Greetings from the great Helene wipeout

[Techwright]

Marking myself as safe from hurricane Helene. 🙂 We think the eye went right over us. Hard to tell because all power failed at 5:20 am, and we didn't get a sense of that quiet that storm eyes are known for. As I write via phone, most of the western half of my state is without power. I realize to a coastal area used to bad hurricanes this is probably nothing, but it is a different story 250 miles inland. We're used to getting tropical storm remnants this far inland, but we've never seen amounts of water, wind, flash floods, and outages like this, and the area just isn't prepared to a level like our coastal cities are.  I am hearing there are many deaths, tragically.

 

  I'm hearing the mountains close to Asheville, North Carolina are even worse.  The village of Chimney Rock, for example was apparently wiped out ( The Last of the Mohicans movie was shot nearby), Lake Lure, where Dirty Dancing was shot, is so saturated they're fearing the dam will break.  I know many other states are hit, I just have limited connectivity at the moment and don't know their details.

 

Power restoration time here is anyone's guess.  The closest we've ever seen to this was a great ice storm in 2005 that knocked out all power, and it took up to 10 days to restore all power to the state. 

 

Hoping to be back up to full annoy-the-forums mode quickly.  I am certainly not the only  player in this mess, so keep your friends in mind as they recover.

 

I'm now seriously thinking the next big game event threat should be environmental, and supers have to help out during and after the storm, including rescues and dealing with gang looting.

 

[High_Beam]

Be safe.