The more I see of what has changed in our area the more I tell myself it doesn’t even look real to me, it’s overwhelming. Places I’ve known my whole life are unrecognizable. I’m not talking about homes and roads people, I’m talking about the actual landscape. Imagine walking around your neighborhood and hillsides are gone, fields of bedrock where there were none, islands in the river that are new. If you would have blindfolded me and dropped me into this valley I seriously don’t know if I would have recognized it now. It’s as if ten thousand years of change happened overnight.
100% agree....I feel the same way. It's insane and I tell people that the videos and images don't do it justice. No matter how many times you see it, you just never get used to how it looks now.
It's hard to comprehend the scale of the disaster until you see the dump trucks and excavators looking like toys amongst the debris. In Morristown (TN) we were spared the worst of it, but these areas aren't all that far away and I've long liked the Hot Springs & Asheville areas in NC, two areas that were similarly devastated by Helene. Thank you for documenting not just the cleanup efforts, but also the utter devastation that's still apparent in many heavily impacted areas
Very nice Music, with the drone. I was floating down river a 100 feet above the water, at peace. Love to Y'all, stay warm and dry. Happy veterans Day, a few days early, with all of your Can-Do Spirits, essentially a renewed purpose... don't let them in, live your lives.... The Government just changed hands to perhaps free up a lot of your needs. NAVY Seabees built roads and bridges in Vietnam , overnight . We even built airports, overnight... PEACE OUT...
Beautiful video. In spite of the disaster. Your state is sooooo pretty. I did not know how Beautiful the Carolinas Appalachia was & still is, in somekind of way. Don't stop making videos, people move on and forget. Because life is full of distractions. You need to keep making videos on a constant, so the donations continue to come into your communities. Please pass the word around. 🙏 God Bless You. I am so sorry for all you are going thru. Keep your head up, stay in faith. Pray, pray, pray this is your power. God is the one that can fix this. 🙏 SHALOM.
hey Hippie, sorry for what you all have endured. I know there is more pressing issues you all are dealing with but i am curious if all this flooding hasn't maybe opened up some burried gold reserves and are folks in your area doing any prospecting since this massive flood?
Beautiful music, beautiful filming. Such devastation it makes me cry everytime I watch a video of what happened that terrible day, it doesn't get any easier, there is a long & arduous road ahead but I'm sure all these hard working determined people will get there. I wish everyone in the affected areas all the best for the future, god bless ❤&🙏🏻 from your friends in the UK. 🥰
You have done so much work already; clearing, burning, hauling say the trash! I totally admire your dedication and your work. Such beautiful country! Thank you for all you are doing!
A beautiful place but unfortunately it was devastated by a natural disaster. I am a nature lover, I pray for you. Your videos are very meaningful and have good video quality. Thank you
@@Offroadviking When the surrounding environment recovers and the landscape becomes more beautiful, can you release more videos of the surrounding scene? I am looking forward to this place being beautiful again.
@WorldToday_2024gf Absolutely! Thanks so much for watching, the Chestoa area is right near where I live so I will definitely be posting more video from there as well as the surrounding areas as everyone rebuilds and recovers. Thanks again 🙏
@@Offroadviking 😇😇😇nothing. You are strong mothers, what you do makes not only me but also many viewers touched and admire your intense vitality. I pray for you to be in peace, and one day I will come here to camp small parties with my family under the starry skies and by the streams.
Wonderful video, please keep posting on the progress, I'm sure all of us want to see the recovery of such a beautiful valley that we may visit someday.
Thanks for the video update! We are on the other side of trAsheville and still lots of work to do, but progress is being made. Got out for some more rides on the adv and the damage is staggering. Several of my favorite fs roads are being worked on and should reopen soon
I was over that way earlier this week shooting some video...crazy how much is still left to be done. Went up to the Parkway entrance and then down into Asheville, soooo much damage and the trees down just blew my mind.
Have hiked across that area many times. Thank you for the video. It’s hard to see the bridge gone and what’s left of local spots like Uncle Johnny’s. Godspeed to you all as you recover.
Thank you very much for this. It is a beautiful video and overwhelming to see. We have been wondering how Chestoa is doing. A very loved place in our house. This is heartbreaking. We look forward to the river and trees reclaiming their place once this work is done.
