HORRIFIC Hurricane Helene Aftermath - Swannanoa to Black Mountain, North Carolina
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- The tragic scenes out of North Carolina continue today. A majority of downtown Swannanoa has been completely wiped out beyond believe. Closer to Black Mountain roads have been washed out and Lake Tomahawk has drained due to a dam failure and all that remains is a muddy mess.
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Thank you so much for showing the Black Mtn area. You and I commented about that area last evening. Just this evening I was able to talk with my Aunt and Uncle, for the first time since the 27th.
We are praising the Lord, that they are safe. Their new home was built in the Blk Mtns a few years ago. Their home is okay. Being without power and water, they have went to Charlotte to a hotel.
You said last night, you would try to film this area. And you did. We are very Thankfull. We appreciate what you are doing.
My aunt mentioned that they will be volunteering help.
They are both pastors.
Be safe out there!
And, God Bless you.
I saw my precious aunt's house in this footage and I hope and pray she is with her friends, shelter in place. I haven't heard from her but I hope and pray she is okay. This devastation is so heartbreaking. I'm crying for all the people whose loved ones are gone and displaced and lost everything. It is so sad. Praying.
Sending prayers from PA!
😮 PRAYING FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY TOO
I will pray for her too. Sending prayers to all devastated from Helene.
If you saw the spray paint markings on the doors of homes and other places, it means that search and rescue has been there and the house is cleared. I could not see the markings clearly enough to interpret.
......... that you are guided, surrounded, protected with the peace, love and grace of God within and without.
Good video,helps one understand the magnitude of the destruction when you see mile after mile of it.
Im in Texas. The apocalyptic catastrophic extent of this Helene disaster affecting so many states & so many towns is almost incomprehensible. shocking. The extensive damage to critical infrastructure will complicate recovery so severely, that it leaves one speechless. 😢😢😢
It's very hard to imagine, even with all of the video.
I use to live in the area. I loved to visit the ducks at Lake Tomahawk & Lake Susan. I would walk around those lakes pratically every day. This is tragic! 😢
Sending our Prayers and Love to Everyone Devastated by the Flood. This has got to be one of the most devastating videos I've seen yet! 😭 Thankyou for taking your time out to show this tragedy. 😥 so much is gone Just gone! Prayers to Everyone helping these Beautiful People 💕🙏🏼
Different town and location, same unbelievable destruction. A nightmare that keeps repeating itself.
So sad to see this. Definitely puts how bad this really was into perspective. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone effected.
sending out thoughts and prayers to the few who aren't white supremacists.
Spectacular footage of what has to be one of the most devastating tragedies in my lifetime. I'm old and have seen a lot. This really punches me right in the gut. The raw look at the catastrophic damage hurts the heart. T's&P's to all who were affected by this massive tragedy. Thank you for sharing this footage. 🙏🙏🙏💪💪💪
This is made twice as bad by the fact this hit our country in it's poorest regions. Praying for all effected 🙏🙏❤️
Asheville has alot of ritch assholes too, don't let it fool you
The total amount of money from tourism in Asheville NC last year was 2.6 billion dollars, not exactly the poorest place in the country. Not at all saying it not devastated.
The military have large pop-up bridges. Couldn’t they use these in place of some of the washed out bridges? We seem to be able to supply anything that Ukraine needs for its war machine so why not help the folks suffering from Helene.
FL DOT is bringing their temporary bridges up
Yep. The Seabees do too. They can put a bridge together faster than anybody.
As Lindsey Graham of South Carolina stated, they're giving us dollars away to Ukraine for their mineral rights. They don't give a shit about us and it's our money.
Military contractors paid by US taxpayers supply equipment to Ukraine. Our US military does have everything that would make all this accessible, and it would be provided as needed.
It seems as though they need more searchers for survivors and account for everyone missing.
Thank you for sharing this, we are all so worried about you all!
Incredible footage of the devastation. This is heartbreaking. Prayers for all of the families. Tears flowing.
Thank you! Strange that lakes Tomahawk and Susan are below average water levels. Near and dear to my heart. Lived in Blk Mtn 6 years. And Asheville just heartbreaking!
That’s what happens when the dam is washed away.
