Hurricane Helene

[Delight]

Ingles Market is a big chain of groceries based in Asheville, NC. Flooding has effected their computer system. All stores are only able to accept cash. In Blue Ridge, GA, the manager told me this may be the case for days.

[shaberon]

Posted by Delight (here)
Ingles Market is a big chain of groceries based in Asheville, NC.

Yes, I did a vegan bake sale there once.

I didn't know vegans could cook. It was actually really good!

Lake Lure is over by Bat Cave and:


Panicked local officials initially said the Waterville Dam and the Lake Lure Dam had burst, but both were reportedly still holding as of Friday afternoon.


The main danger is flooding already-waterlogged ground:





Slightly less dramatic than Florida, until a mountain falls on your face.

The coastal people are at least braced for the fact that everything there is quite temporary. It's a racket. At a certain level, they want it to wash out, so it can be rebuilt.

Further inland, you don't really plan for this, and those dams are about a 100 years old. I can't remember how many are thanks to Alcoa. You can't eat fish from those places.

I watched the warnings, and our rain fizzled out and the winds died down and nothing major happened around here. So that was strange. I am sure the results are terrible, for hundreds of miles.

[Sadieblue]

Hello everyone, as I said in a previous post, we were getting so much rain and wind thus all the flooding in surrounding areas here in East Tn. Our power went out Thursday night at 8 pm EDST and it was reported to hopefully be back on late Sunday night.

We remained home that night and next day, we had no generator as our power rarely goes out, so since we were thinking it's still two days or more without power we did manage to find a near by hotel with one vacant room so we packed up and left...after being at the hotel a couple hours our neighbor text us and said the power was back on, so we checked out and came back home. We had it rented for three days, but they gladly gave our money back, they knew a lot of folks around here were having the same problem plus lots of out of town folks relocating from the Storms...We lost lots of trees, mostly came up by the roots the ground was so saturated and power lines down. Plus we had gust of winds up to 65-70 MPH.

Thankful that we are all safe, and so is my family in Fl. Thank you all so much for the prayers and good thoughts.

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Hurricane Helene has been blamed for at least 56 deaths across five states, including 23 people in South Carolina and 11 in Florida. But the death toll is sure to rise as authorities continue to take stock of Helene’s devastation. In hard-hit Buncombe County, North Carolina, where Asheville is located, authorities said they know people died but aren’t announcing anything because communication outages haven’t allowed them to reach relatives of the victims.
Prayers for all the families!🙏
#HurricaneHelene #Ashville #NorthCarolina

https://x.com/MariettaDaviz/status/1840191785005375531

[shaberon]

That's horrendous.

I passed by the edge that told me I-40 was closed except for emergency traffic. The closure was probably at least 100 miles outside of Asheville. You don't just close a major interstate on a whim.

Looks like a nightmare.

Asheville is not Florida, they don't have a business plan based on being whisked away. I would not be surprised if we set up a donation box and if not I am going to suggest it. We can probably get the Army to airlift it if need be. I hope I am not the only one thinking this.

[mountain_jim]

Will catch up on this thread for news and videos as I can, if power stays up.

My location is west of Asheville - not planning to be more specific here than that.

No one in my little valley upstream from my house can drive out, road is a stream bed now, nearly lost access to/from house when small stream washed away some of driveway entrance, but I kept managing floating wood debris during peak of flooding to keep culvert open, saved that entrance minus a foot of top gravel and other ruts. Shared private drive up to that point is now a (mostly dry) partial stream bed, but I moved enough rocks around to clear high spots and fill lower ones, got car out to find no cell towers up or power in whole area, but amazingly came on last night.

Walked upper road beyond house and where power and fiber leaves poles to go underground, now exposed power and fiber due to creek flooding are now in water and above ground - if/when DOT comes to fix road will probably cut those lines so I don't know if power stays up for long or not.

Pole where my fiber comes off of lost 5 feet of earth around it, other poles and wires may be holding it up for now.

All things considered we were lucky - no trees on house and many neighbors lost bridges across stream to their houses, or were evacuated during flooding.

How bad it is still slowly becoming known - with connectivity restored, amazing and horrifying videos will start being shared - saw a drone video of Marshall downtown covered in river, etc.

Copied much of above here, will add I am appreciating this aggregation of news and videos in this thread as we only started getting battery-radio reports of how bad the area has it last night.

[Harmony]

Glad you are ok there Mountain-jim. May you and your community stay safe, thank you for the update. Sending prayers your way.

[gord]

My oldest sister and her family live in Asheville, NC. They're OK, but many many people around them are not OK.

[Le Chat]

Posted by shaberon (here)
I didn't know vegans could cook.

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