AI6YR BenSep 30, 2024
Hmm, this is interesting, wonder what is ON TOP of this building in Steinhatchee. Must have floated over there during the surge. Also hard to tell if that building is upright or flattened. I often see these classified as "intact" by people looking at them remotely, then they find out those buildings are collapsed. #Steinhatchee #FLwx #Helene #disaster
Show threadAI6YR BenSep 30, 2024
Steinhatchee. This looks... broken. I hope no one was in there during the surge. #Steinhatchee #FLwx
Show threadAI6YR Ben
Before/after, definitely surge shifted everything. (despite bad original image, you can see everything moved) #Steinhatchee #FLwx #helene
Sep 30, 2024 at 3:12amWeb
Show threadAI6YR BenSep 30, 2024
Ooh, there's a great reference object for sizing! 55 gallon blue barrel. #RemoteImaging
Show threadAI6YR BenSep 30, 2024
I guess these folks already hard at work taking all the destroyed stuff out of their house and putting it in a pile. (don't want it in your house -- mold city). #Steinhatchee #FLwx
Show threadAI6YR BenSep 30, 2024
It's bad, but I have seen much, much worse (had related possible body locations to folks in the past, and there was a car in a pond which ended up being occupied... USAR probably would have eventually found all of them of course). I suspect the number of times this area has been hit, quite a few of the homes that were destroyed in the last hurricanes were upgraded.
Show threadHisstogrammaSep 30, 2024
@ai6yr I have heard though that for insurance reasons to hold off on doing that — that they need to see the damage. Considering this level of disaster, I am not sure that still holds or makes sense.
Show threadT. J. BombadilSep 30, 2024
@ai6yr That was the big thing everyone here (Colorado) learned in the 2013 floods. Repair the roads and whatnot later, get the stuff out of your basement NOW. And cut the drywall off at knee height as well. A lot of people switched to plastic bins for their basement stuff after that one.
Show threadmizblueprintSep 30, 2024
@c_dan4th @ai6yr
I designed a building to be "flood proof" once. All split face concrete block, windows above the 100 year flood line, gussets at the doors for flood gates to slide in, a horizontal drywall joint with chair rail over it so drywall below the flood line could be stripped off should any water ever leak in. No wood, electrical, or any essential utility below the flood line.
Show threadVissSep 30, 2024
@ai6yr is this all google maps?
Show threadAI6YR BenSep 30, 2024
@Viss https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/helene/index.html
Hurricane HELENE Imagery