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lousubcap

There are several forum members who have volunteered with OBR when the Team arrived in their disaster zone.  
You can donate here:
https://volunteers.operationbbqrelief.org/donations/donate-now 

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alaskanassasin

How did Florida make out? The media can’t pause two **** seconds of their political agenda fire hose to report on hurricane damage in Florida. I haven’t seen it reported anywhere.  Asheville and western North Carolina have been destroyed and at least they got a nod from mainstream, so was the majority of the damage in NC? Did Florida make it out ok?

Legume

alaskanassasin said:

How did Florida make out? The media can’t pause two **** seconds of their political agenda fire hose to report on hurricane damage in Florida. I haven’t seen it reported anywhere.  Asheville and western North Carolina have been destroyed and at least they got a nod from mainstream, so was the majority of the damage in NC? Did Florida make it out ok?

I just googled, this seems to have info on the whole path.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-helene-path-florida/

johnmitchell

We are working with the animal foster care provider that we got our two dogs from. She informed us that the response has been fantastic into the Asheville area. So we are waiting for details to donate into the Ashe county community 

lousubcap

@Legume - thanks for the link.

Legume

lousubcap said:

@Legume - thanks for the link.

Easy peasy. I'm not surprised Fox is politicizing it and only talking about a battleground like NC.

JohnInCarolina

alaskanassasin said:

How did Florida make out? The media can’t pause two **** seconds of their political agenda fire hose to report on hurricane damage in Florida. I haven’t seen it reported anywhere.  Asheville and western North Carolina have been destroyed and at least they got a nod from mainstream, so was the majority of the damage in NC? Did Florida make it out ok?

I have seen plenty of coverage on Florida.  Perhaps the problem is where you're getting your news from.  

There was a large segment on 60 minutes last night that focused on hurricane damage in Florida and how the insurance companies are effectively screwing people down there.  Worth a watch.  

alaskanassasin

Legume said:

lousubcap said:

@Legume - thanks for the link.

Easy peasy. I'm not surprised Fox is politicizing it and only talking about a battleground like NC.

I’ve never watched fox or been to their website if that is what you are insinuating, honestly if that’s who you think I am I guess I don’t need to respond to your posts or engage with you. 

alaskanassasin

JohnInCarolina said:

alaskanassasin said:

How did Florida make out? The media can’t pause two **** seconds of their political agenda fire hose to report on hurricane damage in Florida. I haven’t seen it reported anywhere.  Asheville and western North Carolina have been destroyed and at least they got a nod from mainstream, so was the majority of the damage in NC? Did Florida make it out ok?

I have seen plenty of coverage on Florida.  Perhaps the problem is where you're getting your news from.  

There was a large segment on 60 minutes last night that focused on hurricane damage in Florida and how the insurance companies are effectively screwing people down there.  Worth a watch.  

You’re probably right, I haven’t watched 60 minutes since Andy Rooney was on there. I zipped by Reuters and CNN and I did not see any coverage other than NC and I have been following that on wral.com, after reading the article @Legume I have a better idea of what is going on but I guess my bigger point was I don’t feel like you should have to dig through the internet to find information on a giant **** hurricane hitting Florida and destroying everything North and East.   It reminds me of the Maui fires, covered it for a few days and back to he said she said politics. 

JohnInCarolina

alaskanassasin said:

JohnInCarolina said:

alaskanassasin said:

How did Florida make out? The media can’t pause two **** seconds of their political agenda fire hose to report on hurricane damage in Florida. I haven’t seen it reported anywhere.  Asheville and western North Carolina have been destroyed and at least they got a nod from mainstream, so was the majority of the damage in NC? Did Florida make it out ok?

I have seen plenty of coverage on Florida.  Perhaps the problem is where you're getting your news from.  

There was a large segment on 60 minutes last night that focused on hurricane damage in Florida and how the insurance companies are effectively screwing people down there.  Worth a watch.  

You’re probably right, I haven’t watched 60 minutes since Andy Rooney was on there. I zipped by Reuters and CNN and I did not see any coverage other than NC and I have been following that on wral.com, after reading the article @Legume I have a better idea of what is going on but I guess my bigger point was I don’t feel like you should have to dig through the internet to find information on a giant **** hurricane hitting Florida and destroying everything North and East.   It reminds me of the Maui fires, covered it for a few days and back to he said she said politics. 

