Hurricane Helene Brings Catastrophic Flooding to US South

Here are some results on water and sediment testing. High levels of heavy metals, radioactive substance and high acid content were found. Definitely not safe for people to rebuild in certain areas and evacuation is recommended. Reports of black helicopters flying above the river at night and a "sniffer" plane which is a military aircraft that detects radiation was seen in the area where the radiological facility is. The public is being told all is well and any contaminates are within safe levels. A positive ending was given, with enough money for testing and enough microphage organisms to eat the toxins the water and soil can be restored. Also chelation is discussed as a treatment for people. The soil contamination is discussed for nearly the intire US and that needs to be corrected to improve peoples health. But...its the public that will need to foot the bill and do the work since the corp. government doesn't care about the health of people.

 
Innovative Bridge Company, based in Nashville, has installed 40 bridges made with railroad cars for NCDOT since Helene. Each car is 90 feet long and 9 feet wide. Once the supports are in place at either end, a single-span flatcar bridge like the one at Hobson Branch Road takes no time to install, said Aaron Earwood, NCDOT’s state bridge construction engineer. “They put two of them together, weld right down the middle, weld a guardrail to it,” Earwood said. “And we got a bridge in three hours.”

Read more at: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article300876819.html#storylink=cpy

These flatcars are rated at 70 tons, so it looks like most heavy loads are ok. They can join them together for longer spans or wider lanes.


 
Hello,

It has been said that the increase of hurricanes was due to a motion of the Inter-Tropical Zone (if I remember well, at least for Helen and the Valencia flood). I would like to ask if there are any website - featuring some accessible data about the I.T.Z.

It could be a software that one needs to install - like "Google Earth" - but overall I would like to delve a bit in the study of the I.T.Z.: where would one start from here?

Thank you! ⚡
 
Palestine, just a brief search I found the following. Not sure about access for data feeds.

IMERG, the Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM, is a unified satellite precipitation product produced by NASA to estimate surface precipitation over most of the globe. With IMERG, precipitation estimates from the GPM core satellite are used to calibrate other satellite microwave and IR estimates. Then by merging the estimates from multiple satellites, surface precipitation maps can be produced half-hourly at 0.1o horizontal resolution.

 

current data

 

current data

Thank you; I have been stumbling upon this place once, and I checked about it again. It should be it, but I need to register, and then download datasets (I don't know about this step, in term of if I will be able to - who knows) - and then it could be that I will have to use a software for those datasets (for visualization).

I remember that, at the time, I was feeling it too much. It should work. I was wondering if there are other places.

Thank you for having taken the time to check about this. 👍

I don't know if I will proceed. It looks promizing.
 
Its been dry for the past couple of months and all the trees down from the hurricane have added fuel to the forest floor. High winds have spread several wildfires that have been burning. Interstate 26 in Polk County was closed for awhile a few days ago due to that fire. A brief rain that fell this morning was likely not enough to quench the fires.

With much of the Upstate under moderate drought or abnormally dry conditions, wildfires are burning in the region.

The largest fires in the Upstate were the Table Rock Fire, which has burned about 1,000 acres, and the Persimmon Ridge Fire, which has burned more than 200 acres.

The largest fires in Western North Carolina were the Deep Woods and Black Cove fires in Polk County not far from the S.C. border, that forced evacuations and were burning over a combined 4,621 acres with 0% containment as of the evening of March 23.

Stay up to date with the location and size of fires with our South Carolina wildfire and smoke map. The map is interactive, is updated hourly and provides detailed information on each fire.


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Some more updated info and pictures in the article below

The Table Rock Fire was sparked last Friday (March 21, 2025) by the “deliberate negligence” of several teenage hikers, according to the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO).

“Four teenagers have been questioned, and charges are pending,” a statement from the sheriff’s office noted.

The Persimmon Ridge Fire started on Saturday (March 22, 2025) in the Mountain Bridge Wilderness Area between Caesars Head State Park and Jones Gap State Park. It was sparked by an escaped campfire.

 
Fires continue throughout the region. Could use a really good soaking rain. Yesterday smoke from these fires was everywhere.

Wildfires have been burning in Western North Carolina since March 19, leading to states of emergency, burned homes and evacuations.

The fires have continued to grow, covering thousands of acres, as weather conditions have been favorable for the spread of the blazes.
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Reporter Sarah Honosky checked in with the National Weather Service.

Facing dry conditions, gusty winds and low humidity, National Weather Service meteorologists say they do not expect relief until potentially this weekend and early next week.

NWS Meteorologist Ashley Rehnberg, out of the Greenville-Spartanburg office, said there is a chance of rain in the forecast beginning the night of March 29, into the next day, and again on March 31.

"It might help a little bit, but we're not sure if that's going to be enough to actually put the fires out," she said of the wildfires burning in the region.

 
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