along the mountain range.”
Hurricane Camille, similarly coming up from the Gulf of Mexico, in 1969 demolished mountainous Nelson County, Virginia, which is even further inland relative to landfall. It still ranks as Virginia's deadliest natural disaster. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019...
With rain falling so heavily it was difficult to breathe, nearly three feet of water accumulated in just eight hours.
NOAA/NWS and all the mets did a superb job forecasting and warning about Helene. This isn’t on y’all. Since Harvey, I’ve been struggling to determine why the excellent messaging still isn’t getting to many people in a way that leads them to take action and what could be more effective.
“It can also be lonely waiting for everyone else to understand what’s about to unfold.” I feel that all the way deep in my bones. @samlmontano.bsky.social
Q, from U.S. Rep. Diana Harshbarger: “Who would have thought a hurricane would do this much damage in East Tennessee?” A, from climate scientists: 🙋♀️ 🌊🧪
Helene blew ashore in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 hurricane late Thursday packing winds of 140 mph (225 kph) and then quickly moved through Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee.
Houston area peeps: there is now a NOAA weather alert account you can follow => @hgx.nws-bot.us@wandrme.paxex.aero for setting it up
Ted Cruz and the Secret Service are on my flight to Dallas this morning. We made eye contact, and he nodded and smiled warily. I didn’t punch him, but I think a jury would acquit me if I did. Is he going to curse the Aggies at the game today?
"[Scotland] has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13." That's honestly so amazing.
In a large Scottish study, no cases of cervical cancer were found among women who received HPV vaccines before they turned 14.
You can hear the despair and exhaustion in those last few words. Those poor folks … this is their Katrina/Harvey.