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Thank you. The Appalachian mountains are a lovely place to fly.

Stone quarry.

For strip mines see my video of Southern West Virginia airpot

I agree that private prisons are an abomination. I have no reason to doubt you about commissary prices too. However, This facility is owned and oerated by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Remember that the next election day.

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed this video. This is not shot from a drone. This is a certificated aircraft and flown higher and faster than drones should.

Hi! Didn't realise it's not a drone! Anyway...great footage! Hope you gonna check my work as well, same platform! Cheers!

Compare the streets of black/gray to the brown. Pause the video at 2:01, note the large building with the brown parking lot. Compare that pavement to the parking lot towards the bottom edge of the screen. The mall was flooded, the other building was not. I like to fly, I am much less inclined to learn how to edit video. Sorry.

The FAA mandates a minimum safe altitude. A careful review of the video, and perhaps pausing, will show several mobile homes washed away as well as how half of the town streets are earth toned as they are covered with mud.

Its not going to look like a wasteland overall. The washed out areas are in the valley floor where all the water funneled into the rivers and creeks. This impacts some town centers and many main routes that follow rivers and thus get washed out. The immediate problem is if you can't get in or out with a normal vehicle. Once they fill in the blown out road sections aide will flow and repairs start.

0:40 - You can see several brown areas at the bottom-left, this shows how badly the creek had overflown. This is US 421 in downtown Mountain City. 0:55 - Same as before, this is N. Church Street, Mountain City. 1:17 - Same as before, this is still N. Church Street, Mountain City. It continues on for several seconds until he banks left. 3:40 - Bottom center, the intersection of Highway 91 N and Gentry's Creek Road. You can clearly see how badly the creek overflowed here. It left Gentry's Creek Road borderline impassable. 4:05 - As we continue northbound following Highway 91, you can see a bit more substantial damage on the left side of the highway. This is also where some of the major damage to the roadway began, as 91 directly parallels a major waterway from Laurel Bloomery to Damascus. 4:50 - You can very clearly see parts of the extensive damage done to Highway 91 in the bottom of the screen. 5:20 - Again, it is so clear that there's been a lot of damage to the property lining the creek. I don't see how you can say you never saw anything. 5:35 - Bottom left. This was a trailer park with more than a few homes located there. It's entirely gone. All of it washed downstream. If you look closely, you can see the debris and follow the creek all the way to where one of the many bridges were also washed out. 5:48 - Bottom left. You can clearly see the aforementioned bridge. 5:53 - Wide area at bottom-center. You can once again clearly see extensive flood damage and debris, yet again disproving your claim that you "really didn't see anything at all that resembled the kind of damage we are seeing on the ground." 8:50 - The "town that looked like it was in disarray", as you so eloquently put it, is the same exact town that you just saw less than three minutes ago, in the same exact condition as it was then. Much more than simply "disarray." Also, again at this timestamp you can see the remnants of the aforementioned trailer park that was entirely demolished. Your comment is ridiculous. "If this was to show devastated areas, it didn't work." ..... Yes it did. If you would look closely enough, you would see. "I didn't see one broken road at all." ..... Yes you did. I even timestamped it for you. There are several. "No piles of debris no piles of cars or homes" ..... Yes, there are several. Again, if you would look closely enough, you would see. "none of the newly formed rivers where roads used to be." ..... See, that's the funny thing. When the water recedes, the "newly formed rivers" do as well. The water is gone, and all that it left was destruction. "I watched this on my phone then went to computer hoping larger screen showed something." ..... I watched this on my phone and had no problems finding every single thing that I have written in this comment. "It didn't." ..... Yes, it would have, had you looked closely. "Are you flying by the hard hit areas?" ..... I'm not the poster, obviously, but yes, yes the pilot is flying by hard hit areas. Hope my comment helps you see what is very clearly displayed in this video.

The FAA mandates a minimum safe altitude over "congested areas" I couldn't get much lower without violating the regs.

Happy to help.

Then why did you watch it ?

It took me a couple weeks to sort this out. Glad you got it taken care of.

What would you suggest as a change?

@@defenderofthepublic Flying from Clintwood VA to Red Onion State Prison.

@@donniedotson3318there no airport in clintwood va

Look at the two other new posts.

Glad you liked it. I wanted to go all the way to the Mountain Empire airport for quick touch and go but the clouds were still low there.

When will you be up here? You can ride with me.

@@defenderofthepublic looks like late June/July for about a week.

It is cool to see from the air too

It is a beautiful place to fly.

I assure you there was one. I have it recorded, I may post later.

LOL @@defenderofthepublic

Yeah. I probably wasn't as alarmed as I should have been. My oil over flow vent was obstructed and oil was spraying on the exhaust. So, some smoke but no fire. Cleared the obstruction and things were fine.

Thank you. Things in the cockpit were quite exciting, turned out to be a bit of oil on the manifold.

Thank you. Flying around Appalachia is lovely.

Off airport landings can be a daunting consideration around here. As you can see there are options and more with greater altitude. It is still a stunning place to fly. Thanks for the comment.

The bears are around. Some in town too.,

I agree. It is hard to shoot bad video around SW VA

Thank You. Appalachia is a beautiful place to fly.

Thank you. The subject was quite helpful.

Thank you. I have several other similar videos around SWVA and East TN.