Georgia TV anchor slips at top of North Carolina waterfall, plunges 185 feet to her death

The Washington Post ^ | July 25, 2016 | Jacob Bogage

[Berlin_Freeper]

A Georgia television news anchor, Taylor Terrell of 41NBC in Macon, Ga., was killed Thursday after she was swept over a waterfall in the Pisgah National Forest near Asheville, N.C.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Utah attorney feared dead after falling down Norway waterfall
The waterfall is about 750 feet high,

[golas1964]

Does anyone know if Ms. Terrell was especially negative on Trump in her news coverage?

[Yaelle]

How sad.

[Berlin_Freeper]

I was swept over a waterfall

Drone captures our escape from a flash flood while hiking in Maui, Hawaii

[wardaddy]

Sad

I know the place

I slipped once atop a sinkhole cave opening

Snail Shell cave

Sliding into a 100 foot abyss grabbed last tiny trunk

1979

[OldNewYork]

Horrible.

[Berlin_Freeper]

You can't even news search "waterfall" without finding this:

PHOTOS: ISIS Executes ‘Crossdressing Police Officer’ by Throwing Him Off Waterfall

[dp0622]

wow

[Berlin_Freeper]

http://gothamist.com/2016/07/26/subway_waterfalls_nyc.php

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Forest Service reminds visitors of waterfall dangers after recent fatalities

[Berlin_Freeper]

slipped and went over the 100-foot high Lava Canyon Falls.

[Secret Agent Man]

No one probably warned her of the need to be very careful.

[RegulatorCountry]

Horsepasture river has a series of fairly impressive waterfalls, with Rainbow Falls being the highest at 150 feet. Nearby Whitewater Falls, fed by a different river, is the highest the east, at 811 feet for both Upper and Lower Whitewater Falls, falling from North Carolina into South Carolina.

Several people per year are killed on waterfalls in Transylvania County, NC. There are hundreds of falls in that county. The moss that grows on the rocks is quite slippery. Stay off the rocks if they’re even damp is the best advice I can give.

[Berlin_Freeper]

UPDATE: All of the children have reportedly been rescued

[Berlin_Freeper]

My wife just asked me what is happening.
I told people are falling down waterfalls.
She replied: Pokemon hunting.

[RegulatorCountry]

Why they're called Rainbow Falls:

[Jonty30]

I tend to think that a person really shouldn’t need a warning to be careful.

[Penelope Dreadful]

All these gals seem to be doing OK by this waterfall. Scantily-clad women alert!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csG6MBYsmOU&list=RDcsG6MBYsmOU#t=22

[LibWhacker]

Sad. Anyone who has ever walked around at the top of a waterfall knows the rock can be slippery as snot. It’d be real easy to lose your footing and then take your last slipper-slide ride right off the edge. And it would be real easy to get into trouble before you even realized there was a danger. R.I.P.