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Wow! what a coincidence! ... it happens. It reminded me of the earthquake that was felt in Mexico City on September 19 of 2017 which coincided with the date of the earthquake that happened in 1985.

Hurricane Helene (1958)-Wikipedia
Hurricane Helene was the most intense tropical cyclone of the 1958 Atlantic hurricane season. The eighth tropical storm and fourth hurricane of the year, Helene was formed from a tropical wave east of the Lesser Antilles . Moving steadily westward, the storm slowly intensified, attaining hurricane strength on September 26. As conditions became increasingly favorable for tropical cyclone development, Helene began to rapidly intensify. Nearing the United States East Coast, the hurricane quickly attained Category 4 intensity on September 26, before it subsequently reached its peak intensity with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph (240 km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 930 mbar (930 hPa; 27 inHg). The intense hurricane came within 10 mi (16 km) of Cape Fear, North Carolina before recurving out to sea. Accelerating Helene gradually weakened, and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone as it passed over Newfoundland on September 29. Helene's extratropical remnants traversed eastwards across the Atlantic Ocean before dissipating near Great Britain on October 4.
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Surge in this area only ended up being about half of what was claimed, which while notable, was not quite as catastrophic as it was cracked up to be. Nonetheless, no one is getting out to the coast today without a jacked up 4x4 or a boat. Many houses on the beach that are not on stilts will be a total loss. I suffered no damage and didn't even lose power with this one. The Madden-Julian Oscillation is trying to bring another storm into the general vicinity in about 2 weeks, so now I wait for the next one.
 
Lots of flooding in western NC, I've seen some pretty bad shots in different areas. Luckily nothing out where we're at. Yeah, seems like it was overhyped again at least as far as the storm surge and wind forecast. It became a tropical storm pretty quickly after making landfall.
 
Brief update on what is happening in Guerrero, Mexico. Apparently hurricane john has lost strength and is again a tropical storm, although initially it had already degraded from a category 2 hurricane to a tropical storm, then it gained strength and became a hurricane again.
At this moment, according to reports it is moving away to the north and the rains have diminished, however the damages are substantial, the city where I live has been quite affected, many houses were lost and there are still no exact figures of the human lives that were lost, but the scenario is very sad. I am safe luckily, but the shock of seeing again so much damage after the hurricane that hit less than a year ago is strong.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1838635584077644259

https://twitter.com/x/status/1839432278575038875


The image is very near from my house:
 

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