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Helene! Posted by Fred SC on September 27, 2024, 3:24 pm The storm has mostly gone just gusty still. We lost power this morning at 2:15. The entire upstate is without power. We had winds of around 40 and gusting to 69 mph for aseveral hours . Lots of trees down on houses etc. our trees lost a few limbs but yard is strewn with leaves and branches, looks like a war zone. Still out of power. Trees fell on about 25 homes in the hood, about 40 uprooted. Two houses up tree crushed his truck and porch . Road from bout subdivision to Simpsonville is still covered with trees and ,closed . They now say we had cat 1 winds over 75 mph gusts. I believe it . We drive around snd it is unbelievable damage! Hope everyone else is ok

Re: Helene! Posted by Jason Western PA on September 27, 2024, 9:00 pm, in reply to "Helene!" Happy your safe! It started this morning here with some breezy winds. We had some light rain this afternoon. All is gone now. Luckily, we didn't get this one.

Another storm brewing in the western Caribbean. Posted by Rob N TN on September 27, 2024, 11:04 pm, in reply to "Helene!" Fred it sounds awful what you all went through. Glad everyone is safe in your family. We had several bad storms last night (outerbands) they scattered branches and debris all over the neighborhoods but the storm didn't get here until after lunch today. We have had (on again, off again) high wind gusts to 40 mph and a few down pours. I saw only one tree down laying along a downtown street. I cannot believe the death toll from this storm. A dam on the TN and NC state line failed, flooding that town and nearby Newport,TN in Cocke County with 8 feet of water. Those towns had to evacuate several thousand people and I 40 going into NC was washed away and I mean really bad. Motorist traveling to Tennessee might have to take I 26 to I 81 (Tri-Cities) and come into Tennessee that way or go down to Cherokee and go through the Smoky Mountains and some local roads are closed in the area. Cherokee is flooded though. Nashville had thousands without power early today but got most all back up quickly. A commuter train there hit a tree blown on the track and crashed. Looks like a good chance of showers into Monday before its out of here. Forecast models are showing a "copycat" tropical system forming SE of Jamaica and its thought when it enters the gulf it might aim for areas of the big bend and that's bad news. We will have to wait and see if this happens again next weekend, Thanks Fred.

Re: Helene! Posted by Alvin, z6 on September 28, 2024, 12:29 pm, in reply to "Helene!" Good to hear that people were spared, Fred.im sure the insurance companies "are being flooded", with claims. Lights back on, or are you using a generator?

Helene refuses to die Posted by Rob N TN on September 28, 2024, 3:23 pm, in reply to "Helene!" The NWS radar is still showing a huge eye with circulation of heavy rain and thunderstorms. The eye covers a huge area in Kentucky from Mayfield east to Hopkinsville and north at times to Evansville and south to Clarksville, Tennessee. Huge storm tropical rain bands are clobbering Cincinnati and outer bands to Pittsburg and areas northward. Ohio has been needing rain badly and the southern areas are getting it. Louisville and Indianapolis are getting heavy tropical rains as well. What a storm. My final rain totals look to be a good 6.5" so far, rain bands will swing back through (currently windy and misty rain) before ending tomorrow night. NWS suggesting another 1/2" or so before ending by then. 4 days ago the Nation Drought Monitor was showing Ohio, W.VA and Tennessee as the worst in the country. South Carolina had a severe area around Anderson and northward into the mountains. Surely this storm has been a positive for this drought. Looks like KENTUCKY may beat #6 OLE MISS in Mississippi * at this very moment (well 1:57 to go in the 4th) Ky 20 Ms 17 - GO CATS

Re: Helene refuses to die Posted by Barry Senatobia, Mississippi on September 28, 2024, 4:22 pm, in reply to " Helene refuses to die" Rob wish we could get some rain about now. My county is the only severe drought location in the state and no rain in sight. I did get three inches of rain during Hurricane francine a few weeks back. Yeah, UK pulled off a win but it took them 30 years

Re: Helene! Posted by David-Shenandoah Valley of VA on September 28, 2024, 5:40 pm, in reply to "Helene!" It sounds like a mess down there. I need to check on my niece that lives down there in Greenville. We did not get as much rain as I thought we might from this one. It's a little hard to tell since it was raining some already before the storm moved through yesterday. Considering everything in the past couple of days, we got just under an inch. It was a fast moving storm. In one day. it had come ashore on the panhandle of Florida and by the end of the day it was heading for St Louis. Crazy! However, the Washington weather person I watch said that the remnants of Helene would mix with another system in the Midwest and move eastward. So...., we are supposed to get some rain Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Today, the skies cleared and it was sunny and around 80°. We haven't seen much sun all week.

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