The focus on NC probably has something to do with the fact that the spot that got it the worst is the mountains of western NC.  That’s not normally a location you’d expect to be ravaged by a hurricane.

Based on what I have seen, the devastation there far exceeds anything in Florida. The maps of the rainfall over a 48 hour period tell the story - for whatever reason, that region got much more than anywhere else, including any part of Florida.

The US media has a pretty short attention span.  I don’t know that this is about some preference for political coverage so much as chasing squirrels.

alaskanassasin

JohnInCarolina said:

alaskanassasin said:

JohnInCarolina said:

alaskanassasin said:

How did Florida make out? The media can’t pause two **** seconds of their political agenda fire hose to report on hurricane damage in Florida. I haven’t seen it reported anywhere.  Asheville and western North Carolina have been destroyed and at least they got a nod from mainstream, so was the majority of the damage in NC? Did Florida make it out ok?

I have seen plenty of coverage on Florida.  Perhaps the problem is where you're getting your news from.  

There was a large segment on 60 minutes last night that focused on hurricane damage in Florida and how the insurance companies are effectively screwing people down there.  Worth a watch.  

You’re probably right, I haven’t watched 60 minutes since Andy Rooney was on there. I zipped by Reuters and CNN and I did not see any coverage other than NC and I have been following that on wral.com, after reading the article @Legume I have a better idea of what is going on but I guess my bigger point was I don’t feel like you should have to dig through the internet to find information on a giant **** hurricane hitting Florida and destroying everything North and East.   It reminds me of the Maui fires, covered it for a few days and back to he said she said politics. 

The focus on NC probably has something to do with the fact that the spot that got it the worst is the mountains of western NC.  That’s not normally a location you’d expect to be ravaged by a hurricane.

Based on what I have seen, the devastation there far exceeds anything in Florida. The maps of the rainfall over a 48 hour period tell the story - for whatever reason, that region got much more than anywhere else, including any part of Florida.

The US media has a pretty short attention span.  I don’t know that this is about some preference for political coverage so much as chasing squirrels.

I love the NC mountains, we plan to retire there, or get a second house some day. One major consideration is on the water, or with a view. We were just at WCU a few weeks ago such a cool area, I don't think those folks could have seen this coming in a million years.

Legume

alaskanassasin said:

Legume said:

lousubcap said:

@Legume - thanks for the link.

Easy peasy. I'm not surprised Fox is politicizing it and only talking about a battleground like NC.

I’ve never watched fox or been to their website if that is what you are insinuating, honestly if that’s who you think I am I guess I don’t need to respond to your posts or engage with you. 

I don't know what you watch or where you get news.  As I said, simple google and I found it all pretty quickly.

I have seen plenty of clips and posts online that Fox and Fox-like people have been amplifying criticizing the current administration for not doing enough, not caring about the good people of NC, playing politics with federal aid, etc. They weren't beefing about Florida, probably because that aid and emergency declarations were approved as the hurricane made landfall and the rest of it caught everyone off guard.

I guess a bad assumption, but not an unreasonable leap.

alaskanassasin

Legume said:

alaskanassasin said:

Legume said:

lousubcap said:

@Legume - thanks for the link.

Easy peasy. I'm not surprised Fox is politicizing it and only talking about a battleground like NC.

I’ve never watched fox or been to their website if that is what you are insinuating, honestly if that’s who you think I am I guess I don’t need to respond to your posts or engage with you. 

I don't know what you watch or where you get news.  As I said, simple google and I found it all pretty quickly.

I have seen plenty of clips and posts online that Fox and Fox-like people have been amplifying criticizing the current administration for not doing enough, not caring about the good people of NC, playing politics with federal aid, etc. They weren't beefing about Florida, probably because that aid and emergency declarations were approved as the hurricane made landfall and the rest of it caught everyone off guard.

I guess a bad assumption, but not an unreasonable leap.

 I guess dude, I have no idea what you are talking about though. I am not a fox, or fox like person, so there is that, also not into politics, I thought that was clear in my initial post.

JohnInCarolina

JohnInCarolina

goddamnit 

Legume

I didn't used to be into politics, always voted, but didn't care for the process and general noise level.

I started caring somewhere between '16 and '20.  Went independent too.

alaskanassasin

Legume said:

I didn't used to be into politics, always voted, but didn't care for the process and general noise level.

I started caring somewhere between '16 and '20.  Went independent too.

 Well I hope that is working out for you, not every post is a nail, hammer.

