A major national sexual abuse hotline experienced a massive surge in callers Thursday as Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh took turns testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee .

The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network estimated calls to its National Sexual Assault Hotline were 147 percent higher than usual, the organization tweeted Thursday. Wait times for callers were unprecedented, RAINN added.

Upticks in calls to crisis hotlines are common when sexual assault is in the news, RAINN told Time, but Thursdays surge was huge. Calls to the hotline following the release of the Access Hollywood tape in which then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump bragged about grabbing women by the pussy, for example, jumped 33 percent .

RAINN said the hotlines calls have increased 46 percent since Blaseys allegations were made public earlier this month , and 57 percent since a second woman, Deborah Ramirez, came forward in a New Yorker article published Sunday describing how Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were in college.

Blaseys gut-wrenching account of being attacked when she and Kavanaugh were high school students compelled many people to share their own assault experiences in ways both public and private.

Need help? Visit RAINNs National Sexual Assault Online Hotline or the National Sexual Violence Resource Centers website .