I live two hours away from this. All it had to do was move to the right s few degrees and it would have hit us. Still can’t get over it. My grandson and his buddies went up and helped out. Admire them for doing that. God be with the NC mountains
My boyfriend knows the mechanic who owns the shop that's flooded. His house is right there as well. You can see him pulling a car up away from the water. My boyfriend is there now, 3 weeks later helping him repair his house.
Thanks for sharing; it's so depressing to see the devastation and the tremendous sadness for the people who cannot get out or get relief. Hopefully, the relief will come soon.
Great video. Thank you for recording and sharing that. Someday it may become as much a part of history as the black-and-white photos of the 1916 great flood are today. Let's hope it's at least another 108 years before this scene is repeated! In the French Broad watershed, another flood like this someday is inevitable... but we mortals always plead: not in my time. My heart goes out for all the victims and for all the physical losses. Most of all the loss of a sense of place, the loss of a sense of safety and stability. The French Broad cannot offer that in its current wild, untamed state... So we must remember, and be prepared. Thank you for your work!
thanks for sharing this video. i am a retired plant operator from msd treatment plant. i retired april 2013 after 25 years at msd. i was wondering how the plant held up. your video answered my question as the plant had not flooded, i noticed the dam level and the water level below was about equal.
Hello Mr. Marc I actually met and had dinner with you and your wife a few weeks before this. I was with the engineers discussing Taylor's Wave. Looks like the cofferdam never had a chance. I hope you all are doing well and I plan on coming to help anyway I can. Please let me know what Is needed most. I wish you all well.
Sure thing. Fun! The place we had dinner, White Duck Taco, got hammered bad. THe coffer dam held amazingly well. THere are some other engineering challenges that the S2) team is working through, so hopefully back on track soon.
I do not. America is raging all over the world. Helene is raging in America. Thank you Helene ! God admonished America ! It's not a nuclear strike yet No America, no "World-Peace"-Wars anymore ! - And now Milton regulares further. Thank you so much, "Milton" !!
I think what is so upsetting for me to see is the complete devastation of a beautiful landscape, a thriving, working and interactive community. Most people have lived through at least one significant flood in their lives, but then there are those floods that are so catastrophic, they change the human mind forever. Buildings, homes and other structures can always be rebuilt. Sometimes they cannot be recreated the way they once were, other times, they're built better than they had been. But what changes is the psyche of the human mind. Devastation from natural & manmade disasters stays with people for the rest of their lives. I live in Pennsylvania and I wasn't affected by this catastrophe but, as not only a human being but a fellow American, to see my countrymen/women and their children affected both physically and emotionally, steals a little more of your heart over time. My heart and prayers go out to these people who have been forever altered. May God keep you strong, may God protect you and may God give you peace.
Most people didn't evacuate. The river floods pretty regularly there so I'm sure a lot of people thought they were far away from the water's flood plain.
Douglas Lake in Tennessee is where this all ended up. I haven't seen any videos from there but it has to be similar to the way Lake Lure looked post flood...
Thanks for this video Marc. I've been in touch with people at SimpleShot in Woodfin. They produce slingshots. Many of the employees had their homes damaged in this horrible catastrophe.The SimpleShot factory is OK because their production facility and storage are in the 4th floor. I hope you will all be OK and get plenty of relief in the coming days and weeks.
Ty for this video. So many do not know it was the flooding, not the actual hurricane. So much judgement,why we weren't prepared,why people didn't evacuate if they were giving a warning. This is a mountain, when dirt gets wet it caves. 😮❤
@@mmbvab1Last year I was hiking on the Long Trail in Vermont. I had issues with my phone and poor cell coverage. When resolved my cell issue I learned a massive rain storm was coming in. To make a long story short I am fortunate to be alive. Another hiker down the trail drowned. The storm was not nearly as bad as this one but the state capital and many towns were under multiple feet of water. Pretty much every farmer lost their crops and many roads and bridges were destroyed. A year later on the exact day parts of the state got flooded again by a similar massive rain storm. These people will find their way but it was most certainly take time. Much of the help in Vermont came from locals and local excavators. Neighbors helping each other.
