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Posted on 09/27/2024 6:08:58 PM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
If you’re thinking of traveling to or through Western North Carolina in the coming days, better think again.
The N.C. Department of Transportation said Friday that all roads in the region should be considered closed. Torrential rain from Hurricane Helene, now a tropical depression, flooded many roads and washed out others. Landslides and downed trees and wires were also blocking the way.
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My oldest son is in Johnson City, TN. Everything around him is flooded. Elizabethton, Erwin and more. Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, Sieverville are expected to flood bad too.
The collapse of I-40 between TN and NC is going to have a major impact to traffic in/out of NC.
In addition to the I-40 collapse, I-26 sank/collapsed south of Johnson City which makes things even worse.
Water to Johnson City & elsewhere is OFF due to the flooding.
S.E. TN and Northwest NC got whacked HARD.
I'm 30 miles SW of Chicago and it's windy AF here right now. We're supposed to get some (much needed) rain from the remnants of the hurricane overnight.
Agreed! I drive I-40 several times a year to get to Johnson City. It's a great road (or was until today!)
They are all from the “North Carolina’s Weather Authority” site.
Oh, so sorry to hear about your MIL problems. We have elderly relatives with fallen trees/storm damage in the midwest from July. Seems to be the last straw for them; they are moving to an elderly apartment with capability for increased care levels. They are 90 and 91. Prayers that your MIL has shelter and support while this is worked out.
Best wishes for your son and family.
My favorite all-time FReeper, Mrs. Don-o, was from Johnson City.
The Old Head Ball Coach was born in Johnson City.
I just saw some before/after photos- Chimney Rock is...gone. it’s quite unbelievable what’s happening even as far away as Lexington, KY. But TN and the Carolinas are a nightmare.
And this
https://youtu.be/_GZRAuUOVCc?si=oN7284bvgRMJ5Rg-
My mother passed away in July. Before she went into assisted living she lived in swannanoa. God bless everyone.
Reporting in from the great upstate of South Carolina encompassing Greenville and Spartanburg Counties. Major damage around the area, so many trees down too numerous to count. Power lines down, power outages, flooding, it’s just a real mess. We’ve been here 18 years and have seen nothing like it.
“If only we all drove EVs, none of this would have happened.”
Another 10 F-16s to Ukraine would prevent this also (at least according to some here).
Will these folks in damaged areas be able to vote?
“Sounds like one stupid and fragile highway system built by the diversity crowd.”
They were lucky to have built it. If they had delayed a few more years, the “environmentalist” would have stopped its construction.
“ Sounds like one stupid and fragile highway system built by the diversity crowd.”
Building roads, especially interstates, through mountain ranges is hard, and the roads often follow watersheds, so it’s not surprising that with abnormal weather, roads get washed out or blocked with landslides.
I hope she’s safe & not alone. Praying.
“Sounds like one stupid and fragile highway system built by the diversity crowd.”
naw ... I-40 has been periodically either sliding down a hill or having a hill slide down on it decades before DEI was a thing ... very unstable mountain terrain ...
Im south of Charlotte and we’ve been out of power for 20 hrs. My sailboat is on lake Murray and I’m hoping it’s still there.
I saw pictures of that. The entire town is gone, completely washed away from the pictures I saw. It’s horrible.
The problem with I 40 is between TN border Newport TN and Asheville. If you were going to Johnson City by I 40 in TN from the west you would take I 81 to 26 or from the east in NC 1 40 to 26.
The part of I 40 over the mountains is really messed up and repairs with be time consuming and expensive if the roads have collapsed or are unstable. This would be harder to repair than 1 95 near Philadelphia last year.
Most of said system was built before the diversity crowd became a significant thing (especially in road construction and especially road engineering.)
Question is, would you vote for the 5x or 10x $$ needed to make, say, I-40 near the Smoky Mountains, nearly invulnerable to landslides and raging rivers in a once every 20 or 50 year event?
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