Axios - Helene's brutal rout of western North and South Carolina left everybody there physically and emotionally drained — including the forecasters who spent the week trying to warn people of its imminent destruction...Forecasts for Helene were remarkably accurate all week. But many people in this region — some 500-plus miles from where the storm made landfall in Florida — may have found them hard to believe.
"As meteorologists, we always want to get the forecast right," the National Weather Service's Greenville-Spartanburg office wrote in a rare show of emotion from data-driven forecasters."This is one we wanted to get wrong. This is the worst event in our office's history."
- 300 roads remained closed in western North Carolina as of yesterday.
- More than 50 of those were major roads, including Interstate 40. "We cannot say this enough: DO NOT TRAVEL IN OR TO WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA," the N.C. Department of Transportation posted.
- This morning, power is out for 1.8 million homes and businesses in Georgia and the Carolinas. See a map.
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I am still waiting for southern states to get serious about the cxlimate and start to phase out fossil fuels. If they do not, they should not get hurricane relief.b They need to take some responsibiliity for thier actions.
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