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Erwin TN after Helene Storm
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Helene was only a category 4 and did this amount of damage. It's insane.
Yeah man-made climate change ain't real, we get hurricanes in Tennessee all the time
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
Don't look up
“Only” a cat 4? It was one step away from the highest rating of 5..
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
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.
Last I read this morning it was still a category 4 and never made 5.
Yes correct. But I’m more pointing that that saying “only a cat 4” comes across like if it was a weak storm that did all the damage. It was about 15mph shy of being the highest rating.
Its winds are well below hurricane strength now. It's a post tropical cyclone for its spinning nature and it's prodigious rain.
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.
It doesn't help when idiots keep building in flood plains.
Oh fuck off. "Then she shouldn't have dressed like that" ass take.
Nature doesn't ask for consent. It is an uncontrollable force. Flood plains will eventually flood just as certainly as a volcano will eventually erupt or the sun will rise. If you build a house in a flood plains it WILL be flooded. Maybe not this year, maybe not this decade, but it will happen eventually with absolute certainty.