It was a bad disaster. I was scheduled to be there, but took a look at the NOAA rainfall map the night before and canceled my trip.
Calling it unthinkable is really overselling it though. Mountain towns and roads flood when it rains a lot. If you search past years google search results for Chimney Rock, it floods with 3" to 5" inches of rain. The town is just a few feet above water level - I've walked along the river.
I think they mean more literally historical, in the sense that like this is when people will remember becoming aware that inland mountain ranges are catastrophically vulnerable to hurricanes now.
> Meteorologist Ben Noll said that the level of moisture transported to western North Carolina is more than 1.5 times greater than any event in the historical record for the region.
This is a little more than "mountains flood when it rains" it seems.
No, Helene's ACE will remain unchanged until the post-season analysis of both storms. It's a measure of the storm's duration and intensity; Helene was a rather short-lived storm with the intense period only occuring for a short time compared to Beryl which is why it has such a lower value than Beryl.
What did people expect when they built in floodplains with no flood insurance? My question is why taxpayers have to keep subsidizing the cleanup and rebuilding in these areas.
It was a bad disaster. I was scheduled to be there, but took a look at the NOAA rainfall map the night before and canceled my trip.
Calling it unthinkable is really overselling it though. Mountain towns and roads flood when it rains a lot. If you search past years google search results for Chimney Rock, it floods with 3" to 5" inches of rain. The town is just a few feet above water level - I've walked along the river.
So you're saying it's a region already especially vulnerable to flooding. How is that supposed to be better?
They're not saying it was better, they're saying it was foreseeable.
I think they mean more literally historical, in the sense that like this is when people will remember becoming aware that inland mountain ranges are catastrophically vulnerable to hurricanes now.
> Meteorologist Ben Noll said that the level of moisture transported to western North Carolina is more than 1.5 times greater than any event in the historical record for the region.
This is a little more than "mountains flood when it rains" it seems.
Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) https://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/
The figure in parentheses is ACE, averaged over 30 years up to and including September 30th: 77.8 (94.1)
There's more detail here, including a helpful chart: https://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/index.php?loc=...
EDIT: Interesting that Beryl had more ACE than Helene. I wonder if that figure will change as the effects from Helene are investigated further?
No, Helene's ACE will remain unchanged until the post-season analysis of both storms. It's a measure of the storm's duration and intensity; Helene was a rather short-lived storm with the intense period only occuring for a short time compared to Beryl which is why it has such a lower value than Beryl.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accumulated_cyclone_energy
What did people expect when they built in floodplains with no flood insurance? My question is why taxpayers have to keep subsidizing the cleanup and rebuilding in these areas.
think of it as your taxes and their taxes both paying into a national disaster insurance scheme run by the government.
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