It looks as though Florida is more or less cleaned up after Hurricane Helene. All schools were open as of yesterday:
The hurricane made landfall on September 26 and power was almost completely restored by September 30:
As of today, approximately 23,000 of Florida’s 11.4 million electricity customers are out:
I’m in Fort Worth, Texas right now as part of a software/electronics/avionics expert witness project so I haven’t been carefully following hurricane clean-up outside of Florida. The New York Times gives the impression that nothing bad has happened to anyone in North Carolina, for example. The current front page is all about the bad things that the prophets of the NYT expect Donald Trump to do if a second Nakba should occur:
(Note that the Biden-Harris-Whoever-Is-Actually-Running-Things administration recently prosecuted and imprisoned a Republican for a troll tweet that Democrats should vote by SMS. Harvard Law Review: “That Mackey’s primitive meme — sandwiched between thousands of his other tweets — could have fooled American voters into believing that the 2016 election allowed voting by text does indeed strain belief.” See also “Man Who Spread Misinformation on Trump’s Behalf Sentenced to 7 Months” (NYT). Reason notes that the Biden-Harris-Whoever criminal justice apparatus used its discretion to refrain from prosecuting a Democrat for similar behavior and that the law used to imprison the Republican was passed in 1870 “to deter the Ku Klux Klan from trying to prevent black people from voting”.)
The next section down is about how Trump is bad while Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney are good:
If the NYT is our guide, as I hope that it is for all of us, nothing newsworthy is going on with respect to Hurricane Helene damage either in Florida or anywhere else.
Lion parents are going to be dealing with replacing their roof for a long time. The best strategy is to wait for a hurricane to rip off the shingles & use insurance money to pay for a placement than pre-emptively replacing it. Suspect tearing down all the trees increased the roof damage, increasing the insurance payout.