Hurricane season has arrived....
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It's impossible to have a discussion with someone who is as ignorant on a subject as you are about this.
This hurricane has devastated such a huge swath of America in a way we see in other parts of the world. I hope things improve quickly for those areas and the residents (fellow Americans)
Who have undergone such traumatic effects.
Who have undergone such traumatic effects.
Mark Robinson probably blamed the hurricane on trans kids
The topography of Eastern TE and Western NC really magnified the devastation. Further proof of how infrastructure needs to be hardened as the effects of climate change worsen. Lots of craggy hills and creeks that just can't take these rains. And, keep in mind these are some really, really poor parts of the country. Lots of retirees have moved into some of these areas, but it's mainly poor folks.
It seems like the affected governors would be complaining if they weren't getting the support they need. That being said, I assume if the governors of NC or TE asked for some Chinooks and crews the federal government will say ,"Yes", without asking for something in return.
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Still 50%. Most models meander a much weaker system than Helene before finally kicking it Northeast. Again, it's probably a week out, and lots will change. Either way, we'll update the best we can. Our goal is to minimize your stress level while giving you reasonable expectations of what to expect. Facts not farce.
Still 50%. Most models meander a much weaker system than Helene before finally kicking it Northeast. Again, it's probably a week out, and lots will change. Either way, we'll update the best we can. Our goal is to minimize your stress level while giving you reasonable expectations of what to expect. Facts not farce.
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'We're Gonna Rebuild': Mayor Describes Hopes, Challenges For Treasure Island, Florida, After Helene
$42 billion would purchase 150 million Starlink base units.
There are 127 million households in the country.
In 2021, the Biden Administration passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which included a provision to give $42.5 billion to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program to provide under-served and rural areas with internet access. To date, it has connected nobody.
They swam up there during the flood and now they can't get down.
CALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT!
Tha shield canna take much mure, cap'n... it's gonna break down...
People on the north side of Lake Lure at Rumbling Bald are stuck up there, no open roads.
For anybody: how far into the future do these computer models project in possible TS or hurricane development? A month?
I realize a month out is very difficult but do they give inclinations or hints about what may be coming down road?
I realize a month out is very difficult but do they give inclinations or hints about what may be coming down road?
Forecasters got really excited about Helene about 10 days before Helene was actually in existence. The models predicted something would happen there with an unusually strong signal.
Link?
Here's one...
- High-Speed Internet: The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law invests $65 billion to help ensure that every American has access to affordable, reliable high-speed internet—regardless of their income, race, religion, or zip code. The Affordable Connectivity Program is already saving more than 21 million households up to $30 a month on their internet bills, and more households enroll every day. The Administration is urging Congress to provide additional funding for this program so that low-income seniors, students, and families can continue to receive free and discounted internet service through 2024. In June, the Biden-Harris Administration announced over $40 billion in funding allocations to each U.S. state, territory, and D.C. for affordable, reliable high-speed Internet infrastructure. This funding comes atop $1 billion for middle-mile infrastructure, which will build more than 12,000 miles of fiber across 250 counties, and $2 billion for rural high-speed internet, with 121 awards going to 36 states across the country. In Missouri, Michigan, and Mississippi, construction is already underway on projects funded by the Department of Agriculture’s ReConnect Program. These projects, funded with $28 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will connect 7,100 people, 660 farms, and 149 businesses directly to fiber networks. Commerce has also awarded 148 Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program (TBCP) grants, totaling more than $886 million, and serving over 280 Tribal Governments, which will connect more than 65,000 Tribal households. Together, these investments mirror federal government’s historic investment in rural electrification during the 1930s, when the US connected nearly every home and farm in America to electricity and millions of families and our economy reaped the benefits.
- Modernizing the Grid and Deploying Clean Energy: The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes more than $62 billion in funding at the Department of Energy to advance our clean energy future by investing in clean energy demonstration and deployment projects, developing new technologies, and modernizing our power grid. This includes an investment of over $20 billion to upgrade the nation’s grid—a critical component to achieve President Biden’s goal of delivering 100% clean electricity by 2035. To date, the Department of Energy has announced over $5.5 billion in funding for over 60 projects and provided funding to over 100 states, tribes, and territories to improve the resilience and reliability of America’s grid. The Department of Energy has also announced $7 billion to launch seven regional clean hydrogen hubs to produce clean hydrogen for energy intensive sectors like industrial manufacturing and heavy-duty shipping.
All of this work isn't going to get done overnight. That's why we are in the first 2-3 years of the "infrastructure decade". It's being handled on a state-by-state basis, kind of like Ike's Interstate Highway Plan which went on for decades.
Too bad you tried to make this political.
The GFS model goes 16 days out. The Euro goes 10. Some like to say "so, what" when they see these long term projections.
The GFS model goes 16 days out. The Euro goes 10. Some like to say "so, what" when they see these long term projections.
Yeah, I probably jinxed the entire southeast with my "so what?" commentary.
I don’t ascribe bureaucratic incompetence to partisanship.
Partisans of a particular stripe do seem to favor bureaucracy as a preferred problem solving method.
What’s really stupid is they’ve actually precluded using Starlink, and are going to be paying enormous sums to run cabling into remote places for handfuls of people.
Cabling subject to the kind of landslides and washouts we’re witnessing via Starlink broadcasts from the disaster.
It’s stupid².
Biden does not control the National Guard.
He can issue Disaster declarations that speed the process up, which he has done.
Those are not "troops" that Biden has authority over. They are State Guard units.
Because "Brownie" didn't do "a hell of a job" on it.
Oh, look... Joe's mommy finally let him out of his playpen after his nap and he's catching up on all the posts he missed.
That’s because there was consistency between the gfs model runs and within days the other models started to show similar tracks, with consistency. So far with this, it’s something but how strong and where it will go is all over the map
I like the green model and I hate the red and purple models....
Orange can ESAD, too.