Its heartbreaking there was a mobile home park up in the mountains that all passed duringvthe landslide and noone is tellingvthere storys its truly sad just because yhey lived in mobile homes they are humans and there storys deserve to be told as well it truly frustrating to see nopne is telling there storys
1:54 I don't live there anymore but I used to go to that coffee shop, it was the most adorable little place with chairs where you could sit outside. I was wondering how it faired. Not good 😢
America is raging all over the world. Helene is raging in America. Thank you Helene ! God admonished America ! It's not a nuclear strike yet No America, no "World-Peace"-Wars anymore ! - And now Milton regulares further. Thank you so much, "Milton" !!
@@antonsturm6185I guess you don't live here, cause everyone I know is suffering from the effects of the storm. And you're celebrating our suffering? What kind of sick, wackadoodle ding dong are you?
"This is the result of opening the top damn and keeping the others closed purposely to flood these areas as the system is meant to open the top and continue to open the others but they only opened one until everything flooded because when the water they let through hit the second one it spread out because it was closed and the water has no other way to go which caused it to over flow and continue to spread and get worse as it encountered every closed damn on the way down flooding out these towns which is also why many of the small creeks and streams are not destroyed but had it been rain it would of also destroyed all creek beds as well as the river beds had it been the rain the creek beds coming down the mountain would have been destroyed and widened and most of the creek beds didn't swell or get any damage only the river channels . Call me a conspiracy theorist if you will but look at the springs coming down the mountain are their sides destroyed like the river......"- Christine Taylor
You are right. This flood is one of many before in the same plae, most of them unrecorded. The forests change, the land itself changes, if we go back far enough. In this case, as in 1916, humans were in the picture. The scale of a human life is not enough time to comprehend how much change is THE constant.
This footage is nothing compared daybreak. A little after 7am all this footage your watching was nothing add 10 to 15 more feet. By 11am water had already receded several feet.
@@stephenbyrd8295I live in Barnardsville on Paint Fork Rd. It's quite a ways to the French Broad "neighbor". The FB has a much larger watershed. How do you know when it peaked?
@@MarcHunt. That's the time-frame Duke Energy/Vanguard opened the dam floodgates!! "WAKE UP CALL:” imagine When raining Creeks fill W/water, we all witnessed The natural rise of Creekwater River water all our lives during snow melts, thunderstorms, etc. what causes 10 foot surges?” increase in depth of that water every 4 hours till A Maximum depth, 50ft is it achieved could the cause .. opening floodgates on four different dams or more, and or including several gates at a time on extremely large reservoirs which do exist north of this destruction be the reason for those surges that everybody testified in the region, it occurred specifically, North Carolina and Tennessee what increased that water they open the next gates you get another surge and an additional 10 feet of water the rivers already full. This is the reality of what happened. There’s no other reason for surge of that proportion in a natural rain in 60+ years on this earth, I’ve never witnessed such a surge until this storm surge i’m top of mountains is also the causes for the extreme displacement of anchored buildings to be washed off their foundations high waters have never done that only a surge can do that and once you got 40 feet of water full of every type of board wood toy, canned goods, bed, frames, cars, tractors, trucks, trailers, wagons, campers, propane, tanks, concrete foundation, blocks, blacktop, and concretebicycles, motorcycles , gas cans, rocks, trees with the roots and tact. Would that not also be the cause of the gorge left in its wake in excess of 20 feet and some locations deeper somethings not adding up and somebody’s lying and if that’s the case that would explain for no government help and a Media blackout in order to take the attention off of what really happened as far as I’m concerned all guilty parties would do everything and anything to make sure the secret didn’t get out & exposed & complete lack of empathy for human life and media attention creating another problem that the people pulling those levers in those locals not only change the land geographically permanently, but genocide their own people in their own communities neighbors kin folk strangers and anyone in their wake & are directly responsible & the ones that should be under the microscope seen as the guiltiest & 30 people could pull off a catastrophe this large, very very easily North Carolina and Tennessee has some very evil tratiors No living among them who will kill hundreds without the blink of an eye, and now that they done it they’ll have no problem repeating on a larger scale. These are dangerous. People must be found out and dealt with on an extreme level. there’s no safety in those communities until that is resolved." - Jeff Muzinoski
1000 year flood... every 5 years now....with climate change (whatever the cause) the amount of rain in these storms is just mind boggling.... no way that human ambitions will be able to stand up to these forces
You aware of haarp along with other weather manipulation tech? I'm sure it's a conspiracy though. Lithium rich land in the eyes of dark rulers be like: We have you in our good intentions.
