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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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We have lived through many hurricanes, fierce direct hits during our life and careers in N.C.
While we all dissed Jim Cantore from the Weather Channel for hyping and sensationalizing the wind before it was even blowing, we never underestimated the tragic loss of life possibilities in storms of these magnitudes.
There were 6 lives lost at last count. That's absolutely tragic.
Consider Farmers in storms. They have lost tools, trucks, sheep, goat, pigs, cows, full fields of crops.
You never mock Mother Nature until you've been there in the aftermath to help clean out the rubble, feed the newly homeless, feed the 1st responders, hold an isolated frightened elderly person close and see dead animals caused by flooding.
I prayed for no life lost, during this high flood Cat 3 hurricane. Iam very sad to hear of those 6 lost and of their families now making funeral arrangements, while grieving.
Never, ever underestimate hurricanes, flooding and tornadoes just because you lucked out... this time.