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.
(Excerpt) Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com ...
If only we all drove EVs, none of this would have happened.
Update: Officials are now saying that the Lake Lure dam is no longer in danger of failing.
Devastating damage being reported from Chimney Rock, North Carolina.
Meh. If we’d all gotten jabbed, there would be peace on earth and harmony in The Spheres.
And reproducing unicorns.
PING? Helene is reaching far and wide!
Especially I-40...
It’s closed at several places.
I just drove from PA to Chapel Hill today. Rough ride through VA, but the rest was ok. Chapel Hill was a mess earlier today, I hear.
I-40 is a major trucking route.
My Mother In Law turns 90 next week. She lives in Asheville, NC. A huge oak tree fell on her house collapsing much of the roof.
No repair crews can get to her house.
It has been awhile since I have posted photos, so, for the sake of time, I’m just going to post links:
Swannanoa, North Carolina:
I-40 between Tennessee and North Carolina:
Chimney Rock, North Carolina:
Like so many other American females, she was stupendously fat.
Yup. No power.
Fortunately, it’s your mother-in-law, so you don’t have to worry about it.
I noticed it’s also clogged with commuters and big rv’s, having found myself on it for the first time in about 35 years last year. My memory of it is that it was mostly just trucks back then.
I have always enjoyed visiting that part of the county. Prayers offered for the good folks there.
Sounds like one stupid and fragile highway system built by the diversity crowd.
Video
Virginia State Police Aviation assets from Abingdon, Va., along with assets from Ballad Health and the Tennessee National Guard, have completed the rescue of approximately 54 people from the roof of the Unicoi County Hospital in Erwin, Tenn
https://rumble.com/v5gmk36-dozens-of-people-rescued-in-tn-from-hospital-roof-from-flooding.html
Drove some of I-40 a dozen years ago...actually much of it is an engineering marvel.
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