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Georgia braces for Hurricane Helene
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9/27/2024
Helene will slam into the Florida coast as an extremely fast-moving storm, continuing into Georgia while still a hurricane.
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Our team coverage continues now with meteorologist and storm chaser Tony Lavex.
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He joins us live from Cordell, Georgia.
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And you know what, Tony, I was just talking to our AccuWeather experts right behind me,
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including AccuWeather hurricane expert Dan DePodemon, where you're located in Cordell,
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Georgia, pretty far inland.
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At the time that the eye passes near you, either Category 1 or Category 2 hurricane,
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that's not a statement that's made much with these kind of storms.
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Yeah, we mentioned in the last hit, I actually measured on the map, we were 137 miles inland,
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straight as the crow flies from Apalachicola, Florida.
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That gives you an idea of how fast and how powerful this hurricane is going to be as
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it rolls onshore, as likely that Cat 4, and it's still going to maintain that hurricane
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intensity over 100 miles inland.
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And that is why we're here in Georgia, because we think Georgia is going to see some significant
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impacts from this, not just from the rains that typically occur when you get a hurricane
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that moves that far inland, but we're still talking hurricane-force winds.
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And yes, folks, we could be talking about gusts well over 100 miles per hour here in
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Cordell.
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We were rucking around today, getting set up here as we drove from the coast up here.
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We made that hundred-and-some-odd-mile journey.
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And we're not the only ones stationed here, folks.
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We've been talking about this for days, how we were going to see the impacts here in Georgia.
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We've got power crews from all over the region, not only stationed down in Florida, but they
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are stationed here in Cordell as well.
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We've got a dozen or so trucks in our vicinity staying at the various hotels here along I-75
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and Cordell, all of them ready to jump into action as soon as safety permits, as that
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hurricane will work its way up through here, likely taking down trees and knocking out
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power.
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So we're going to be kind of holding our breath to see how long we can maintain some of that
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power here today.
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If you were with us last hour, we were in pretty calm conditions.
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We had cloudy skies.
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Now we've got a little bit of a rain.
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We're right on kind of the eastern, northeastern edge of kind of where some of that precipitation
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shield is starting to come in.
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I think once it starts to fill in in this area, I think we're going to stay in rain
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for the remainder of the evening into the overnight hours.
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And of course, then we'll start to see conditions really deteriorate, probably as we get later
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into the evening.
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I would assume probably in the 10 to 11 o'clock range is when we're going to start to see
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this tropical storm force gusts get up into this area.
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And then, of course, as we get after midnight, that's when we're going to start to see the
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hurricane conditions really persist.
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Behind me here is I-75.
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This is going to be a heavy traveled area that is going to be dealing with a lot of
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those issues.
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We've driven up and down this route numerous times over the years.
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There are a lot of trees.
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There are a lot of things that likely can create hazards there on the interstate.
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We talked about this incessantly, how we were going to be dealing with this all after dark.
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We are going to stay put here through the duration of the storm with all the trees and
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the likely hazards, Bernie, all that coming down in the area roads.
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Fortunately, though, for us, it looks like as we get into daylight, as fast as this hurricane
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is moving with that dry air that's going to work its way on the south side of it, we could
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be almost in sunny skies getting up tomorrow morning as we're going to wake up to see what
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is left behind here.
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And I'm afraid what you're going to wake up to tomorrow morning when you wake up, Tony,
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and you look around and you look at the damage, it's like, holy cow, what just happened?
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But we've been warning you about this possibility now for days.
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