Hurricane Helene -- Check In!

[hmaria1609]

WTOP Radio has a feature article about Maryland rescue teams who've deployed to affected areas:
https://wtop.com/local/2024/10/rescue-teams-from-maryland-search-through-devastation-in-north-carolina/
Rescue teams from VA and DC have gone too.

[hmaria1609]

Here's the view of the Shenandoah River in Harpers Ferry, WV:
https://wtop.com/local/2024/10/shenandoah-river-swells-over-banks-at-harpers-ferry-no-damage-expected/
Includes short video

[Myword]

I am in St Petersburg supposedly on vacation   Rough. Renting a condo mile from the Gulf and beach
Flooded with 5 inches of water. Rental car soaked and dead for a week before
I was able to get a new one. Fridge out of order power gone8  then internet and most places are closed.But now life is normalizing and people are back to usual
except for widespread devastation along the west gulf towns   total property trashed.
not much to read and sadly in no mood to write  much.  Vacation of hell. TB people are brave and take it in stride. I want to go home

[clean]

With  the new storm in the gulf with the current Cone of Death plotting the Tampa/St Pete area in the center, I hope that you can get out tomorrow.  After that, it will be harder to leave.

Did you have the rental car insurance?  What are they saying about the flooding damage?