Asheville, NC, other parts of Western NC and TN got hit hard by Hurricane Helene. Pretty much all of the roads are blocked or destroyed.

[Ozymandeas]

From what I read, their dam collapsed

 

[The_Sheff]

It’s jacked up that I’m wondering if the Biltmore is gonna run sales this Christmas season.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

That shyt is insane. Mountain Island Lake in Charlotte hit a couple neighborhoods too. I was able to drive down the streets Friday,, they were totally gone 24 hours later. Man I don’t know how Tony of these people will come back from this… Just crazy

 

[Jimmy from Linkedin]

The Water went over the top of the lake lure dam. If it collapsed things would've been much worse. Very lucky that it didn't do so.

Apparently at the time the dam was built with concrete on the Water side and packed earth on the other side. The overtopping could wash away the packed earth leading the water on the dam side to press on the walls until it collapsed. The storm seems to have stopped or moved and that saved tons of lives.

 

[Ozymandeas]

The Water went over the top of the lake lure dam. If it collapsed things would've been much worse. Very lucky that it didn't do so.

Apparently at the time the dam was built with concrete on the Water side and packed earth on the other side. The overtopping could wash away the packed earth leading the water on the dam side to press on the walls until it collapsed. The storm seems to have stopped or moved and that saved tons of lives.

My bad, you're right. From what I'm reading now, they're worried it might collapse but, yea right now it's just too much water flowing over it.

They said it's like three Olympic-sized swimming pools coming over it every few seconds.

 

[Diunx]

No matter how much tech we have, nature can just sends us back to the stone age in a few minutes

 

[jwinfield]

 

[brickfare]

my crumbling US infrastructure bingo card is almost full

 

[concise]

It was still a hurricane that far in?

 

[Doobie Doo]

It was still a hurricane that far in?

I'm still confused how the mountains didn't protect these towns from that level of damage

 

[jwinfield]

It was still a hurricane that far in?

I didn't realize Asheville was so far inland.

This is the part of the disaster movie when the scientist gives the government officials that were questioning him the

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Do Maga still want to reject that gov socialism?

 

[MajesticLion]

It was still a hurricane that far in?

A storm that huge will have the outer bands dropping sustained rainfall long before the eye comes anywhere close. Helene was downgraded to tropical storm only when it got near the GA-SC-NC border.

Live Map: Track the path of Hurricane Helene

The remnants of Hurricane Helene dissipated Saturday, but millions remain without power across the Southeast and officials warned that record-breaking river flooding is ongoing in parts of southern Appalachia.

www.pbs.org

Scroll down for the interactive map.

 

[JT-Money]

Wait until the insurance companies screw everyone over.

 

[Jimmy from Linkedin]

I'm still confused how the mountains didn't protect these towns from that level of damage

It is indeed paradoxical. Instead the mountains concentrated the damage because of the nature of where people can live on the mountains.

that and the dams were completely overpowered. These places are within the smokies and appalachain mountain ranges so when the rain falls its only has one place to go, and if the rivers are already full, the landscape becomes a river.