Why stand up to it when you can blame the libs and their weather machine? Seems way easier on the smooth brain than understanding the uniquely complex concept that is climate change on the only habitable planet in known existence. /s
And they had 2 days prior of torrential downpours to add Insult. You are seeing the roads wiped out because the rivers over ran their banks by 20 ft. I’ve driven those roads all my adult years. They were safe until that 400 mile wide Storm came up from the Gulf. Get over yourself. NC Civil Engineers are among some of the Best. Use your inner dialog Buddy.
I think engineers and builders used their best estimates, based on the 1916 flood and subsequent data. Assuming that was a one-off, but it wasn't. There are commercial reasons to have a road, a river and a railroad all next to one another, or at least there were - but it's risky. Remains to be seen what gets built back and where, and what was actually destroyed. That discussion hasn't even happened yet. But humans have a long history of returning to risky areas and building again, playing the odds.
What is with the awful music? Very bad choice. Everybody and their momma is trying to become an impact videographer. Shoot flood, add banal dialogue or inappropriate music.
America is raging all over the world. Helene is raging in America. Thank you Helene ! God admonished America ! It's not a nuclear strike yet No America, no "World-Peace"-Wars anymore ! - And now Milton regulares further. Thank you so much, "Milton" !!
America is raging all over the world. Helene is raging in America. Thank you Helene ! God admonished America ! It's not a nuclear strike yet No America, no Wars anymore ! - And now Milton regulares further. Thank you so much, "Milton" !!
French broad river also runs through tennesse why don't you show there flooding the were really bad as well. People lost there homes and roads washed out. NOT JUST NC
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I live two hours away from this. All it had to do was move to the right s few degrees and it would have hit us. Still can’t get over it. My grandson and his buddies went up and helped out. Admire them for doing that. God be with the NC mountains
My boyfriend knows the mechanic who owns the shop that's flooded. His house is right there as well. You can see him pulling a car up away from the water. My boyfriend is there now, 3 weeks later helping him repair his house.
That is the proper way to convey your message. A single piano note playing, and the emotion is there.
Thank you so much for sharing this Marc. It’s unbelievable
Thanks for sharing; it's so depressing to see the devastation and the tremendous sadness for the people who cannot get out or get relief. Hopefully, the relief will come soon.
Thank you for allowing us out here in the world to feel a part of this in heart felt horrifying view.
Finally shedding tears over this situation. They have been frozen inside of me until now.
Hope that I will be able to stop..
Great video. Thank you for recording and sharing that. Someday it may become as much a part of history as the black-and-white photos of the 1916 great flood are today. Let's hope it's at least another 108 years before this scene is repeated! In the French Broad watershed, another flood like this someday is inevitable... but we mortals always plead: not in my time. My heart goes out for all the victims and for all the physical losses. Most of all the loss of a sense of place, the loss of a sense of safety and stability. The French Broad cannot offer that in its current wild, untamed state... So we must remember, and be prepared. Thank you for your work!
I think there was a bad flood in 1889 also
Nice work on the video. Thanks for posting.
Props to whoever built that above ground pool. Damn.
Heartbreaking ... No words are necessary.
Good work on a tough job, Marc.
