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    Major Hurricane Helene

    in Southeastern States

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    20 hours ago, dogwoods said:

    Hey y'all, wondering if I could get some help.  I normally only ever lurk here during winter to see if there's snow brewing... but am always disappointed because I live in the Triangle, and there's a snow dome over Raleigh.  :)  But figured I'd post today on the off chance that it might lead to something.  

    Here's the deal.  I have family up in the mountains of Avery County, NC.  My sister volunteers for the Linville Rescue Squad.  It's an all-volunteer group and she has been doing search and rescue work with them for a few years.  They have been working around the clock since the hurricane hit and giving it their all.  My sister didn't even shower for like six days, has been sleeping on the floor, going without hot meals, hiking around the woods in Avery county doing search and rescue... you get the drift.  And the whole squad is just full of really decent people that are doing this, unpaid as usual. 

    Anyway, randomly before Helene hit, the Rescue Squad got selected to be a finalist in this contest through Land Rover.  If they win, they could get a new vehicle and $25,000.  That's CRAZY money for a volunteer squad that usually exists off of community donations.

    Here's the link to the rescue squad:

    https://linville-centralrescue.org/

    And to the contest:

    https://www.landroverusa.com/experiences/events-and-sponsorships/defender-service-awards/vote/search-and-rescue.html

    The only way they'll win is if people vote for them.  First, I'm hoping everyone here will vote.  But also -- I'm trying to get some more visibility for the contest through media outlets.  Like this is such an easy way for people to help out, just click and vote in this contest, no donation or anything -- and it could go such a long way to help these guys and the people they serve.  Think how much of financial and emotional impact it would have after everything they've been through.  So I'm sort of trying to be a one-man PR team to help them out. 

    What would be amazing is if somebody like Brad Panovich or Ethan Clark could share this information on their facebook page since they have such a wide reach.  I think the North Carolina Weather Authority has like 568k followers on Facebook, Brad has 374k followers... you get my drift.  BIG reach.  Does anyone know these guys?  I tried to send them a facebook message, but I'm just a random person shouting from the void out of a million messages they're already receiving, and they probably thought I was just doing PR for Land Rover.  (Unfortunately it does have free PR for Land Rover but I don't care about that other than the squad will get a free vehicle!)

    So anyway, if y'all have any connections, please consider helping out and pass this message along.  It's a really decent cause.  Many, many thanks.  

    Voted!

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    September 2024 obs

    in Southeastern States

    Posted

    I saw 2 forecasts for my area. One on the weather channel which called for a 90% chance of thunderstorms this morning and 1 to 2 inches and the other from NOAA which called for a 30% chance. Weather channel was spot on and so far we have had .95".

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    August 2024 obs

    in Southeastern States

    Posted

    No significant rain in the last 16 days. Yards are starting to brown once again. I actually had a tree die from all the rain we had during the 1st 2 weeks of this month. Luckily it is a smallish tree that I can cut down but that will have to wait until it cools down significantly. Hope we can get some rain tomorrow. 

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