It felt like a marathon spread over 4 days. One of the related challenges related to all the leaves and small branches that fell during the 3 inches of rain we got in boone everyday before the bigger storm. They clogged up drains and run off ditches creating water backups that then soaked in even more. Super saturated ground then got hit with 12-20 inches after. I was out every day and night trying to clear gutters, trenches, drain pipes and French drains that were clogging repeatedly, which then drove water into my house. All that while dodging falling branches. It was nuts.
Just visited Boone last month, loved my visits to lovely Asheville, born in nearby Greenville SC. My heart goes out to all the victims. Please donate, folks!,
I've been a weather watcher/enthusiast since my early teens. Brad is one of the best meteorologists in the business, and has a passion for his profession. Any talking head can stand in front of a camera and recite the forecast, but Brad will explain the why and how of such weather events such as Helene without all the hype .. plus he'll tell us about celestial events and such. I have a lot of respect for him.
I stumbled across your video last tuesday just to see what the extended forcast was and I was stunned at what could happen. Thanks to you I was able to prepare ahead of time hoping it would fizzle out. BTW I am in the Caldwell county, we had half a dozen trees come down around our house but feel very fortunate thats most of our damage. Thanks for keeping us aware!!!!!!
Thanks So very much for this explanation, Brad. When I first heard of the floods in the mts, I couldn't figure out how the hurricane was still in the gulf. It was confusing. Thanks again.
I recommend Ryan Hall Y'all RUclips channel for any donations. He is a meteorologist with a nonprofit that is very efficient, effective, and quick to be boots on the ground in these natural disasters. He is based in Kentucky. I appreciate local coverage; however, Ryan covers nonstop for 12 hour plus stints with storm trackers who even stop to help with rescues when necessary. His nonprofit has already delivered much including Starlinks for communication. Thanks to Brad whom I also followed very closely during Helene.
Yes!! Ryan Hall Y’All does extraordinary livestream storm coverage. 15 straight hours covering Helene. The website of the same name has a donation page. I’ve given numerous times. He & Brad Panovich are our go-to weather sources!
Yeah, And sells T-shirts and makes it all about himself. Yeah yeah there’s 1 million small weather channels. I’d suggest a lot before that guy i’m sure he appreciates you simping for him, though.. his channels way too much hype
Its pretty simple.... Lots of rain falls in a mountain area .... Rain rushes down the mountains into the low lying areas where it creates deep, fast running water.
It seems like the flood control dams did get caught unprepared, whether that was their own inattention or bad weather forecasting. But with all the rain lately and then a hurricane in the region, it was time to lower water levels in anticipation. The entire purpose of the dams is to prevent flooding like this. This kind of destruction used to happen about once a generation in Appalachian communities, but the modern system of dams has largely stopped it, until this.
@@LorenaBobbittForPresident I live here now. It's still a rainforest. The trees didn't disappear genius...and they are very wet It's a "'Temperate Rainforest Zone'. There's your "Education". But I know you don't really care in your sad world. I'm glad you like your jokes. At least you got something.
There was a forward reaching "tendril" arm of the storm that reached north and arrived in Asheville BEFORE the real storm even hit. Torrential Rain started Wed at 5pm and it rained for two days before the storm even hit. The wind was very bad and I think the mountain elevation took the winds directly. It snapped huge pines on every ridge in half.
That was a separate event from Helene. It had also rained here in Asheville probably 8-10 days in the month before. The rivers were high and the ground was already soft.
@@ThankYouJesusTheChrist Lots of trees and power lines taken down. Some mudslides and flooding. Things are getting back together now, thanks to our great community! Thank you for asking. God Bless!
It’s funny the mountain community doesn’t wait around for the government to come help. They’ll come together and help each each other that’s how it should alwaysbe. God bless them all.🙏🏻 T
You knew it was going to be an “event “ Tuesday.? The accuracy of threat we got in Asheville was poor.. wasn’t till late Thursday night we started receiving “ severe weather “ warnings
Were there coordinated tiered weather evacuation orders for the Appalachian mountains? Would most residents even heed orders for evacuation? They are a fiercely independent and resourceful lot for the most part. And there was no precedent. There is now.
