2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Running Thread

[BTExpress]

Atlanta was never meant to be the size it is, and that's why Georgia keeps crying about access to the Tennessee River.
As noted, waterways were our highways prior to the 1950s.
In Tennessee's case, your four major cities - Nashville (Cumberland), Memphis (Mississippi), Knoxville and Chattanooga (Tennessee) - are all located on rivers. The state's motto is Agriculture and Commerce, and we have a sheaf of wheat on a river boat on the state seal.
All your port cities along the east coast and the Great Lakes, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Louisville, on and on.

The problem is that the most vulnerable places are where people are moving and have been for decades.

You can only throw your chin out at Mother Nature for so long before she winds up and crushes it.

 

[Driftwood]

The problem is that the most vulnerable places are where people are moving and have been for decades.

You can only throw your chin out at Mother Nature for so long before she winds up and crushes it.

You aren't wrong, and I am as guilty as anyone. But nowhere is "safe" these days. If it's not hurricanes, it's tornadoes, flash floods, droughts, mud slides, fires, something.
It's almost is if someone should have read the Georgia Guidestones instead of blowing them up.

 

[Neutral Corner]

The problem is that the most vulnerable places are where people are moving and have been for decades.

You can only throw your chin out at Mother Nature for so long before she winds up and crushes it.

I used to drive to my boss's beach house in Galveston and be absolutely astonished at some of the places quarter million dollar summer places were going up. A good storm surge would see eight feet of water inside of them, or worse. I wouldn't even want to guess at what insuring one of those costs today.

 

[Neutral Corner]

2.2 million without power in Houston. Not fun.

 

[sgreenwell]

2.2 million without power in Houston. Not fun.

Just got our power back in the Katy suburbs - lost it for about 10 hours. So, mostly safe and sound, although highly annoying. Everything in the fridge is in the 50-degree danger zone, so that needs to be chucked, and we lost some roof tiles. Also, I realize I haven't mentioned on this board before that my wife is about 40 weeks pregnant with our first - Literally due this weekend. She has not been thrilled at the idea of going into labor just before, during or immediately after a hurricane.

 

[User 1019]

Kid better be named Beryl

 

[dixiehack]

I've never told a sweat-drenched man who just lost all his perishable food congratulations before. But congrats!

 

[tapintoamerica]

Well, Alicia was a Cat 3 August storm that was small but extremely powerful and took dead aim on Galveston and Houston. That was a very dangerous hurricane -- 962 millibars and 115 mph sustained winds at the eye. Nasty.

Beryl was unraveling before it got to the Yucatan. It still had an eyewall near Jamaica but was rapidly losing intensity and cohesion. The latest forecast has it possibly regaining some rotation before it strikes the coast and right now it's at 992 millibars. It's going to go from 85 mph to 40 mph as soon as it hits the coast and come apart rather quickly.

Alicia was like getting hit in the face by George Foreman. Beryl is going to be like getting hit in the face by a sandwich from a George Foreman grill.

A ham sandwich? If so, perhaps there will be indictments.

 

[Twirling Time]

A few miles separated a biblical flood from a nothingburger. All we got were a quarter-inch of rain and cooler weather.

 

[TigerVols]

Memphis may "slide" into the river.

If it slides all the way to Arkansas it will double the IQ of two states.

/NativeNashvillianJoke

 

[Twirling Time]

The bluff may actually spare a good part of the city in (at least) a 7.0 because it was obviously built upon rock. Western Tennessee is surprisingly hilly and has resisted erosion by the Big Muddy.

The bridges will be toast and liquefaction will destroy everything on delta soil from St. Louis to Vicksburg. And if it's an 8, there's nothing you can do.

 

[franticscribe]

Just got our power back in the Katy suburbs - lost it for about 10 hours. So, mostly safe and sound, although highly annoying. Everything in the fridge is in the 50-degree danger zone, so that needs to be chucked, and we lost some roof tiles. Also, I realize I haven't mentioned on this board before that my wife is about 40 weeks pregnant with our first - Literally due this weekend. She has not been thrilled at the idea of going into labor just before, during or immediately after a hurricane.

My youngest was born during a tropical storm at 40 weeks. There is some correlation between the barometric pressure drop and women starting labor. I don't think a causal link has ever been established, but he was a couple days early and labor started right after that big pressure drop hit our area. The L&D ward was incredibly busy that night. My son was the seventh kid our midwife delivered and she had an eighth after him. She said three or four is more typical.

Anyway, sounds like y'all made it through and hopefully that baby is here soon!