I live in Southern Louisiana about 40 mins from where Katrina hit hardest. This is truly devastating & so heartbreaking. Growing up I didn't have the fear of Hurricanes that I do now. So scary.
I live in Australia and can't believe what I am seeing, I just can't get my head around it. I am so sorry for all your heartbreak. It will take years for you all to recover and for some, there will be no recovery. I am an 82 year old lady and the tears are pouring down my face, seeing all the devastation. My thoughts and Prayers are with you all.
Thank you..
I'm right there with ya, sister. Cryin and prayin, cryin and prayin. 🙏🙏🙏 no need closing in "Amen" In these last days....more like "brb", Lord. The bible tells us He saves our tears in a bottle and pray ceaselessly. Thank you for adding your prayers with ours here in SC. Jesus is my hope and rest.
Good job the residents appreciate the storm chasers and the help they were given. They said you guys showed up right after the storm DAYS before their own government. The stormchasing community saved people from flash flooding or even if it was just a bottle of water and a piece of mind that someone cared about them.
Wow. Thanks for a good perspective. Heartbreaking
Looks like a combination of Mt. Saint Helens and the recent Japanese tsunamis.
Heartbreaking and troubling.
This has to be the most expensive storm ever. The damage is so widespread.
The last part of the video shows that even if a home was not touched by the raging water, the infrastructures that support that home are gone. These videos you have made tell the stories of/for so many. I think about the sound the raging water must have made & then the silence while we watch the devastation of so many communities. Thank you for your time showing the massive power of a storm.
Looks like they should stop the foreign aid and start American aid 🤔
I'm in the Blue Ridge as well, 3 hours by road, but actually closer in miles. This hits home and it's hard to imagine what happened. 🙏
😮 I'M PRAYING FOR EVERYONE THAT WAS EFFECTED BY THIS HURRICANE
My heart is broken for all the communities that are suffering such devastation and loss. May GOD give you strength and courage to face the challenges ahead. I donated supplies to a local effort sending a loaded tractor trailer to WNC. We are just 2 1/2 hrs east. Sending prayers and big hugs.
Continued prayers for everyone 🙏🙏
God Almighty please we need you
I really wish I had the money to just take off work and go help. It's upsetting that I can't be there. This is horrible.
Colleges should cut the year short and send their students to help.
If we had government funded education they actually could do something like that, however I doubt any kid will be willing to waste their semester after going into debt for it.
Okay,.so the drained lake @ 12:21 was not what I was expecting.
IKR? Why haven't we heard about this on the news?
apparently it had already been drained for some other work, so its not related to the hurricane
@@NewWaveArch90according to the town's website, that work was completed in June.
@@NewWaveArch90 there are so many unanswered questions for us that are not there. Prayers for all.
What a disaster!I hope that all these people get the help they need. I pray for you.
I lived in Asheville and have such fond memories but it is unrecognizable. Praying for all❤
Been here 41 years, it hurts!
Just heartbreaking 💔 😢
I grew up in Black Mtn off of blue ridge road and of course I am also very familiar with Swannanoa. It is incredible to see the extent of the damage in the area. Unbelievable.
I'm curious if anyone thought about looking in the tractor trailers to see if there's anything in there that can be used
Wouldn’t that be stealing?
@@Plutogalaxy yup, looting is their next big concern there.
its sad that 120 people are dead but seeing this damage you would thing 1000s died its mind blowing
No one survived here. There's no way. 😳
I'm guessing the spray-painted X's are where the vehicle/building has been checked for people & pets?
I was thinking the same thing. I'm from the area, up in Buncombe county, and from what I've heard Swannanoa was the worst hit area with the highest fatalities. No one here on the ground believes the official death count. I've heard from a buddy who is helping with the rescue efforts that they've found 200 bodies in Swannanoa alone, some of them up in trees.
Yep that's exactly what it is, I'm in Florida I've seen it plenty of times.
@@DMIwriterI heard that too.
That is unbelievable. Are there any homes left? Without damages?
Oh sure. My mom's is one of them.
@@donkey3187 Hope your mom is doing well. This all looks like a movie, I can’t believe that this is all for real…
@@claudiavonkroge3604 She is. She lives in NE Asheville. After no power, water, cell phone service for five days, her and a friend drove to Branson, MO to stay with relatives for a while. It will take weeks to get the water system functioning again.