JohnInCarolina

alaskanassasin said:

Legume said:

alaskanassasin said:

Legume said:

lousubcap said:

@Legume - thanks for the link.

Easy peasy. I'm not surprised Fox is politicizing it and only talking about a battleground like NC.

I’ve never watched fox or been to their website if that is what you are insinuating, honestly if that’s who you think I am I guess I don’t need to respond to your posts or engage with you. 

I don't know what you watch or where you get news.  As I said, simple google and I found it all pretty quickly.

I have seen plenty of clips and posts online that Fox and Fox-like people have been amplifying criticizing the current administration for not doing enough, not caring about the good people of NC, playing politics with federal aid, etc. They weren't beefing about Florida, probably because that aid and emergency declarations were approved as the hurricane made landfall and the rest of it caught everyone off guard.

I guess a bad assumption, but not an unreasonable leap.

 I guess dude, I have no idea what you are talking about though. I am not a fox, or fox like person, so there is that, also not into politics, I thought that was clear in my initial post.

I’ve always assumed you were more of a Joe Rogan type.  News, but with a heavy dose of entertainment, libertarian musings, and dietary supplements.  

Botch

Just saw on CBS tonight that supplies are now being carried into Asheville by... mule trains!    

Buckwoody Egger

devastation starts around Cedar Key (some wind but mostly surge since the eye was 60-80 miles west) then counter-clockwise. horseshoe beach, steinhatchee, keaton beach are examples of massive destruction. that’s just what i have seen. drone videos have been out since the storm hit and very compelling.  

inland florida had to have gotten some because the georgia stuff i am aware of (valdosta, augusta) is really bad. wind damage. power outages.  atlanta had flooding in the places where it usually floods.

not to minimize it for atlanta but seeing the duration of power outages along the path when Atlanta is pretty much back to 100%… it was very bad along the path and east. the big rains ahead of the storm that saturated the ground were from southwest va down to tn, nc and atlanta. people in east ga, nw south carolina won’t have power until late in the week. take a look at georgia power or duke power outage maps. 

Buckwoody Egger

east tn got a fair amount of coverage due to the rooftop hospital evacuation. on the west / nw side of the mountains, once you come over from nc on i-26, the elevation flattens out a bit into a valley (unicoi, erwin) and the flood rose and destroyed bridges. the farmland flooded by the nolichucky is just past where the nolichucky cuts through the mountains on the west/nw side of the valley. 

west of boone nc into tn is more mountainous with similar damage. 

JohnInCarolina

Back to Operation BBQ Relief: if they’re not headed to NC after the roads open up more, I’ll be surprised.

JohnInCarolina

Posted yesterday morning:

fishlessman

alaskanassasin said:

How did Florida make out? The media can’t pause two **** seconds of their political agenda fire hose to report on hurricane damage in Florida. I haven’t seen it reported anywhere.  Asheville and western North Carolina have been destroyed and at least they got a nod from mainstream, so was the majority of the damage in NC? Did Florida make it out ok?

my brother flew down saturday for vacation. staying in tampa and orlando. hasnt called back with any problems, moms just outside tampa. looked like the panhandle took the brunt of it but the storm quickly skipped over it from what i saw, but i didnt follow it much at all til monday morning when the carolinas were getting kicked. people from new england typically head into a hurricane to say they saw one, never want to see one like western carolina though

Foghorn

Folks I know in Orlando and Gainesville had no problems.

alaskanassasin

We had sustained winds around 60mph and 5" of rain.  There are a lot of trees down, roofs tore up, siding damage to houses. We were in an exceptional drought leading up to this which left our ready to harvest crops vulnerable, causing over dry beans to swell and sprout in the pods and corn plants that had cannibalized themselves do to a lack of water to just fall over in the wind. It is going to be a mess but we are very fortunate at the same time

JohnInCarolina

Couple of important updates:



You guys know what to do!

lousubcap

Just got this from OBR:

Feeding Communities After Disasters. Enriching Heroes' Lives Every Day. In 34 days, we provided 1,394,700 meals in response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton. To put this staggering number into perspective: It's 3 times the number of meals we provided in all of 2023 1.6 times the number of meals provided in our record breaking 40 day deployment after Hurricane Ian

shtgunal3

Wow!

caliking

I witnessed them operate in person, when they rolled in after Harvey. 

To say they run an impressive operation (in terms of scale, volume of food, reach) is a gross understatement. I try to support them, whenever I can.