Another “perfect” storm … saturated and already saturated environment… in the mountains it’s not just the amount of rain which was over 20 inches in 48 hours on avg it’s the drop in elevation… the velocity of that water was intense…. And part of the problem is that as you can see from drone footage a lot of the building was on the flat floodplain , which makes sense but you know the flood is coming someday … sad but true…. Heart goes out to these flood victims !!!
I've been wondering when somebody was going to talk about the tornadoes.There were without a doubt tornadoes in Spruce Pine. I lived in Central Florida for years, I know what even the worst hurricane force winds look like, this was much worse. I watched the power pole in front of my house get sheared in half by a circular rotation. Not only that, but all the way down my street there are treetops sheared off all at the exact same level, some of them are twisted around and around. And I'm not talking tiny trees, I'm talking about centuries old trees. That is tornado damage. Matter fact, my neighbors entire house is gone. He said that it was torn apart, and then the North Toe River took what was left. Fireman working in the area also told me that they had concluded the same, that there had been a tornado that went right down my road. Altapass highway. With no doubt, there where tornadoes embedded within the hurricane as well. Parts of my road look post-apocalyptic.
Does this prompt us to question our choices? Do we ask any questions about development and forest and watersheds as a means to both combat climate change and protect regional vulnerability? Has a region like this, the lower Appalachian mountains been thought of as a vulnerable ecosystem? Had fewer homes and roads expansions occurred, would the rare event of a heavy rain system combined with a sudden influx of tropical storm rainfall been mitigated more by a larger more intact forest watershed? Further, is development in mountain regions like in California and Oregon and now southern Appalachia a viable option for human population growth? How can we compare the larger cost vs risk of living in a larger population inside increasingly more vulnerable forested mountainous regions, that were previously much less developed and modified by housing, commercial and transportation structures? How much can we convert forest watersheds into less resilient towns and rural communities?
We didn't know it was going to be bad until Thursday night in SC. The previous forecasts had this storm turning west. It ended up not turning much at all, and we were all caught off guard. By the time we realized it, there wasn't much we could do.
Reminiscent of the 2008 Iowa flood. The afternoon before flood waters came down the Cedar River, there was 5" of rain on top of land that was already water saturated.
Iowa had the same thing in 1993. Remember the farm house floating down the Mississippi River? We had so much rain. Now we have been in a late summer drought for the last several years.
Please don’t waste your money on Red Cross. Look at their numbers. A lot more of your hard earned money goes to actually help the people if you give to operation airdrop, Cajun navy 2016, or Samaritan’s purse.
And ….. here’s why. As a hotel Gm in the 80’s, the Red Cross full time executives and area representatives stayed in upper class hotels, living it up in life style. High class foods and drinks, spas and luxury accommodations. The money was spent. Donate blood but don’t give them money.
Don’t give money to religious organizations; the Red Cross and the National guard are very good at disaster relief. I don’t like why you say such nasty things about these great organizations.
Asheville is making a quicker recovery than outlying areas like Swannanoa. Smaller towns in WNC need the most help. Many of the devastated areas in Asheville did not have homes, they were primarily businesses or art studios by the river. Trees falling damaged many of the homes in WNC and Asheville. Asheville is talked about most because of tourism but the smaller towns need more help right now, a month later.
@@sumiland6445 Thank You for understanding My Fears Right Now-The Point of NO RETURN- and Prayers for ALL.....GOD REMEMBER America and forgive us for Sins KNOWN and UNMOWN
@@Zaralyn955 As long as we have breath on this earth, we are responsible for the way we treat others. There is no karma or there wouldn't be anyone left, but there is life after this one where each will stand before the Creator and everything we've done will be laid out before us. Compassion, empathy and gererosity of spirit is never wrong.
For years there have been three North Carolina’s, east of I-95, west of I-95 and west of I-77. Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill are liberal strong holds.
I have a portable solar power battery station, I can charge phones, run my 12 volt dc TC charge and run laptops tablet my 12 volt dc fridge, charge flash lights lights fans CB radios, Ham radios, sat phones, long range static hand held walkie talkies.. My point is... I'm prepared.. I've survived 17 floods power outages many times... I have a kayak, ice chest extra water ... My point is... people should be prepared.. no one ever came to help me... so please learn to care for yourselves and help others,.
