Helene Is Coming

[silverscreenselect]

Hurricane Helene is due to hit landfall in an hour or two in the Big Bend area of Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, which fortunately is the least populated coastal area of Florida. (When I was younger, we'd periodically here about drug dealers getting arrested trying to smuggle their cargo into this part of Florida.) It's supposed to move north very quickly, and hit the Atlanta area around daybreak tomorrow with winds that could be 60-70 mph. The biggest worry we have here is power failure, since there are a lot of trees overlooking power lines all through metro Atlanta. Flock's in the same general area with the same general storm conditions.

I've canceled my doctor's appointment tomorrow with my cancer surgeon. The earliest date he could reschedule me for is November 1, but I'm on the waiting list for an earlier date. I will feel a lot better when they gave me an all clear after this appointment.

[Beebs52]

All good wishes for y'all. Hope your doc appt can be earlier.
Hurricanes suck. May you keep power etc

[Bob Juch]

One of my clients is Regions Bank. They're preemptively closing many branches.

[silverscreenselect]

The storm veered to the east as it headed inland, so instead of hitting Atlanta nearly head-on, it's closer to the border with the Carolinas. Good news for us; bad news for them. Some areas here lost power; we didn't. The biggest damage here is flooding. The creeks through Atlanta have flooded with 2-3 feet of water or more in the nearby streets and subdivisions. One major road near us is closed because of a sinkhole. Our daughter is going in to work late today, but a lot of businesses are planning on opening in the late morning.

[BackInTex]

The storm veered to the east as it headed inland, so instead of hitting Atlanta nearly head-on, it's closer to the border with the Carolinas. Good news for us; bad news for them. Some areas here lost power; we didn't. The biggest damage here is flooding. The creeks through Atlanta have flooded with 2-3 feet of water or more in the nearby streets and subdivisions. One major road near us is closed because of a sinkhole. Our daughter is going in to work late today, but a lot of businesses are planning on opening in the late morning.

Glad you're making out well.

My group, within our larger company, has over 1,000 workers engaged in storm restoration (power). That's 20% of my group's workforce.

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

I am here to report that my electricity and for 150k customers here in my part of South Carolina is out and my electric recliner will not recline

[BackInTex]

I am here to report that my electricity and for 150k customers here in my part of South Carolina is out and my electric recliner will not recline

I'll see if I can get you on the priority list.

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

Thanks BiT, I have survived, and once again I am grateful for the linemen.

[Ritterskoop]

Our power flickered in my neighborhood in Charlotte; plenty of folks lost theirs. We are near a hospital, and they say being on their grid helps.

We had a two-day trip to the Santee River in SC planned, but they have lost power, and said we could reschedule.

The Lake Lure Dam west of us is about to break, but that area is not heavily populated. It's on the Broad River rather than the Catawba, but still. Movie-level stuff.