I'll never do that again, I swear,
I beg you, do not go out,
Old Andy seemed like he didn't care,
That’s a great relief to us in the community, to take care of those Tennesseans,
Areas that were hit in Idalia and Debby said that this was more extensive than both combined,
Once the eye (of the storm) got to us, that's when everything started to intensify,
Helene travelled over exceptionally warm ocean waters in the Gulf of Mexico,
In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Helene, hundreds of search and rescue missions were conducted by state personnel,
Well, it’s got mud and all that, and everything’s been floating around, and it’s probably about 18 inches (of rain) in the house,
I was in shock. This is the worst I’ve ever seen here,
Evacuations have occurred from the Dam to Island Creek Road. Evacuation sirens are sounding downstream of the dam,
I’m gonna rebuild. That’s all I can do. I own this property here,
We have got to start wondering: is this the new normal? Is it going to happen every year
We have a lot of talk about once-in-a-lifetime storm, but we had one similar last year,
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,
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,
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,