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    Hurricane Helene

    I hope everyone is OK. Flowers, Happy Hiker, would you please let us know when you get a chance?

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    Heck, we’re even getting wind from it in the Chixgo area. Power out in Indiana!

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    Prayers that everyone is safe.
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    It barely had any effect in the middle of the state in my area. Some rain and wind, so some trees were down and minor flooding. It was crazy watching surrounding areas get hit with huge storm bands.
    There are lots of Facebook pictures of large areas totally washed away. Tampa and Ft Myers had a repeat of the Hurricane IAN effects, which happened two years ago. Being in the middle, there were many electrical trucks etc. staged here ready to go where needed.

    i cannot imagine how people in the hardest hit areas will ever get house insurance. And so many people were in grave danger of harm or death. Some of the storm surges in Cedar Key and Steinhatchie were over 15 feet. But it looks like even on land, the flooding was horrible as it tore through Georgia, Tenn., and the Carolinas. At least 50 dead. It was so sad to watch.

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    It looks like there could be another storm in the Gulf in the next week or so.

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    World Central Kitchen is active in FL so if you want to donate… I just did.

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    What alarms me regarding Helene is that Asheville - seriously inland and at over 5K in altitude - was devastated from Helene. This is a new one for so far inland. Are any of us really safe from climate change? Will any of us be able to afford homeowner's or renters insurance in a few years?

    The climate, it be a-changin'. Rob

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    They had a ton of rain a few days before Helene. So they were screwed.

    And people wonder why I live in the Great Lakes region. My area doesn’t flood. No hurricanes. Yes, we get tornadoes, but they don’t wipe out a region’s infrastructure like a hurricane does. Winters are definitely milder.

    And the best part: we have water - the Great Lakes.

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    And now another hurricane, Milton, is expected to hit somewhere in the Tampa area Wednesday night, likely as a Cat 3. That's just about the last thing they need right now.

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