Erwin TN after Helene Storm

- The most unrealistic thing about this illustration is that the majority of people are recording in landscape.
Nah it's cool, I've got a lawn chair and a bottle of whiskey set aside for the end of the world.

I live here and I am not voting that way. I am hoping this wakes some of my ignorant neighbors up.
- I assure you they will find a way to blame the blue team that is easily defeated with logic and facts but they will have already made up their mind.
- Your ignorants neighbors will think Helene is the consequence of the Dems.
Tennessee and Kentucky are far more purple than conventional thought gives them credit for.
- Fr not only do they lose the popular vote.. even the red states aren't all 80/20.. there are miserable intelligent Americans everywhere and nobody gives a shit. I've lived in blue bubbles my whole life and spent a ton of time in red places with red people (stop, you know what I mean), and there are always normal blue people. And most red people are only a disinformation or two away from being with it. Unfortunately that's all it takes in a two party system and they game it well. Take away angels and abortion and before the hell cult, most Americans are half decent and not Nazis.
- Take away Memphis and see how much the hue of Tennessee shifts towards 0°.
The kind that gets struck in the face with a wooden paddle and it seems like they're saying - "THANK YOU SIR MAY I PLEASE HAVE ANOTHER?"
- With Kevin Bacon wielding the paddle
Good! There wont be as much flooding if we stop measuring it! /s
- Sorry for the losses but shit like this is caused by ignorance for and/or denial of climate change and its causes.
  Don't use the victims to silence the solution which indeed is better policies to avoid or at least dampen the impacts of climate change. And it is a political problem that can only be solved by voting for those who take care of the problem and don't deny it.
  I wish you and all the people there all the best. And as soon as you're all safe please make sure you all go and fucking vote.
- NO. I watched rural Republicans laughing that my state was on fire. I saw them saying we deserve it because of "something something heathens". Nobody deserves it. This is a national spotlight and I'm going to be as clear as day. We have one party who flat out denies climate change, which is directly causing all of this. We have another party who is not doing nearly enough, but at least have some plans. This is absolutely a political problem, because voting for the party who actively denied this is happening is slapping you in the face. You should absolutely be angry at them. People's houses floated away and that party is shrugging and sending thoughts and prayers. Being active now is the empathetic approach.
- In that case, heres some thoughts and prayers
- Northerners just assume everyone in the South are ignorant conservatives. There’s no such thing as a red or blue state, it’s all shades of purple.

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
“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.
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.

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

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

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

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.

AB tech has shelter available (near mission hospital), 88.1 has updates at 10 and 4 every day, i26 to the south is the only way in and out for civilians now. Stay safe everyone
- I have a coworker who lives in Flag Pond and can’t get home since Friday until the roads gets fixed. Must have the interstate open again to get home.
I hope you and yours are safe and healthy. Hopefully no fatalities in your family and friend group on the local area.
Take care out there.
Glad you are okay. I got out yesterday too and the scenes of the city were just an absolute mess. Glad the cell towers are back online, so many people I saw yesterday were just trying to find a spec of reception to get even a single text out to their loved ones to let them know they were still alive.
It's going to take quite some time to repair all the damage and get power back up, but I saw the National Guard rolling in as we left with tree chippers 🙏

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.

Anyway I live up north so I'm fine, at least as far as hurricanes are concerned.
My parents came from Ohio to visit me in Texas just after Ike came through. I was going to show them around Houston the first couple of days, but we just got out of there. About halfway through their visit, the neighbor called to tell them trees were down and there was no power and it was expected to be out for days. Weather (and IIRC tornadoes) from the remnants caused all kinds of damage.
People have lost their homes. Please keep your political bickering out of this.
- Events like this will become more common and widespread due to those politics. But thoughts and prayers right?
- Wooooshh
- People have lost their lives and homes, and will continue to do so at increasing rates, precisely because of this "now is not the time for politics" sentiment when it comes to climate change. The longer we kick the can down the road, the more people are going to be killed or displaced because of it.
- I think feeling frustrated that we're not doing enough to prevent the next set of people from having to go through this and suffer this bad is a perfectly reasonable reaction to have, actually.

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

I dunno why but those highway exit designs look really elegant

They seem to hold a lot of water!

Is Tennessee usually hit this hard by hurricanes? I can’t recall ever seeing anything this catastrophic from a hurricane that hit Tennessee before.

No. Another problem is that we had a week of rain BEFORE the hurricane came through.

thoughts and prayers

build in a flood plain and that will eventually happen.

For such hurricanes with precipitation amounts beyond the scales, every area is a flood plain.

All you dumb flatlanders had to do was build on the hills. They're right fuckin there and none of you ever think to do it.

So the mountains are filled with vacation rentals, skiing etc. all the roads shut down, Banner Elk NC they have to bring food and supplies by air right now.
- "Gee that big floodplain at the foot of those hills sure looks nice. Better rebuild my formerly flooded home on this precise exact spot again instead of moving 500 feet to the left and building on that nice hill. That would just be stupid."