I have been in hurricane Helene

@samueltyler2 I am 20 miles west of Asheville. We were hit very hard and many other places were hit even harder. I haven’t seen anything outside my area yet so I’m not sure how to gauge the damage.

@Secretsmile All I can report is what I read and see in the media. Also my son's in laws live in Hendersonville. They were visiting us in NJ and can't get back to their home yet, the roads are said to be impassable. Their neighbors say their house seems okay from the outside, but there is still no power there. The media keeps trying to state how often a storm of this magnitude is said to have occurred, nothing less than once in a hundred years. There is an article in today's NY Times which gives a history of the N Carolina rules and regulations for new buildings. To anyone that argues against government regulations, this article makes the point that some of the relaxed or reversed regulations might have saved more property, and lives. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/climate/north-carolina-homes-helene-building-codes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P04.IaJW.bmAkc4KD_WDV&smid=url-share