We are out of time when we are not only witnessing the political economic end of the world but also the physical end of the world.
imagine that none of these people had flood insurance
Imagine a big land grab. And research what's in them thar hills...lithium. sorry to throw out the theory card at a time like this, but you'd hear about it soon enough. I just heard it myself today.
Not lithium, it’s the pure form of quartz used in semiconductors and solar panels, but since your information is incorrect probably the land grab part is also.
Great Drone Work Aaron !
like a horror movie
The horror they must have experienced.
Praying for the good people in NC 😢!
The red X's on the doors and the numbers below them represent that the building has been searched, and how many people were found inside. The X's with a box around them are structures considered not safe
Montreat!! 😢
It's like sheet of rain coming down atmospheric
When nature speaks let's make sure we listen.
Research Operation Popeye.
God help us. We'll get through this WNC!! 🙏
People people people. Why would you build next to a water shed. The commissioners should have never allowed a person to build next to a watershed. The country government should be responsible for all this damage. The town is in the flood zone or flood plan. The sad part is the insurance companies are not going to pay to fix anything. This requires a flood insurance policy. And only the federal government. Sales this policy. Starting over will take years. God bless the citizen of this county. Later.
This is the worst flooding in this region in 108 years. It's not like this happens all the time. You might as well say no one should live in Tornado Alley or along the San Andreas Fault, or near Mount Saint Helens
God you are the master.💕💕💕
It was a perfect storm for a disaster to be created . Extreme intensification going into landfall caring the energy northward and then the energy was enhanced with the higher elevation. You see this happen on Caribbean islands . The other aspect you can see from the video allot of the development was by the river as it's mostly the only useable land . Developers used what was available not knowing it was a ticking time bomb .
I think it's time to begin the retreat. We have dug a hole that we don't want to put in the effort that is needed to turn things around . We put our heard in the sand and go about our lives like its aok
I more so like the idea of houseboats and camps on rivers and lakes. Not the stationary types.
I more so like the idea of houseboats rather than a stationary type building
So I'm just wondering where are the people who occupy those houses. It just goes on and on. It looks like the videos from China and Nepal. And all those other flooded places. Something just doesn't seem right. I feel so terrible about the whole thing. Thank you for informing us and try to find something to smile about. Even for a couple of seconds.
@2:32 I know those houses and the crick to the right. Used to ride my bike down there to Carrier Park every day.
Lets Hope Ukraine Sends us Help
That is so hateful.
Get your head out of your a$$ and don’t be evil.
Thats what i said earlier......we help EVERYONE. Wheres ours😢😢😢
@@FadedRoseStoriesRussiais it? Will they keep asking for money knowing our current situation? Makes one wonder. I mean what has anyone even said to us???
It would be nice to see the military in there. But the a large number of Tennessee National Guard were just sent to Kuwait, I believe 9/30/24. Apparently this area has substantial underground minerals and such, so just how fast will FEMA respond. This destruction is devastating and the loss of life is being underreported. Prayers that those that survived the storm can get the help they need to survive and start over, along with the emotional & spiritual support to deals with this horrific trauma. Prayers to the first responders, this is not something anyone wants to see and smell. May those that have passed be in the hands of God. Thank you for showing what is happening, be safe, God Bless.
I would help mortuary affairs if I could be there.
I can build caskets 😳⚰️
That will be a tough one especially as more time passes. They need refrigerated mortuary trucks and forensics.
sorry for being ignorant....but im up in northern maine...... what do the spray paint markings mean? ppl that have been recovered?????????
Typically there is an X placed on the house or car door
Look at the X as for sections
One will have date searched
No. of occupants if any
What type of hazard may exist be it fuel chemicals or other
Hope that helps you some
@@marcusvalenti7653 thank you i deeply appreciate that...GOD LOVE EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN EVERY STATE AFFECTED!!!!!! we did send our electric company trucks also to help you all!!!!
It's insane to me how one storm can render a whole stretch of the nation into something you're only think you'd see in the worst Fallout game. Literally, looks like a fictional post nuclear wasteland. Best of luck to everyone in recovery.
so quiet now, we cant hear a fly
How can they get help there ?
