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Originally Posted by Blueblaze
How did everyone make out from the "unsurvivable, catastrophic" storm? Our roof was pelted with acorns for almost 10 minutes last night! Oh, the humanity! And I got half an inch of rain in my gauge.
From what I can gather, it hit the big bend as a "4", instantly dropped to a "1", blew across the entire state before we woke, and is now threatening "unsurvivable, catastrophic" flooding in Atlanta, which has never before in the history of the world, experienced a flood.
But there was one fatality. Apparently a woman was driving around in Tampa yesterday during the hurricane and a street sign fell on her, which allowed the "News" to add the word "deadly" to "unsurvivable" and "catastrophic".
Thankfully, there was a silver lining to all this death and destruction. My kids saw the "news" and called to make sure we were OK!
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Three dead so far now, and the town of Steinatchee is almost completely submerged and uninhabitable. It was absolutely unsurvivable and catastrophic at the shore where the eye hit. There has been major damage, as one would always expect there to be, after the hurricane downgraded to a cat 1 almost immediately after touching soil.
We can be relieved that we didn't get more than the usual "really strong wind and rain" for a couple of hours. But it's nothing to laugh at or joke about, when an entire town is having to decide whether to rebuild, or accept the devastating loss of homes, offices, medical facilities, government buildings, stores and all the stuff in them.