After Chestoa Pike bridge collapsed I was really surprised that the Unaka Springs trestle didn't collapse with the amount of debris that piled against its side.
I feel bad for the folks living there. I grew up in a flood area but it never got as bad as this. I have to say that now I would never rebuild in a flood area if I had any choice at all even though there is undoubtedly a sentimental attachment to the original home site.
❤Why is the Smoke Blue?? Do you know what they were Spreading out? Ashes after they burn piles of debri or ?? Just curious. Did I know what Things looked like before. But being old And disabled And basically homebound I have CONTINUED TO PRAY FOR ALL AFFECTED BY THIS DEVASTION & All the Loss for So Many in TN & W SC. ❤😢
The blue is probably from the lighting conditions as well as the camera response to what it thinks it sees. The more or less continual haze of this area has a tint which isn't always white.
I’m pretty sure that’s cinders from the railbed upstream that are being moved there. In the countless years that steam locomotives ruled the rails, there was a constant rain of cinders falling on the right of way, and in early times the ashes and cinders from locomotive fireboxes were used as ballast (the rock on the tracks). Those cinders have been covered by new stone ballast many times over the last 50+ years, and compacted by thousands of trains passing over it. In many places in the gorge, the flood removed the track, but the cinders remained untouched! Modern engineering principles probably view the cinders as unsuitable to rebuild the railroad on, so it’s being removed. That’s my guess. To those alarmists, this cinder ballast has existed in the gorge for well over 100 years!
The work is huge clean up and rebuilt.Calgary alberta 2013 floods cause hell wreck cprail around and south.This pure mess pure simple take while clean this thing.Thanks video and update.😮
This is absolutely incredible. I kept wondering if that bridge was the one that you travel under to get to the campground and beach area. I think it was spray-painted Kyle Busch or just Busch? Thanks for posting!
as an old RXR hand and stockholder, railroad companies have the money to do a hell of a lot more and being that RXR lines carry interstate commerce's they don't have to follow all the state and federal EPA rules and can get waivers by one phone call . GET busy CSX,. Haul all that metal, trees and damages stuff out recycle yards along the RxR line. I've designed rXr lines on sides of mountain that were in the way, next week half the mountain was gone for just one set of tracks.
lose the dramatic sound track...........try this, instead. START your video at a known, recognizable landmark.........NARRATE the video..........help someone know exactly WHERE this is...............
I'm good...thanks for your feedback but I'll just keep editing the way that I feel suites the videos best. Some of my stuff is narrated...some is not. As far as the location, it's listed in the title and description. Also, if you don't like the music simple fix is mute it. Appreciate your views and comments though, have a blessed day
People like you just got to bitch... There is a button on the thing your watching this with ,,, no matter what.. it's called the mute botton.. They don't need for the likes of you knowing the exact location
The more I see of what has changed in our area the more I tell myself it doesn’t even look real to me, it’s overwhelming. Places I’ve known my whole life are unrecognizable. I’m not talking about homes and roads people, I’m talking about the actual landscape. Imagine walking around your neighborhood and hillsides are gone, fields of bedrock where there were none, islands in the river that are new. If you would have blindfolded me and dropped me into this valley I seriously don’t know if I would have recognized it now. It’s as if ten thousand years of change happened overnight.
100% agree....I feel the same way. It's insane and I tell people that the videos and images don't do it justice. No matter how many times you see it, you just never get used to how it looks now.
It's hard to comprehend the scale of the disaster until you see the dump trucks and excavators looking like toys amongst the debris. In Morristown (TN) we were spared the worst of it, but these areas aren't all that far away and I've long liked the Hot Springs & Asheville areas in NC, two areas that were similarly devastated by Helene. Thank you for documenting not just the cleanup efforts, but also the utter devastation that's still apparent in many heavily impacted areas
Very nice Music, with the drone. I was floating down river a 100 feet above the water, at peace. Love to Y'all, stay warm and dry. Happy veterans Day, a few days early, with all of your Can-Do Spirits, essentially a renewed purpose... don't let them in, live your lives.... The Government just changed hands to perhaps free up a lot of your needs. NAVY Seabees built roads and bridges in Vietnam , overnight . We even built airports, overnight... PEACE OUT...
