What exactly are you doing to assist those in our southeast U.S. in their time of need, instead of griping about OUR Vice President Harris? If you must know, I’m in Asheville, North Carolina, today volunteering assistance
This is a frequent harasser (this is his 3rd message to me this morning) and I block most of his comments as they are not constructive. However, I'm letting this one through because he has issued a challenge not just to me but to all of us. I wrote a HUGE check to the Salvation Army's Helene Relief Fund Saturday. I would like to request that all my readers to the same to the extent they are able: https://give.helpsalvationarmy.org/give/166081/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=USNDisaster&c_src2=disasterModule
BEFORE the disaster began, I worked day and night to get the message out that "catastrophic" flooding was likely in the region and advised proactive evacuation. You can easily verify that for yourself by paging down and reading my posts. This was in spite of the NWS forecasting, "Heavy rainfall will likely result in locally considerable flash and urban flooding across portions of Florida, with isolated flash and urban flooding possible across the Southeast, Southern Appalachians, and the Tennessee Valley Wednesday through Friday. Minor to isolated moderate river flooding will be possible." A great understatement of the threat.
As Biden was at the beach (again) over the weekend and Harris was in the West at a fundraiser, I will continue to criticize them until they respond appropriately to this disaster!
More heavy rain (snow in the mountains) forecast. Rains have already begun over the southern two-thirds of the state. See 3:15pm radar below. In addition, there is small risk of a tornado, especially tomorrow morning, in coastal areas of Southern California, shown in dark green.
The title of this essay is from a press release that indirectly "blames the victim." The author is Sedgwick County Emergency Management regarding a fatal tornado that occurred just north of Wichita at 1:14 this morning. The tornado was rated EF-2 ("strong") intensity. I believe the wording is unfortunate as discussed below. Photo: KAKE.com. Note that with a basement, as little as seconds to dash down the stairs might have been sufficient to avoid injury. In what has increasingly and unfortunately become the norm in tornado situations, no NWS tornado warning was issued even though: Rotation was depicted on radar Radar shows lofted debris People from outside the NWS are observing tornadoes and bringing them to NWS's and the public's attention. I want to be clear: the tornado formed practically on top of the home and there was probably no way to have warned in time to help the man killed. But there is absolutely no reason a tornado warning could not have bee...
[Note, no more updates to this story as of 1pm Tuesday; there is an updated story here .] ...so said the chief executive of Kerr County, Texas, Rob Kelly. He went on to say, "We had no reason to believe that this was going to be anything like what's happened here, none whatsoever." I'm sorry to report that he is probably correct. The flood was underforecast and the "emergency" warnings were later than they could have been. In fairness, as of the time of this update, 1:30pm Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey has determined this was the highest crest on the Guadalupe River at Hunt, Texas, since the river gauge was installed. As of 1p Tuesday , 105 have been confirmed to have been killed and "dozens" are missing. Those numbers imply a total death toll near 130. This past autumn, Hurricane Helene killed 249. In 2011, a single tornado killed 161 in Joplin. We must stop these mega-disasters! This is another tragic example of why America desperately n...
What exactly are you doing to assist those in our southeast U.S. in their time of need, instead of griping about OUR Vice President Harris?
ReplyDeleteIf you must know, I’m in Asheville, North Carolina, today volunteering assistance
This is a frequent harasser (this is his 3rd message to me this morning) and I block most of his comments as they are not constructive. However, I'm letting this one through because he has issued a challenge not just to me but to all of us. I wrote a HUGE check to the Salvation Army's Helene Relief Fund Saturday. I would like to request that all my readers to the same to the extent they are able: https://give.helpsalvationarmy.org/give/166081/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=USNDisaster&c_src2=disasterModule
DeleteBEFORE the disaster began, I worked day and night to get the message out that "catastrophic" flooding was likely in the region and advised proactive evacuation. You can easily verify that for yourself by paging down and reading my posts. This was in spite of the NWS forecasting, "Heavy rainfall will likely
result in locally considerable flash and urban flooding across
portions of Florida, with isolated flash and urban flooding
possible across the Southeast, Southern Appalachians, and the
Tennessee Valley Wednesday through Friday. Minor to isolated
moderate river flooding will be possible." A great understatement of the threat.
As Biden was at the beach (again) over the weekend and Harris was in the West at a fundraiser, I will continue to criticize them until they respond appropriately to this disaster!