Wow! That high five coffee by the river was my favorite spot.
thanks for sharing this video. i am a retired plant operator from msd treatment plant. i retired april 2013 after 25 years at msd. i was wondering how the plant held up. your video answered my question as the plant had not flooded, i noticed the dam level and the water level below was about equal.
Hello Mr. Marc I actually met and had dinner with you and your wife a few weeks before this. I was with the engineers discussing Taylor's Wave. Looks like the cofferdam never had a chance. I hope you all are doing well and I plan on coming to help anyway I can. Please let me know what Is needed most. I wish you all well.
Sure thing. Fun! The place we had dinner, White Duck Taco, got hammered bad. THe coffer dam held amazingly well. THere are some other engineering challenges that the S2) team is working through, so hopefully back on track soon.
I live 5 minutes from there! Great video! So sad to see😢
Me, too. Very sad.
I went to see myself two days ago and the train tracks being out is what got me the most. No bueno.
The oldest river in western hemisphere I’m sure it’s seen some great floods in its 300+ million year lifespan
Definitely. Could probably be even greater.
Nothing like living on top of old deposits of ancient mountains
Good job on the video we are praying for everyone affected by the storm.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL AMEN
Great job!
im sitting here speechless
I do not.
America is raging all over the world. Helene is raging in America. Thank you Helene !
God admonished America ! It's not a nuclear strike yet
No America, no "World-Peace"-Wars anymore !
-
And now Milton regulares further. Thank you so much, "Milton" !!
Very powerful message.
I think what is so upsetting for me to see is the complete devastation of a beautiful landscape, a thriving, working and interactive community. Most people have lived through at least one significant flood in their lives, but then there are those floods that are so catastrophic, they change the human mind forever. Buildings, homes and other structures can always be rebuilt. Sometimes they cannot be recreated the way they once were, other times, they're built better than they had been. But what changes is the psyche of the human mind. Devastation from natural & manmade disasters stays with people for the rest of their lives. I live in Pennsylvania and I wasn't affected by this catastrophe but, as not only a human being but a fellow American, to see my countrymen/women and their children affected both physically and emotionally, steals a little more of your heart over time. My heart and prayers go out to these people who have been forever altered. May God keep you strong, may God protect you and may God give you peace.
Most people didn't evacuate. The river floods pretty regularly there so I'm sure a lot of people thought they were far away from the water's flood plain.
I wish I could help all the people in all the States that flooded 😢😢😢😢🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
1:00 propane tank caught in the flood and discharging gas…That river is so contaminated right now
Douglas Lake in Tennessee is where this all ended up. I haven't seen any videos from there but it has to be similar to the way Lake Lure looked post flood...
I can see how that did a lot of damage.
I suspect this has been happening in the region for millions of years, but it's the first time in recorded history.
Thanks for this video Marc. I've been in touch with people at SimpleShot in Woodfin. They produce slingshots. Many of the employees had their homes damaged in this horrible catastrophe.The SimpleShot factory is OK because their production facility and storage are in the 4th floor. I hope you will all be OK and get plenty of relief in the coming days and weeks.
Ty for this video. So many do not know it was the flooding, not the actual hurricane. So much judgement,why we weren't prepared,why people didn't evacuate if they were giving a warning. This is a mountain, when dirt gets wet it caves. 😮❤
@@mmbvab1Last year I was hiking on the Long Trail in Vermont. I had issues with my phone and poor cell coverage. When resolved my cell issue I learned a massive rain storm was coming in. To make a long story short I am fortunate to be alive. Another hiker down the trail drowned. The storm was not nearly as bad as this one but the state capital and many towns were under multiple feet of water. Pretty much every farmer lost their crops and many roads and bridges were destroyed. A year later on the exact day parts of the state got flooded again by a similar massive rain storm. These people will find their way but it was most certainly take time. Much of the help in Vermont came from locals and local excavators. Neighbors helping each other.
@@mtadams2009 That's the only way to get through it.
