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Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. The combination of strong wind gusts with wet and loose soil will cause more trees to fall than is typical with these winds,
We've seen the Gulf Coast, generally, as the target for many of the storms over the last four or five years,
Marshall Shepherd, director of the Atmospheric Sciences Program at the University of Georgia and former president of the American Meteorological Society, told ABC News We can't talk about Hurricane Helene without talking about climate change, which is causing stronger and more destructive storms,
Stronger winds pile up more water, creating bigger storm surges,
Michael Mann, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, told ABC News Helene is a poster-child for the ways that human-caused climate change is amplifying the coastal threat from intensified hurricanes combined with rising sea levels,
We’re starting to get the first glimpse of what we actually have laying on the ground and what we’re going to be dealing with,
Some of the causeways were underwater, so we have to inspect them and make sure they are safe to pass,
It’s hard, but we will continue to recover as a community, and we will do everything in our power to continue restoration efforts for our residents,
county emergency management director Cathie Perkins said at a news conference One of our finest has lost his life trying to save others,
Kemp said in a storm briefing We've actually been seeing some people swimming through the area, alligators swimming through the area,
You may be more likely to see alligators, snakes and bears, so remember to stay alert and give them space,
the FWC said in a statement at the time, Newsweek reported I feel like a lot of us know what to do now,
This is one of the biggest storms we’ve ever had,
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said This is the fourth hurricane to make landfall on the Gulf Coast this year. This has happened only five other times in history,
meteorologist Stephanie Abrams of The Weather Channel said on CBS Mornings The Skyway Bridge and the Howard Frankland Bridge are both CLOSED due to high winds and storm surge. Motorists should stay off the highways,
Tampa's Florida Highway Patrol tweeted alongside an intense video Water beginning to come over walls off the beach in Indian Shores,
Tropical storms and hurricanes require several ingredients to get stronger. First, there needs to be warm ocean waters, warmer than about 80 degrees Fahrenheit. The evaporation of this warm water provides the energy a tropical cyclone needs to strengthen,
Brian Tang, an associate professor of atmospheric science at the University at Albany, New York, told Newsweek This rainfall will likely result in catastrophic and potentially life-threatening flash and urban flooding, along with significant river flooding. Numerous significant landslides are expected in steep terrain across the southern Appalachians,
Second, the vertical wind shear cannot be too large, which can otherwise tilt a tropical cyclone. Third, the environment needs to be moist, which helps thunderstorms to grow and be sustained,
A catastrophic and deadly storm surge is occurring along portions of the Florida Big Bend coast, where inundation could reach as high as 20 feet above ground level, along with destructive waves. There is also a danger of life-threatening storm surge along the remainder of the west coast of the Florida Peninsula,
the National Hurricane Center said in a forecast discussion on Thursday night