Hurricane Helene

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Geo said:
Probably, when dams collapse or just get overwhelmed
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Geo said:
Probably, when dams collapse or just get overwhelmed, it happens pretty quickly.
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that entire area of Eastern TN / Western NC, is Appalachian mountains and valleys, may rivers, lakes, streams, waterfalls, and the TVA dam / reservoir network. Many of the towns are in valleys.

I used to ride my sport bikes up in the GA, TN, NC mountains, like Deal's Gap, Cherohala Skyway, Blue Ridge Parkway, etc.

when heavy rains come, it doesn't take long for flash floods
 
rsm said:
sail away from the path of the storm if you can, or find a "safe harbor". There's a big catamaran anchored nearby in a small estuary; it was there before we got the storm, it was still there after Helene. I shrimp boat workers houseboat (he lives on his boat), broke it's anchor line and was pushed ashore; undamaged he had to wait for high tide to float it out again.

Most of the boats in marinas and anchored around here seemed to do fine; if a big storm was heading this way, some would try to move them out of the path, or at the very least be sure they were secured in place. Depending on where your boat is located, your insurance policy may dictate what you have to do to be covered...
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A common tactic I saw people use in Florida is to take the boat into the mangroves and tie off about six or eight nice heavy lines to the mangroves and a few anchors set well. The mangroves are pretty solidly planted but still sway with the motion of the ocean so there aren't heavy, boat destroying jerking motions.
 
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acceptance said:
How did they end up in this? Did flooding happen so fast they couldn't escape to higher ground?
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Pretty much yes. Flood waters come up quickly. This happened to my wife and I in 2016 except we weren't sitting in the living room. We got up on the top of my truck until a rescue boat came.

It was a normal rain storm that started the evening before. Nothing unusual and no signs there would be flooding. Woke up the next morning it was still raining, but not really heavy. Ditches were full of water, but still nothing unusual. Within about 30 min or so it went from a normal rain to us having 5 feet of water in our house along with the rest of the town flooding the same way. No warning signs and nothing we could do after the water started rising. And it's not like we lived in a super low point for all the water to come rushing towards us. The neighborhood we lived in was actually one of the highest points in town.
 
One of my best friends has several crews from EMC working 16 hour days for 10 days, then they rotate with other crews and rest up for 10 while the others go at it hammers and tongs. He says entire runs of electric infrastructure is gone and they are having to build it from scratch to get people up and running. One of his guys got bit by a moc and had to go to the hospital. He says the stuff you are seeing is def bad but the worst parts don’t really look that bad until you realize everything is gone and nowhere in sight.
They are running on 10 and having stuff brought in by helicopter to get to some spots.
It’s really very similar to a military operation.
He’s done this stuff for 30 years
 
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