Nicholas Goodridge

Auburn Grad, Photographer, Engineer.

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TORNADO IN HERMITAGE TN! @spann @katymorganwx @simpsonwhnt

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@bankertobuilder Why not have the parking ramp continue upside down?

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@GumryWX It's to do with a leg injury that resulted in a clot, nothing to do with vaccination. https://t.co/R76ZZWUot4

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@ryanburge @mattyglesias Being from a rural town in Alabama, the school is also the towns largest employer. Closing the school in one town to consolidate with another town eliminates rural jobs. Is it better for the students? Probably. Is it better for the town that loses their school? Probably not.

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@the_transit_guy It's insanely cool and an amazing feat of engineering that deserves to be commended. The engineers for this have outdone themselves!

At the same time, it shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a public road.

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@antonia_mdprjct Civil Engineers used to have a team of drafts people underneath them. Now, most companies expect the engineer to do the math and the drafting. It just seems like most schools haven't caught up to that expectation, or they are expecting the job to train for the drafting...

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@DrGregLittle2 Recently, a Civil War book sent me down a rabbit hole on local history.
One of the cooler things is the report from a dig on Sand Mtn, AL of pictographs found on the walls of a rock shelter over a creek. The report mentions the symbols being similar to ones found at Moundville.

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@HappyCaveBat @MoundLore That's neat! The dig and report for this site is from the 60s, so I'm sure some of the conclusions are outdated now. But, it was interesting to see some relation to Moundville to a simple rock shelter site located hours away.

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@the_transit_guy Have you seen the cost of TN's "choice" lanes in Nashville...

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@the_transit_guy I largely think Strong Towns is great for small towns. For cities and suburbs though, the time for incremental development was decades ago... Most cities and suburbs are behind on housing and should be acting aggressively to add units of all price points.

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@CarinNajjar It was fine. I'm not sure if the sub was in the hurricane or if they went far enough out to avoid it all together. I seem to remember Dad saying they were already out and just delayed their arrival back until immediately after the hurricane.

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My parents lived in Charleston when Hugo hit and had to move after their duplex was heavily damaged.

Oddly, I was born nine months later... So, maybe I have Hugo to thank for my existence??

[James Spann @spann]

ON THIS DATE IN 1989: Hurricane Hugo made landfall on Isle of Palms, South Carolina as a Category 4 hurricane around midnight (technically landfall was just after midnight on September 22, 1989).

Hugo produced tremendous wind and storm surge damage along the coast and even produced hurricane force wind gusts several hundred miles inland into western North Carolina. In fact, Hugo produced the highest storm tide heights ever recorded along the U.S. East Coast, around 20 feet in Bulls Bay, SC near Cape Romain.

Charleston County was at the epicenter of Hugo's devastation. At McClellanville, near the point of maximum storm surge, shrimp boats were pushed as far as 1/2 mile inland. Commercial and recreational craft damaged other structures as they were carried ashore.

There were at least 39 fatalities during the post-storm recovery phase; more people died in South Carolina in the hurricane's aftermath than during its passage. Among the indirect fatalities were two people killed by house fires started by candles during the storm.

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@CarinNajjar My dad was in the Navy. Just before Hugo hit, Mom evacuated to her parent's house in Alabama. Dad's sub was just off the coast while the storm hit. Then, Dad got leave to help move their stuff back to Alabama. Dad stayed on base after that.

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@NickKrasz_Wx I’m convinced the April 27th morning storms dropped tornadoes that were never mapped, specifically on Sand Mtn after the Marshall complex. Some of the damage is sig. straight line winds, but some like this near Cartersville is suspicious. Would love to see an analysis of this!

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@MatthewCappucci Saw this fog bow on the Art Loeb trail a few years ago!

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@DrBruceConkle @spann @NashSevereWx @NWSNashville I can post the entire minute long video if you want to see it, but it’s not AI.

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Power flashes north of Hermitage! @spann @NashSevereWx @NWSNashville #tspotter

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Rural Alabama subdivision with public roads less than 10’ wide. This subdivision is from the early 80s, and is the only one in the area. The area is still rural, but starting to face pressure from nearby Chattanooga

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@AustinTunnell Was this a by right project, or did you have to go through rezoning? How was the community’s/city’s support if you rezoned? Curious if it’s easier with a nice looking building, or more difficult because it’s atypical development.