Navy Seabees rebuilt schools after Andrew. We can hope that with the change in leadership, the focus will shift to doing more for US citizens.
Beautiful video. In spite of the disaster. Your state is sooooo pretty. I did not know how Beautiful the Carolinas Appalachia was & still is, in somekind of way. Don't stop making videos, people move on and forget. Because life is full of distractions. You need to keep making videos on a constant, so the donations continue to come into your communities. Please pass the word around. 🙏 God Bless You. I am so sorry for all you are going thru. Keep your head up, stay in faith. Pray, pray, pray this is your power. God is the one that can fix this. 🙏 SHALOM.
It's Appalachia. It's all nice going north and south along the Tennessee - North Carolina border. Probably elsewhere too.
You are so welcome right and thank you.
As a local we appreciate you putting this out your doing a good job a lot better than the local news
Thanks so much
hey Hippie, sorry for what you all have endured. I know there is more pressing issues you all are dealing with but i am curious if all this flooding hasn't maybe opened up some burried gold reserves and are folks in your area doing any prospecting since this massive flood?
Beautiful music, beautiful filming. Such devastation it makes me cry everytime I watch a video of what happened that terrible day, it doesn't get any easier, there is a long & arduous road ahead but I'm sure all these hard working determined people will get there. I wish everyone in the affected areas all the best for the future, god bless ❤&🙏🏻 from your friends in the UK. 🥰
thank you for these updates. I wish all workers the best and folks in the entire area of this disaster the best of luck . Please , all be safe
You have done so much work already; clearing, burning, hauling say the trash! I totally admire your dedication and your work. Such beautiful country! Thank you for all you are doing!
A beautiful place but unfortunately it was devastated by a natural disaster. I am a nature lover, I pray for you. Your videos are very meaningful and have good video quality. Thank you
@WorldToday_2024gf thank you 🙏
@@Offroadviking When the surrounding environment recovers and the landscape becomes more beautiful, can you release more videos of the surrounding scene? I am looking forward to this place being beautiful again.
@WorldToday_2024gf Absolutely! Thanks so much for watching, the Chestoa area is right near where I live so I will definitely be posting more video from there as well as the surrounding areas as everyone rebuilds and recovers. Thanks again 🙏
@@Offroadviking 😇😇😇nothing. You are strong mothers, what you do makes not only me but also many viewers touched and admire your intense vitality. I pray for you to be in peace, and one day I will come here to camp small parties with my family under the starry skies and by the streams.
Wonderful video, please keep posting on the progress, I'm sure all of us want to see the recovery of such a beautiful valley that we may visit someday.
Stunning intro. The entire video is superb.
Just a thanks to all the people who are working to make this work for all the people of the valleys. Floods are very ecumenical.
Thanks for the video update! We are on the other side of trAsheville and still lots of work to do, but progress is being made.
Got out for some more rides on the adv and the damage is staggering. Several of my favorite fs roads are being worked on and should reopen soon
I was over that way earlier this week shooting some video...crazy how much is still left to be done. Went up to the Parkway entrance and then down into Asheville, soooo much damage and the trees down just blew my mind.
Have hiked across that area many times. Thank you for the video. It’s hard to see the bridge gone and what’s left of local spots like Uncle Johnny’s. Godspeed to you all as you recover.
Thank you very much for this. It is a beautiful video and overwhelming to see. We have been wondering how Chestoa is doing. A very loved place in our house. This is heartbreaking. We look forward to the river and trees reclaiming their place once this work is done.
Thanks you, looking forward to those days as well. Long road ahead but folks are doing amazing things to move it along for sure.
Great music for this amazing video of the devastating destruction. Thank you.
Good video… especially enjoy drone views of everything! Unimaginable destruction! Didn’t see much railroad repair work going on, however…
After Chestoa Pike bridge collapsed I was really surprised that the Unaka Springs trestle didn't collapse with the amount of debris that piled against its side.
Thank you.❤
Very good job!
I feel bad for the folks living there. I grew up in a flood area but it never got as bad as this. I have to say that now I would never rebuild in a flood area if I had any choice at all even though there is undoubtedly a sentimental attachment to the original home site.
