Dave N. wrote: Mon Jul 08, 2024 3:07 pm Looks like Beryl caught everyone in SE TX off guard. Lots of my Houston family with a flooded street, trees and fences blown down, and no electricity. Tornadoes all over the place as the storm tracks northeast. I hope you Houston/Beaumont PRFers are ok!

Just saw this, Houston had it way worse on that one.
I had to watch what I said around Houston because some people were straight up without power for a long time, and it was easy to forget just because it didn’t get us here at all. .

Hope Louisiana makes it out ok w/ Francine. It’s like a russian roulette for the gulf coast every time. Hurricane scares are pretty crazy, and it just gets worse afterwards.

jfv wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 7:48 am

Dave N. wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 7:42 am I’m hoping Francine goes easy on my Louisiana and Mississippi peeps.

+1

Any hurricane hitting that part of the country is scary since almost all of the land is around or even below sea level.

Just reread my comment and thought, "DUH"

But anyway..

Thinking of y'all in Florida, Georgia & the southeast (e.g., FM DaveA, FM dontfeartheringo, etc.) as Tropical Storm Helene is predicted to go from zero to catastrophic hurricane in less than 48 hours. Stay safe.

Thanks for your well wishes.

The first one I endured--Hurricane Irma--was the most rattling. Since then, it's been easier to size up these approaching extreme weather events with more stoicism.

Cheers.

jfv wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2024 3:41 pm Thinking of y'all in Florida, Georgia & the southeast (e.g., FM DaveA, FM dontfeartheringo, etc.) as Tropical Storm Helene is predicted to go from zero to catastrophic hurricane in less than 48 hours. Stay safe.

+1

Had a performance yesterday in Lakeland FL and I just got out of Tampa on a 7am flight. Bandmates are scheduled to fly back in the early afternoon and if they can’t get out then, it will be a problem.

Best to DaveA and DFtR.

This hurricane specific blog is usually pretty informative: https://theeyewall.com/

They have a lot to say about Helene.

I don't even know where to start with all of this. Thursday was chaotic and laden with anxiety as I spun up my portable battery thing (it's the size of an igloo cooler and has a solar panel), stockpiled batteries and ice, ground a bunch of coffee, etc etc etc.

Power flickered once at midnight then 90 seconds later went off for the next 12 hours.

Slept like garbage worrying about the storm.

The next morning when I finally got my head clear and made coffee on a camp stove, I discovered via my smart phone that the storm had largely hooked around Athens and the worst was over. Power was back on by 2pm. It felt like we'd dodged a bullet.

Then I started hearing stuff out of Western NC and Eastern TN. Whole communities cut off from the world by swollen rivers and collapsed bridges. Downtown Asheville is underwater. Augusta, GA has no power and won't until the second week of October. Nowhere have I heard that the National Guard has been mobilized. Nothing has been said by the President.

People are dying from lack of water and medical care. My buddy who is a helicopter pilot has been taking critically ill patients off of roofs of dead hospitals and moving them to places where the power is on. It seems like the news is barely covering it. It's crazy.

The Biden Administration is too busy with underwriting Israel's genocide to care about its own citizens, especially those in some of the poorest regions of the country.

This is Harris’ defining moment. Everyone is watching.

My cousin recently moved to Asheville and built a recording studio in the woods. Haven’t heard if it’s still operational. No phone service yet.

I love the Asheville area and it's on a short list of "if I could make it work" places. Some of the time spent there it was in far more danger of wildfires than this, but I guess enough rain will overwhelm any place. The footage is pretty unbelievable.

I have experienced I-40 shutting down there before and you're essentially stuck.