It’s like the French broad, turned into the Mississippi
Its heartbreaking there was a mobile home park up in the mountains that all passed duringvthe landslide and noone is tellingvthere storys its truly sad just because yhey lived in mobile homes they are humans and there storys deserve to be told as well it truly frustrating to see nopne is telling there storys
1:54 I don't live there anymore but I used to go to that coffee shop, it was the most adorable little place with chairs where you could sit outside. I was wondering how it faired. Not good 😢
America is raging all over the world. Helene is raging in America. Thank you Helene !
God admonished America ! It's not a nuclear strike yet
No America, no "World-Peace"-Wars anymore !
-
And now Milton regulares further. Thank you so much, "Milton" !!
@@antonsturm6185I guess you don't live here, cause everyone I know is suffering from the effects of the storm. And you're celebrating our suffering? What kind of sick, wackadoodle ding dong are you?
Why would you want to live there it happened in 1916 also same condition. A hurricane and rivers flooding,landslides and dam breaching.
"This is the result of opening the top damn and keeping the others closed purposely to flood these areas as the system is meant to open the top and continue to open the others but they only opened one until everything flooded because when the water they let through hit the second one it spread out because it was closed and the water has no other way to go which caused it to over flow and continue to spread and get worse as it encountered every closed damn on the way down flooding out these towns which is also why many of the small creeks and streams are not destroyed but had it been rain it would of also destroyed all creek beds as well as the river beds had it been the rain the creek beds coming down the mountain would have been destroyed and widened and most of the creek beds didn't swell or get any damage only the river channels . Call me a conspiracy theorist if you will but look at the springs coming down the mountain are their sides destroyed like the river......"- Christine Taylor
Why is it called ash ville 😮
Use your search engine to find out! And it's spelled Asheville...good grief, some people are just...!
The Earth changes it’s always happened and will continue
Thank you for your third grade understanding of the world! Keep studying cuz we believe in you!! 👍
You are right. This flood is one of many before in the same plae, most of them unrecorded. The forests change, the land itself changes, if we go back far enough. In this case, as in 1916, humans were in the picture. The scale of a human life is not enough time to comprehend how much change is THE constant.
Might as well get used to a lot of suffering.
We are not going to fare well in the coming years.
This footage is nothing compared daybreak. A little after 7am all this footage your watching was nothing add 10 to 15 more feet. By 11am water had already receded several feet.
Actually, most of this footage was taken very close in time to peak flow, which occured at about 5PM on Friday the 27th. Within a foot of the crest.
@@MarcHunt just asheville. Out here in barnardsville it was closer to daybreak. Hope we never see this again my friend
@@stephenbyrd8295I live in Barnardsville on Paint Fork Rd. It's quite a ways to the French Broad "neighbor". The FB has a much larger watershed. How do you know when it peaked?
@@MarcHunt. That's the time-frame Duke Energy/Vanguard opened the dam floodgates!!
"WAKE UP CALL:” imagine
When raining Creeks fill W/water, we all witnessed
The natural rise of Creekwater River water all our lives during snow melts, thunderstorms, etc. what causes 10 foot surges?” increase in depth of that water every 4 hours till A Maximum depth, 50ft is it achieved could the cause .. opening floodgates on four different dams or more, and or including several gates at a time on extremely large reservoirs which do exist north of this destruction be the reason for those surges that everybody testified in the region, it occurred specifically, North Carolina and Tennessee what increased that water they open the next gates you get another surge and an additional 10 feet of water the rivers already full. This is the reality of what happened. There’s no other reason for surge of that proportion in a natural rain in 60+ years on this earth, I’ve never witnessed such a surge until this storm surge i’m top of mountains is also the causes for the extreme displacement of anchored buildings to be washed off their foundations high waters have never done that only a surge can do that and once you got 40 feet of water full of every type of board wood toy, canned goods, bed, frames, cars, tractors, trucks, trailers, wagons, campers, propane, tanks, concrete foundation, blocks, blacktop, and concretebicycles, motorcycles , gas cans, rocks, trees with the roots and tact. Would that not also be the cause of the gorge left in its wake in excess of 20 feet and some locations deeper somethings not adding up and somebody’s lying and if that’s the case that would explain for no government help and a Media blackout in order to take the attention off of what really happened as far as I’m concerned all guilty parties would do everything and anything to make sure the secret didn’t get out & exposed & complete lack of empathy for human life and media attention creating another problem that the people pulling those levers in those locals not only change the land geographically permanently, but genocide their own people in their own communities neighbors kin folk strangers and anyone in their wake & are directly responsible & the ones that should be under the microscope seen as the guiltiest & 30 people could pull off a catastrophe this large, very very easily North Carolina and Tennessee has some very evil tratiors No living among them who will kill hundreds without the blink of an eye, and now that they done it they’ll have no problem repeating on a larger scale. These are dangerous. People must be found out and dealt with on an extreme level. there’s no safety in those communities until that is resolved." - Jeff Muzinoski
At 02:51 .... baby dangle?