By air right now and mules going into the remote areas while crews clear roads. It's all horrible.
What does the ILWR mean on the homes or the “X” with the “0/o”?
Looks like an EF5 tornado ripped through
EF5 would mean all the structures are flattened
What brand drone you used? Thanks
What is the spray paint X on the cars and trucks?
it means someone has already checked inside for bodies of klan members
I think it means checked and cleared. No people inside? They did that after Katrina.
It means it's been searched for survivors.
I imagine it's similar to the markings on houses after Katrina to indicate that a home had been searched for survivors and if any victims were found.
it means they have checked they car for surviving Klan members
What do the different color X mean on the vehicles?
Let's build next to this pretty little creek, what could go wrong ? Insurance companies will
fold and this one event probably took out more perfectly good vehicles than Cash for Clunkers.
This was a once in a hundred year event dude...a massive, incredibly rare flood in this area. So, your sarcasm isn't justified. It would be like saying, dont live in the midwest, because you might get hit by a tornado once a century, or in CA because you might get a massive earthquake once every hundred years.
Brah, it was a thousand year flood. GTHO.
@@thedeafcattledog8608 Yep thousand year
Cash for clunkers was one of the stupidest programs EVER!
It won’t be a one and a thousand years anymore - the climate is changing and this will happen again
Anyone know what the different paint colors mean? I know its some sort of markings for being condemned, I just don't know at what level.
🙏
I would prefer that all the lookieloos traveling through making "content" would get to work helping rather than getting in way of those doing work.
Excuse my french but what in tarnation!
And people don't believe in a great flood.
No one believes this is a biblical flood
Forty days and forty nights with no land in sight, thats a crock .
@@28704joe is it? You should look into the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. Approximately 12k years ago there is evidence that a series of meteor impacts melted the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets in a matter of minutes causing a mile deep flood. The story is in every culture for a reason. And the Day of the Dead, also in every culture interestingly enough and at around the time that earth goes through a meteor debris field (perseids).
@@schex9oh it's biblical. But God promised not to destroy the WHOLE earth again with flood. But with fire. This is biblical birth pangs.
Gonna be lots of homeless people
There already were
@@DMIwriter they are probably in lake Douglass by now
I keep hearing stories about looters of the few homes left standing and lived in.😮
They’ve said many times no drones but whatever gets your TH-cam channel more clicks, storm chaser.
Honestly - the drone video shows the damage in places where ppl can't walk or drive. I'm in Texas - there are no words to describe the vast areas & extent of Helene's damage to infrastructure, homes, businesses. Many many many towns, multiple states Roads & bridges destroyed, railroad tracks destroyed. No power. No water. Grocery stores & gasoline shortages. No internet & cell phone communication for days if at all. Reports of hundreds of dead bodies. It is beyond comprehension. And storm chaser videos help the rest of the nation see what is real, that national main stream TV does not cover. I'm 74. This is one of those apocalyptic scenarios that will take MANY years to recover from - and some towns will never recover.
Looks obvious to people who don't live in this region that many of these homes should not have been in these areas and that many of these mobile-homes were not properly tied down, or just poorly built. I see no drainage canals nor storm-sewer systems. However, it is obvious that the real problem came from upstream at each location where there was carnage. It would have been cheaper to build
some of this stuff right the first time.
I don't think you have ever tried to hold a mobile home in place against 1,000,000 cfs water passing through. And since the water basically scoured out its own new channel, the soil holding a concrete tiedown structure in place would have been washed away and next the concrete goes. We don't design for the 500- to 1000-year flood.
Excuse you- why don’t you take yourself off the internet. “People who don’t live in this region”? You think we’re all stupid or something? Just a bunch of mountain hillbillies that can’t add? You think we don’t have engineers and code standards. GTFO brah. It’s a thousand year flood. No one builds in a flood zone- this shit was all outside of the 100 year zone.
Looks like they only have creeks and streams...they need a river.
Looks obvious to me that you have no idea what you're talking about. And a lot of good your superb commentary is doing for the aid of NC
Well those hurricane tie downs didnt work