RaleighNC

thanks!

We will never sled in Raleigh again.

please do!

Holding out hope:

Come on, Pop. Do your thing!

Yep, growing up in High Point, I remember frigid football games in late October. Where you needed the hot chocolate and a blanket in the stands.

I'm telling you, my Dad is up there making calls.

This is when my Dad started to get excited about weather. Hopefully he's up there pulling some strings for snow.

But we were told straightline winds arent that big a deal...

There is no other place to build there, and Helene's flood was orders of magnitude bigger than any prior flood, so it reached areas that had been assumed to be safe. Much like what is about to happen to Jamaica. And landslides happen where you never think a flood will happen. To say Helene didnt have any "wiped off the map" damage as one poster said, is just wrong. Ask Chimney Rock and Bat Cave and Minneapolis and any number of other communities. When the mountainside comes down, everything is gone. I pray for these poor people in the way of this one.

The real horror may be the flooding that comes down from the mountains into places like Kingston.

Helene showed the trees just become battering rams when the mountainside collapses and goes downriver.

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This will be Andrew + Katrina + Helene among some of the poorest people in the hemisphere.

But those resorts are big concrete buildings. If the worst of the wind and surge were to slam into Kingston....