Reminds of Agnes 1972
I was going to 'like' this video, but as I type the current 'likes' are at 828...I didn't wanna change it...
Gulp
1000 year flood... every 5 years now....with climate change (whatever the cause) the amount of rain in these storms is just mind boggling.... no way that human ambitions will be able to stand up to these forces
You aware of haarp along with other weather manipulation tech?
I'm sure it's a conspiracy though.
Lithium rich land in the eyes of dark rulers be like:
We have you in our good intentions.
Why stand up to it when you can blame the libs and their weather machine? Seems way easier on the smooth brain than understanding the uniquely complex concept that is climate change on the only habitable planet in known existence. /s
Best thing to do is move away from the mountains🙏
We live during interesting times😮
@@RalphSmith-cj5he end times.
JESUS is at the door
Question bill gates
Bring him in for questioning.
I wonder how many white water rafters came out for that. I was just on the French Broad this past June, but the level was low.
Not any smart ones. That water is toxic sludge and will be for a bit.
So sad, hopefully in the future people will use better judgment and not build right next to a river.
you do realize that a 30+ inch rain event happened in less than 24hrs? have some respect..
And they had 2 days prior of torrential downpours to add Insult. You are seeing the roads wiped out because the rivers over ran their banks by 20 ft. I’ve driven those roads all my adult years. They were safe until that 400 mile wide Storm came up from the Gulf. Get over yourself. NC Civil Engineers are among some of the Best. Use your inner dialog Buddy.
It was a beautiful state 😥
@@elizabetharnold5849it' is beyond me the lack of education..water + dirt =dissolve.😮
I think engineers and builders used their best estimates, based on the 1916 flood and subsequent data. Assuming that was a one-off, but it wasn't. There are commercial reasons to have a road, a river and a railroad all next to one another, or at least there were - but it's risky. Remains to be seen what gets built back and where, and what was actually destroyed. That discussion hasn't even happened yet. But humans have a long history of returning to risky areas and building again, playing the odds.
A nasty coal ash killed river gets pissed off
What is with the awful music? Very bad choice. Everybody and their momma is trying to become an impact videographer. Shoot flood, add banal dialogue or inappropriate music.
America is raging all over the world. Helene is raging in America. Thank you Helene !
God admonished America ! It's not a nuclear strike yet
No America, no "World-Peace"-Wars anymore !
-
And now Milton regulares further. Thank you so much, "Milton" !!
FEMA struggles due to your admin!
America is raging all over the world. Helene is raging in America. Thank you Helene !
God admonished America ! It's not a nuclear strike yet
No America, no Wars anymore !
-
And now Milton regulares further. Thank you so much, "Milton" !!
Do not vote for DJT !
You ok with continuing to pay illegals? Giving them free phones. Medical care.
are we supposed to vote for the idiot cackling commie kamala? GTFOH
Dont tell people who to vote for
So sad suremany businesses will be shuttered
French broad river also runs through tennesse why don't you show there flooding the were really bad as well. People lost there homes and roads washed out. NOT JUST NC