🌀 Climate Change Is Fake News

Helene’s Cat 4 landfall gives the U.S. a record eight Cat 4 or Cat 5 Atlantic hurricane landfalls in the past eight years (2017-2024), seven of them being continental U.S. landfalls. That’s as many Cat 4 and 5 landfalls as occurred in the prior 57 years. pic.twitter.com/p4RQapmiLM

— Jeff Masters (@DrJeffMasters) September 27, 2024

Data don't lie. I write about how our disaster management system was built on the belief disasters were random and rare. That is no longer true, but we still rely on policies and disaster relief that are based on the fallacy the danger won't come again. #thedevilneversleeps https://t.co/MaJ2Tgseu8

— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) September 28, 2024

Pretty sure I’ve never seen this on I-40 before.

Short and to the point pic.twitter.com/8TR5mSFuGG

— Tim Boyum (@TimBoyumTV) September 27, 2024

Left: What standing on I-40, looking down at US 74 normally looks like.

Right: Same view, with flooding from the hurricane

(that's the Blue Ridge Parkway bridge in the distance) pic.twitter.com/BDNuRPY39I

— Kathy and Jim (@kmgjab1221) September 27, 2024

God bless the soul who stopped their car & jumped a concrete barrier in Western NC to warn oncoming traffic that I-40 had just disappeared in front of them. pic.twitter.com/8iwUkN4TTP

— Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (@wilsonhartgrove) September 27, 2024

This could be a big election story in NC in coming weeks-seems inevitable a lot of polling places are probably destroyed and volunteers who may be unable to help now. https://t.co/qUTQfLmDCH

— Tim Boyum (@TimBoyumTV) September 28, 2024

While you’re on stage moderating a propaganda rally in Michigan, Tennesseans are facing unprecedented flooding — Get home and do some work for once. https://t.co/PU4fq7nYOZ

— Tennessee Democratic Party (@tndp) September 28, 2024

NBC News:

Helene, a post-tropical cyclone, was expected to stall over the Tennessee Valley through the weekend, and could bring an additional 1 to 2 inches of rain across parts of the Ohio Valley. 

At least 42 deaths have been reported as a result of the storm, which made landfall Thursday night in Florida's Big Bend region as a Category 4 hurricane. 

More than 3.8 million customers are without power in states stretching from Florida to Ohio. 

Officials warned of an imminent breach of a dam in Greene County, Tenn., on the border with North Carolina, and told residents downstream to move to higher ground immediately.