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Originally posted by HRK:

Heres the live web cam on St George Island, at the entrance to Apalachicola Bay... Surfs up!



You can also go to the St George Lighthouse Cam

Link

Thanks for the link HRK. I had forgotten the SGi lighthouse has a live webcam now.

There was another Hurricane Helene, before most of us were born, and her development was on just about the exact same days in September, 1958:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Helene_(1958)


Hurricane Helene was the most intense tropical cyclone of the 1958 Atlantic hurricane season. The eighth tropical storm and fourth hurricane of the year, Helene was formed from a tropical wave east of the Lesser Antilles on September 21, 1958. Moving steadily westward, the storm slowly intensified, attaining hurricane strength on September 24. As conditions became increasingly favorable for tropical cyclone development, Helene began to rapidly intensify. Nearing the United States East Coast, the hurricane quickly attained Category 4 intensity on September 27, before it subsequently reached its peak intensity with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph (240 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 930 mbar (930 hPa; 27 inHg). The intense hurricane came within 10 mi (16 km) of Cape Fear, North Carolina before recurving out to sea. Accelerating northward, Helene gradually weakened, and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone as it passed over Newfoundland on September 29. Helene's extratropical remnants traversed eastwards across the Atlantic Ocean before dissipating near Great Britain on October 4.


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^^^ Almost exactly a month before I was born.

All is well here in Santa Rosa County. Good luck to all thats in its path.

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Originally posted by TigerDore:

There was another Hurricane Helene, before most of us were born, and her development was on just about the exact same days in September, 1958:

I was 21, stationed at NAS Chincoteague (Virginia). We had a bit of clean-up to do after the storm passed.

For those of you that have radios that can receive the NOAA emergency alerts, you may want to tune in. My county EOC pushes alerts to cell phones, land line phones, and email. However, during TS Debbie, I used my GMRS with emergency weather alert capability to listen to the NOAA broadcasts directly and compared their information to the information disseminated through more main stream channels. The NOAA alerts were more frequent and more detailed. For example, a nearby county had significant tornado activity, and the NOAA broadcasts identified them several minutes before other sources, and would provide location information down to neighborhoods or nearest major intersections. In one case, a tornado was identified in a specific state park near my house. The mainstream notices typically only identify county, or portion of county. During significant activity, the alerts can be a bit annoying, but I rather my radio be going off than not know something I need to. YMMV

Looks like this thing may take an odd turn north west and park for a while. Spares eastern Virginia, but puts Nashville area at risk for flooding. Hope she gets the wind knocked out of her before that happens.

Be safe everyone.

Glad to see V-Tail has his supply priorities in order.

Getting pretty wet in Charlotte. Hoping we miss the high winds.

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Originally posted by DrDan:
For those of you that have radios that can receive the NOAA emergency alerts, you may want to tune in. My county EOC pushes alerts to cell phones, land line phones, and email. However, during TS Debbie, I used my GMRS with emergency weather alert capability to listen to the NOAA broadcasts directly and compared their information to the information disseminated through more main stream channels. The NOAA alerts were more frequent and more detailed. For example, a nearby county had significant tornado activity, and the NOAA broadcasts identified them several minutes before other sources, and would provide location information down to neighborhoods or nearest major intersections. In one case, a tornado was identified in a specific state park near my house. The mainstream notices typically only identify county, or portion of county. During significant activity, the alerts can be a bit annoying, but I rather my radio be going off than not know something I need to. YMMV

This is great advice. We’re currently losing our internet and cable TV, thank you Comcast! We’ve four tornado warning in the last hour including one within 1/2 mile from our house. The we are getting warnings via text and calls to our phones plus the emergency alert system on our phones, but the information isn’t specific as far as location.

Oh, there goes alert #5!

ELToro- How are you doing in your new home?

Pat

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Originally posted by GASIGnut:

Seeing the Eastward wobble convinced us to ride it out here.

Good luck, you are now staring down a Cat 4 storm.....

The SARNet is becoming active as the various EOC's are coming to life....

Had to put my swim suit on and pull the cars all the way up the driveway:

Reed is poking the bear, as he does. I know some folks in Atlanta. Let's hope this thing keeps moving as fast as it is. 70-80 mph winds, flash flooding and tornadoes over the next few days. Be safe all.

South of Atlanta, in the last 24 hours I have emptied 9" from my rain guage. That ground is soaked, bad combo for high winds.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Had to put my swim suit on and pull the cars all the way up the driveway:

Storm surge or just rain?

Morganton NC here, just at the foot of the mountains. Our lake is already over the spillway with advance notice of possible 10 feet over flood stage. I work 911 in the county to the east of Morganton, and we're already experiencing trees and power lines down, and the wind hasn't gotten up yet. Looks to be an eventful night and I'm working with a short crew.

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Originally posted by 229DAK:Storm surge or just rain?

Storm surge, with the wind from the south which is the worst direction for us. The tide is rising, but the water seems to be holding steady. As the wind shifts to coming from the west, the water should recede.

GASIGnut - you are insane if you don’t get out of Apalachicola immediately! I hope you’ve already evacuated. Good luck.

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Originally posted by Todd Huffman:
Morganton NC here, just at the foot of the mountains. Our lake is already over the spillway with advance notice of possible 10 feet over flood stage. I work 911 in the county to the east of Morganton, and we're already experiencing trees and power lines down, and the wind hasn't gotten up yet. Looks to be an eventful night and I'm working with a short crew.

I was in Rutherforton area earlier today, Broad river was already really really high

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Originally posted by PR64:
ELToro- How are you doing in your new home?

Pat

High and dry. We’ve been here almost 3.5 years. We have had some tropical storms dump more rain and give us better thunder and lightning.

Tonight we had little drizzle this afternoon not even windy here. We had a Tri tip BBQ tonight it was so not windy and dry. I’m also in Santa Rosa county.

Prayers for my Florida and other southeastern brothers and sisters getting hit hard.