❤Why is the Smoke Blue?? Do you know what they were Spreading out? Ashes after they burn piles of debri or ?? Just curious. Did I know what Things looked like before. But being old And disabled And basically homebound I have CONTINUED TO PRAY FOR ALL AFFECTED BY THIS DEVASTION & All the Loss for So Many in TN & W SC. ❤😢
The blue is probably from the lighting conditions as well as the camera response to what it thinks it sees. The more or less continual haze of this area has a tint which isn't always white.
I’m pretty sure that’s cinders from the railbed upstream that are being moved there. In the countless years that steam locomotives ruled the rails, there was a constant rain of cinders falling on the right of way, and in early times the ashes and cinders from locomotive fireboxes were used as ballast (the rock on the tracks). Those cinders have been covered by new stone ballast many times over the last 50+ years, and compacted by thousands of trains passing over it. In many places in the gorge, the flood removed the track, but the cinders remained untouched! Modern engineering principles probably view the cinders as unsuitable to rebuild the railroad on, so it’s being removed. That’s my guess. To those alarmists, this cinder ballast has existed in the gorge for well over 100 years!
Monumental tasks/challenges ahead to overcome this devastation.
The work is huge clean up and rebuilt.Calgary alberta 2013 floods cause hell wreck cprail around and south.This pure mess pure simple take while clean this thing.Thanks video and update.😮
The railroad bridge at 3:00 has gotta be around a hundred years old but yet it's still standing.
Yeah this is right below my house, I've heard 1916 was when it was built but not 100 percent sure if that's accurate.
Help support my friends in the High Country of North Carolina! They need a hand or two!
Thank you for sharing!
Trees look like the green spongy moss you get from Woodland Scenic and put on trainsets. It's just a trainset, but a whole bunch of folks got hurt.
Nature is all powerful
I need to know what music you are using for this.
I'll have to look the names of the songs up but I get all of my music for the videos off of musicbed
Great job. Can you tell us why they seem to be spreading what looks like topsoil in an obvious floodplain.. just curious
Not sure what the plans are for the Chestoa park area.
This is absolutely incredible. I kept wondering if that bridge was the one that you travel under to get to the campground and beach area. I think it was spray-painted Kyle Busch or just Busch? Thanks for posting!
Absolutely, thanks for watching and commenting 🙏
I sure hope y;all arnt going back and building on flood plains, i know they are nice and flat when its nice out...its a trap.
Thanks!
as an old RXR hand and stockholder, railroad companies have the money to do a hell of a lot more and being that RXR lines carry interstate commerce's they don't have to follow all the state and federal EPA rules and can get waivers by one phone call . GET busy CSX,. Haul all that metal, trees and damages stuff out recycle yards along the RxR line. I've designed rXr lines on sides of mountain that were in the way, next week half the mountain was gone for just one set of tracks.
Was the bridge in the beginning the one that was washed out?! If so, great job getting it back up.
It's not, the bridge that's washed out in the Chestoa area will be out for a good while. They have however reopened the I 26 bridge that washed out.
probably be 2 years before that RR goes through there again. if ever.
I would say a year maybe. The Hi-rail truck might be hauling ballast from the looks of the piles that were there.
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Lots of people things being burned on those river banks. So sad.
lose the dramatic sound track...........try this, instead.
START your video at a known, recognizable landmark.........NARRATE the video..........help someone know exactly WHERE this is...............
I'm good...thanks for your feedback but I'll just keep editing the way that I feel suites the videos best. Some of my stuff is narrated...some is not. As far as the location, it's listed in the title and description. Also, if you don't like the music simple fix is mute it. Appreciate your views and comments though, have a blessed day
@@Offroadviking SPECIFIC locations
@@tooge47 literally in the description.
They can't help being stupid bro ty for the update @@Offroadviking
People like you just got to bitch... There is a button on the thing your watching this with ,,, no matter what.. it's called the mute botton.. They don't need for the likes of you knowing the exact location
Please give these people a hand up, not a hand out!
The River of sorrow! 🙁 so much pain and suffering! So many without anything but their shirts on their backs!