Apologies for not answering during the stream, for some reason I was still staring at the 'Waiting for Sacred Cow Shipyards' screen on my browser. :( Yes, I've been here since the very early days and have commented on videos and in stream here and there. I've donated a few times and figured since you picked Dolly last time my money was in good hands regardless. So I read the quick description (Vets as vets :) ) and "jumped the gun".
Yeah, any time a hurricane wanders into the Appalachians, it's bad news for someone. I was in Richmond in '04 when Gaston rolled through. Since Virginia gets a big named storm roughly every 3 years, and Richmond is built at a sort of choke point of the James River, the city's infrastructure was built to handle the occasional dangerously-swollen river flood. There's a huge set of floodwalls like house-sized Jersey barriers made of reinforced concrete with massive rolling steel security doors to block the roads, like something out of Brigador. When the river floods, they do an excellent job of keeping the river out. Unfortunately, TS Gaston pretty much followed the James downstream until it got to Richmond and parked. It then dumped most of its remaining rain on the city, where the floodwalls caused almost as much of a problem as they solved. They kept the river from power-washing a third of the city out of existence, but they trapped so much water in the lowest part of the city that it put streetlamps underwater. And, since the river was still raging for days afterward, they couldn't open the floodwall gates to drain the new lake. The city eventually rebuilt, but it took every bit of a decade, and that was for the capital city. God only knows how long places like Asheville will be dealing with the damage from Helene.
Apologies for not answering during the stream, for some reason I was still staring at the 'Waiting for Sacred Cow Shipyards' screen on my browser. :(
Yes, I've been here since the very early days and have commented on videos and in stream here and there. I've donated a few times and figured since you picked Dolly last time my money was in good hands regardless. So I read the quick description (Vets as vets :) ) and "jumped the gun".
And now I should apologize for not remembering your screenname. Sorry about the trouble with the livestream, and thank you again for your donation!
Yeah, any time a hurricane wanders into the Appalachians, it's bad news for someone. I was in Richmond in '04 when Gaston rolled through.
Since Virginia gets a big named storm roughly every 3 years, and Richmond is built at a sort of choke point of the James River, the city's infrastructure was built to handle the occasional dangerously-swollen river flood. There's a huge set of floodwalls like house-sized Jersey barriers made of reinforced concrete with massive rolling steel security doors to block the roads, like something out of Brigador. When the river floods, they do an excellent job of keeping the river out.
Unfortunately, TS Gaston pretty much followed the James downstream until it got to Richmond and parked. It then dumped most of its remaining rain on the city, where the floodwalls caused almost as much of a problem as they solved. They kept the river from power-washing a third of the city out of existence, but they trapped so much water in the lowest part of the city that it put streetlamps underwater. And, since the river was still raging for days afterward, they couldn't open the floodwall gates to drain the new lake.
The city eventually rebuilt, but it took every bit of a decade, and that was for the capital city. God only knows how long places like Asheville will be dealing with the damage from Helene.
Amusingly, the Richmond flood mitigation system came up in the Posleen series, as a great way of funneling zerg-like aggressors to their doom.
Am I the only one who thinks snail speech (from ANOTHER DIMENSION) is just a lisp?...
(Alternatively, you could read it all as the G-Man).