I can't believe the flooding and devastation, especially so far inland. Hardly anyone there will have flood insurance. More than 1000 people are missing.
@YourMomsSecretCrush Nice! I'm an NC State alum, but moved west for work in the late 90s. I usually visit friends in the Carolinas once or twice a year.
@YourMomsSecretCrush king street in Boone had 6" of water, many of the businesses/restaurants on lower streets were flooded/are closed down now for damage. ASU dorms flooded, one of campus buildings sank a bit due to weakening of ground
@wildbill83 yep the videos I seen, king st looked like a river. And river st, lived up to its name. The whole campus is one hill after the other. Everything at the bottom was probably under water. I’m sure it will be awhile before everything goes back to normal. I heard the blue ridge parkway is gonna be closed off for awhile too.
Horrible. The people must feel so devastated and hopeless, especially with the government turning its back on them. 😞 Here is the link to the GoFundMe to help. I am donating as much as I can afford.
The word is that these areas were not helped because the ground contains lots of lithium. Companies want to buy the land but the government also wants to control it. If Trump gets cheated again, you can expect for the area to be condemned and taken by the government.
National guard has been mobilized, they're flying out of Hickory (been flying over my house all day every day since Sunday); trouble is, many places just aren't accessible even by helicopter (no where to land)
I'm fortunate enough to live on a ridge, well above river, so other than downed trees and powerlines all over the place, I was luckier than many
a few pictures of river near me (about 1/2 mile away)
Pretty much every house in any proximity of river got flooded
river is normally 75-100 yards from road, it rose so much that it covered it in many places (hasn't been that high since the 40's)
Zaloo's Canoes (canoe, kayak, tube rental place near me), before and after
Roof of shed/barn of local business (normally 200ft or so from river, and height from ground to roof is about 12-13ft, used to store trucks and equipment; eventually ripped the whole building from concrete foundation and turned it 90°
The bottom of this bridge is normally 35-40ft above river, there's a road underneath it on one side (I've driven truck /w lowboy hauling excavator, dozer, etc. under it many times with plenty of room to spare)
when the storm hit, pretty much everyone in the county lost power and phones; there's still 11,000-14,000 without power. many bridges were washed out, and there are mudslides 20-30ft thick covering many roads, cutting off access to many places
helicopters & planes are having to airdrop supplies in many places & airlift people to safety
To give some perspective, this is same bridge from other side. Edge up river was 10-20 ft from those houses on left. Those two houses on right were flooded in their basements/downstairs, and the only road to that area was covered by 20ft of water for two days
There's a river flow tower above bridge; normal flow rate is like 800-1000 gallons per second, the tower was recording about 200,000 gallons per second before it went offline (was submerged along with everything else)
river normally flows fairly slowly, during flood, water was probably moving 35-40mph; waves were more akin to something you'd see at the ocean or a large lake
Thank GOD this happened now. If trump get elected and puts Project 2025 into action all Federal Disaster Relief and Federal Disaster Insurance will be gone. The National Weather Service too.....so anyone will ever have a warning another storm like this is coming. The day this happened FEMA was sent and Biden declared this entire area...the entire SE. of America a federal disaster area. Under trump the entire southeast of the U,.S. would have been on their own.
Thats tragedy; my position on this and mostly everything remains the same. Lets invest in infrastructure and water management. Instead we ( the u.s. national budget) spends trillions on war investments in other countries. If we improved infrastructure and urban\planning these things wouldnt happen as drastically. And yet America keeps buying tanks.
@Coralmist they probably wont know until the water goes down. the storm took an unexpected turn and no one was prepared because they forecasted a different path. and when it rains like that in the mountains, the water has only one direction to go....... everyone in the valley was screwed. many had no way out. no telling how many bodies they will eventually find.
