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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 152 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 74 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 82 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The most unrealistic thing about this illustration is that the majority of people are recording in landscape.

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[–] kinther@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Helene was only a category 4 and did this amount of damage. It's insane.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah man-made climate change ain't real, we get hurricanes in Tennessee all the time

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 46 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And durechos in Iowa, and smoke covering the sky for months, and "cold snaps", and hottest summers on record, yeah these are all normal things that I totally remember having as a child. Keep your heads in the sand people, it's all just one crazy storm, they couldn't possibly be all related

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Don't look up

[–] nnullzz@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

“Only” a cat 4? It was one step away from the highest rating of 5..

[–] Sc00ter@lemm.ee 22 points 10 months ago

I think because we've seen cat 5s do less damage across the nation. The category is for wind strength and doesn't necessarily corelate with flooding /rain fall

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

It's a wet category 4. It's the type that carries months of rain and looks for a place to dump it all in a few hours. They create a lot of flood damage. A dry cat 4 would do wind damage and storm surges but not the water bombing.

The scale doesn't say how wet a storm is, just how fast the wind is. Revising this scale is still being discussed.

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

This was also a lot more powerful than the Appalachian mountain and westward communities are used to getting. They aren't set up for it in the same way that communities East of them and on the coast are.

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[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If we make it ILLEGAL to Mention Helene Storm then we will SOLVE the Problem!

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

If we don't test for hurricanes, the problem will go away. Don't look up.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 38 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Hi, someone from Asheville checking in. Absolutely devastating here, much like Erwin up the road.

Biltmore village

River arts district

I've never been in a hurricane before this but it was absolutely insane. We're so far inland, and so typically climate insulated. No one expected nearly this and it quickly overwhelmed everything we have. Just got soke cell back, I've heard potentially weeks for power for some and same on water.

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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Not climate change sure sucks, don't it, Republicans. Anyway I live up north so I'm fine, at least as far as hurricanes are concerned.

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Getting some Chocolate Factory vibes, but it is the scary boat ride part.

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