Disaster Relief Hurricane Helene
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About us: We survived Hurricane Helene
We live in Henderson County, North Carolina. We are within the hardest-hit region of the U.S.
The questions I have been hearing a lot are why was this so bad, and why weren’t people prepared.
Hurricane Helene was the strongest hurricane (in recorded history) to hit Florida’s Big Bend region (on the eastern edge of the panhandle). It is the deadliest hurricane to hit the United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
The death toll is over 160 so far. We are still finding bodies, and there are still many, many people missing as I write this today, six days after the hurricane hit land.
Asheville, NC has been hit particularly hard.
But why was this region hit so hard?
First, we had a lot of rain before Hurricane Helene even showed up. Depending on the area, we had 7-11 inches of rain in the week before the first storm clouds of the hurricane arrived. This rain saturated the ground and filled ponds and streams.
Then the hurricane arrived. She barreled her way up through the panhandle of Florida, quickly shot through Georgia, and then slowed down and stalled over North Carolina and East Tennessee. And that’s right where we live.
The reason she stalled involves atmospheric pressure conditions that I don’t fully understand, but the result was that this hurricane dropped 20 inches to over 30 inches of rain in some areas… that’s an estimated 40 trillion gallons of rain.
We are in need of some kind individuals to help us get back on our feet.
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dmark44001 –
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