Dolly Parton Makes Massive Donation to Hurricane Helene Relief; How You Can Help

[squirrels_oh_no]

Tennessee native Dolly Parton has pledged a $1 million donation to Hurricane Helene victims, with Parton's businesses in east Tennessee combining efforts to match the donation with their own $1 million contribution. https://t.co/KTYqXmQu1b pic.twitter.com/2T3oLSeqQu
- ABC News (@ABC) October 4, 2024
- Dolly Parton, originally from the mountains of

Comments

[skankyoulater]

I'm still confused. If the hurricane didn't hit Florida until Wednesday night, why is the Carolina flooding being attributed to the hurricane if it happened before that?

I've had a crazy week so I haven't been able to read anything 🥲 pardon my ignorance

[steffi_333]

I’m guessing pre-hurricane weather surrounding the main event. Storms can be enormous - while the eye maybe only be a few miles the weather pattern can span hundreds of miles either side.

That’s purely an educated guess though, idk for sure.

[skankyoulater]

From Florida to South Carolina is around 600 miles or more. It was also in the Gulf. 🤔 For south/mid Florida there wasn't much damage unless you were on the water. Didn't get a chance to read how Tallahassee/ whatever the area directly hit fared bc it happened overnight. When I woke up it had already dissipated.

EDIT: My bad it hit Thursday night. I don't even know what day it is lol

[sassalicious]

We got storms in Indianapolis that are attributed to the hurricane as well. I didn't fully lose power, but it went in/out most of Friday.

[weighty_ghost]

I read that the area got rain, like 10in in the days before. Normally they can handle it but when the hurricane came up and dumped more and they were expecting it to dissipate as they do over land and it didn’t really.

[powerranger]

After an abnormally dry stretch of time, there was a crazy amount of rain leading up to the day the hurricane hit. Between the two it was like half a years worth of rain in the span of a few days. Also a lot of these larger towns are in valleys. Appalachia in general is at higher risk for severe inland flooding due to climate change and that’s exactly what we saw. And will continue to see unfortunately.

[ninasafiri]

Hurricane Helene was both powerful and fast moving due to climate changed warm waters of the Gulf. Once inland, hurricanes lose power and hover over areas while dumping a metric fuckton of rain which causes flooding.

Helene ended up causing much more damage than expected because the path ended up veering eastward toward the Carolinas rather than forecasted path over Atlanta and up thru west Tennessee. The hurricane ended up bringing 20-30 inches of rain over a 12 hour period over southern Appalachia. The area had already received a good amount of rain Wednesday night and water levels were already high when Helene came thru and added a catastrophic level of rain - resulting in flash flooding, mud/land slides, and literal washing away of small towns, houses, and roads.

[powerranger]

It’s crazy how it shifted course like an hour before it was set to hit the blue ridge area. Everyone who spent the coming days preparing for historic flooding they were being warned about, draining nottely and chatuge more etc, ended up just getting a bunch of rain and wind early morning and then it shifted east. But I don’t think any amount of preparing would have been able to stop how catastrophic it was even if it didn’t sadly. But it’s always been such a scary part of weather for me that storms (hurricanes, tornadoes, etc) can change direction so fast. You over prepare and people call you paranoid and you under prepare or prepare for the course it’s currently on and then it changes and hits you and people are like well you should have prepared more

[ninasafiri]

Right?? I went to sleep expecting the storm to hit Friday AM and my city ended up only getting brushed by the outer edges. We still ended up getting some pretty bad flooding in parts, but nowhere near what was expected.

I'm also worried about shifting mindsets regarding preparation. Schools and businesses shut down Friday in preparation for the hurricane and it ended up missing us. Next time, officials will remember Helene and might regard all that prep as unnecessary and call people in - even tho we may not be as lucky.

[squirrels_oh_no]

We got about half the rain we got because of a tropical moisture plume that preceded the storm sucked up by the gulf by the same steering currently that guided Helene right over Asheville. It also provided Helene extra moisture to keep its strength further inland, which caused even more damage.

https://wapo.st/4exxjEC here is a Washington Post gift article (I'm a subscriber) that explains it in more detail, complete with maps and charts.