Hurricane Helene's youngest victims: Twin
babies who died alongside their mother
are named among the more than 200 dead
as questions are raised over unheeded warnings
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Taryn Pedler
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
10/4/2024 5:59:41 AM
Twin babies who died alongside their mother have been named as Hurricane Helene's youngest victims as questions are raised over unheeded warnings.
The death toll from the hurricane has now surpassed 200 as rescuers continue to search for survivors from the storm - the deadliest since Katrina in 2005 which killed more than 1,800 people - that has battered the southeast.
But in a devastating update, two newborn boys and their mother were found crushed to death after a large tree crashed through their Georgia home roof.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
anniebc 10/4/2024 7:10:57 AM (No. 1807213)
I can see it being hard to evacuate with two very young babies. You're barely settled in. You never know with these storms, and people don't trust the weather people or the media. Storms are often overhyped, and deciding to follow evacuation orders from a storm can be a tough decision. I'm not sure anyone predicted this amount of devastation.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Catherine 10/4/2024 7:45:12 AM (No. 1807232)
The weather people now hype everything. They invented heat index to make it sound worse than it is. If a thunderstorm is coming, I've seen stations that list what time it will reach certain streets. Just rain! There have been many false alarms about hurricanes and people do doubt a lot of these warnings. My sympathies to the family of the lost little babies and their mother.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
felixcat 10/4/2024 8:33:11 AM (No. 1807270)
Growing up in South Florida in the 1970s and 80s - they always told people living in mobile homes to get out when a hurricane was approaching. Could no one else in her family have helped and the babies move to a more secure location?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
starsNstripes 10/4/2024 8:35:23 AM (No. 1807275)
"Unheeded Warnings"??!! What do you expect given the 24x7x365 global warming, the sky is falling, chicken little MSM? We are inundated with gobbledygook reporting on everything. Everything is positioned as life or death.
The old adage applies, "If everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority."
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 10/4/2024 8:52:29 AM (No. 1807283)
FTA:Warnings blared phrases such as 'URGENT,' 'life threatening' and 'catastrophic' describing the impending perils
We've gotten the same warnings for a Springtime thundershower. It's not surprising that people do not believe the hype.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
skacmar 10/4/2024 9:01:35 AM (No. 1807291)
You can warn about the hurricane all you want and people can evacuate. Problem with Helene is that normally hurricane safe areas (besides rain and wind) like GEORGIA and western SC & NC mountains don't usually get the annihilated by hurricanes. This time they got the brunt of the storm and all of the rain running down the mountains washed away everything in it's path huge floods anywhere the water could settle or pool.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 10/4/2024 9:14:56 AM (No. 1807306)
I wonder why so many did not evacuate?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Kate318 10/4/2024 9:41:24 AM (No. 1807336)
How fricking DARE you, DM? The government creates a “situation” and it’s the people’s fault that they died?? This rag isn’t even worth lining the birdcage.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
red1066 10/4/2024 9:47:36 AM (No. 1807342)
I think Fox weather had 14 people stationed between the Big Bend of Florida and Atlanta. Fourteen people! I'm sure the Weather Channel had almost as many.
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My heart goes out to that strong mother who died protecting her babies. Who would think you'd need to evacuate when you're 500 miles away from landfall? Especially when the media creates hype all the time and politicians go overboard so they don't get accused of not doing enough?
I used to live in Austin, and when hurricanes hit Galveston, people sought refuge in Austin. Sometimes we never got anything more than a drizzle, and that's only 200 miles away. I wouldn't have left with two newborns by myself if I was in her position.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Right Time 10/4/2024 10:37:07 AM (No. 1807386)
What's this crap about "unheeded warnings"?? Is it because the victims likely are Trump voters?
I don't remember claims of unheeded warnings about the (minority Democrat) New Orleans hurricane victims of Rita. There they had a city with public transportation to get out of the danger path if they "heeded" the warnings.
I'm sure that hundreds of hurricane victims in western NC (like the mother with 2 newborns) had no options except to try to ride it out.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
chagrined 10/4/2024 10:58:23 AM (No. 1807394)
You're correct, poster #11! If this hurricane had hit New Orleans, or any other big demonrat run city, the feds would've been there with bells on. The dregs of society who run the government and enemedia are letting all the Trump supporters know - "You will be punished for your temerity".
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mifla 10/5/2024 4:00:19 AM (No. 1807772)
Part of the problem is that the weather "experts" forecasted the hurricane to be further west than it ended up.
NC residents found out at the last minute that they were in the path of the storm.
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