Posted on 09/30/2024 1:01:52 PM PDT by Red Badger
The death toll from catastrophic flooding in the Asheville area of western North Carolina more than tripled on Monday to 35 — as survivors in remote mountain towns described seeing the bodies of victims stuck in trees.
Nationwide, there have been 120 fatalities from Hurricane Helene, which has cut a path of death and destruction across the Southeast since making landfall last Thursday.
The rains smashed the mountains of Buncombe County, which contains Asheville, washing away whole communities in floodwaters and mudslides. Roadways were buried or washed away, leaving victims cut off from rescue crews.
“There were bodies in trees. They were finding bodies under rubble,” said Alyssa Hudson, whose home of Black Mountain — a village of 8,400 people about 12 miles from Asheville — was all but washed away.
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We live just over the border in east Tennessee. The mountains of western North Carolina are one of the prettiest areas of the country. Recovery will probably take years in some areas.
We actually live on a mountain stream that signficantly floods on average about once every three years, hurricane or no hurricane. We were spared without any flooding at all. But some areas just 30 miles to the northeast of us were devastated.
They showed on Fox News an area called Henderson County I believe, its totally destroyed, who know show many bodies are underneath all that rubble, mud and debris, I cant imagine :( just heartbreaking all those people
Bridges gone, railways gone, interstate gone, secondary roads gone, Power grid gone, Communications networks gone. This will take years to repair. The people will essentially be living in the 1800’s for the next several years................
It’s beginning to smell like Biden’s Katrina Moment.
Biden/Harris/Buttyhead are on it!
this is looking more and more like what Hurricane Camille did to Virginia in 1969....
The French Broad River at Fletcher crested at a record 30.31 feet on September 27, 2024 at 6:45 PM. It exceeded the previous record of 20.13 feet set on September 8, 2004 during Hurricane Frances.
And Biden and Harris say “meh”
Commielaw doesn’t deserve to be POTUS.
We need to send billions more to Ukraine and Ustinkistan.
The MSM will totally ignore any problems, unlike what they did to Bush.........Where IS that crying SOB that used to be on Fox?.............................
Knowing that Asheville is a Democrat paradise, I have problems feeling bad for all the dead liberals.
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