Burningbird
Some good news for Georgians impacted by Debby. The Georgia Emergency Management Agency has sent a package containing statewide damage assessments to the President, asking him to make a disaster declaration for Georgia. The value given was $20.7 million, barely passing the required minimum of $20 million for the state. But it does pass, and […]
Well, we lucked out. Debby was slow moving, which wasn’t good. But it degraded over land. Better yet, it grabbed and incorporated a dry air mass that kept most of the heavier overnight rain away. We lost power, so I don’t have an accurate rain measurement from my system. However, according to the University of […]
Previous places I’ve lived have had emergencies that come up quickly and are usually over quickly. I’ve lived through a major ice storm in Grande Isle, Vermont, earthquakes in Washington and California, blizzards in Washington and Massachusetts, even Mount St. Helens, in Yakima, Washington. A hurricane, though, is a different beastie. It’s like living in […]
Debby is a hell of a bad name for a hurricane. I can imagine it on Facebook: Marked safe from Debby Nope. Anyway, we don’t know how it will be. We know Savannah is on the path. We know we will be getting some winds, but not especially strong winds. And we know the biggest […]