No one can prepare for being in the path of a very fast moving torrent carrying debris of all kinds, trees and rocks. If that enormous force washed away your house what good would any of your preparations do? It would be gone.
@@bruceb5481 I don't disagree. But that isn't what happened he spent from his own statement enough time watching them to warn them.. he did what most do he just watched when he should have reacted..
@@danwaller5312 Maybe the same thing that caused climate change since the world began. Scientists find what they are paid to find, mostly, so I know better than to trust them.
Is this then a COVID like once in a 100 years event that we just can't predict or prepare for? Or, do we like now many public health specialists say, continue to monitor and prepare and even affect new policies to be in a better capacity to avert or at least lessen the impact of such severe events like coronavirus pandemics and climate change? Are these types of extreme events broadly related? Can we attribute an increase in the spread of infectious diseases as well as catastrophic fires and floods to human expansion into vulnerable ecosystems.? Many virologists worry about human population expansion into wild ecosystems, as a direct causation of increase in contact between human population and nonhuman populations where now zoonotic spread of virus is becoming more likely. Are we also by expanding human population into more remote mountain forest watersheds likewise impacting the watersheds ability to absorb rainfall, and slowly recharge groundwater aquafers and mitigate the impact of severe rainfall events by reducing horizontal sheet flow of storm water runoff?
This wouldn't apply as much to this hurricane but I feel we are paving over so much ground that water has no where to go. I live between two fairly big cities and they just keep building and spreading. No one should live or farm in a flood plain because it is a FLOOD plain. This is bad enough so now this government adds millions more to our countries and then preaches to us about the environment.
I am afraid we have damaged the forests and the greater watersheds with increasingly more expansion of human development. How much development and the resulting reduction of forest watersheds is too much? I suspect local and regional government want development to proceed as developed lands produce more economic activity and contribute more to government income via property tax and sales tax. Raw undeveloped forest land is not so economically productive. But, here we are now and the local and regional governments are not able to cope with extreme events. Now the economic activity will crash to a pre development value, where cities like Ashville will see their tax base decline for the recovery period and possibly beyond. So, did we overdevelope the Smokey Mountains too like we here in Florida see coastal overdevelopment and destruction of coastal mangrove estuary systems? Mangrove estuaries are important marine habitats that have a dual function of drastically reducing Storm Surge effect on Florida's coasts. Some things to consider.
That is a scrap yard y'all are showing ppl, it's always looked like that. Biltmore iron and metal. I sell to them all the time. Plz don't lie for clicks.
Maybe we could not develop as much of our more vulnerable regions? I am not suggesting depopulation. But ... just because we can develop a vulnerable region, should we? The temptation is to build. See here in Florida. So, has Florida reached an overdeveloped condition? I hear voices like Musk calling for more people Calling for more growth. But is that prudent? Sure, he, as so many business leaders, sees the need to continue growth endlessly. Sure, he will only become richer and richer as a consequence of such expansion. But can humanity and Nature be continually stressed? When is the breaking point reached?
@@jaz8935TN only sent 700 guardsman to the middle east recently, there are 10,000 members in Tennessee. The last I read there is a total of 5,500 national guard members activated now for hurricane relief
You could donate to Christian Aid Ministries, they are an Amish Mennonite organization and they already have their disaster response crews out cleaning up. They have a website with donate options.
Thank you, but in this day and age the younger generations aren't being taught anything useful in the school except for pronouns and that a boy can become a girl.
Why it did so much damage?? It dropped a horrendous amount water in an area over a short period of time. Not too difficult to figure out. Whatever you do don't say a word about climate change.
Brad took 6 minutes to tell you what happened…..I’ll be much more brief: A.Hurricanes are gonna get stronger B. The mountains ain’t going anywhere C. The part of the hurricane not clearing the mountains hits the mountains D. The part hitting the mountains comes back down the mountains E. If you are in the way of what comes back down…..you are in a world of shit!
Oh the horror of having to listen to 6 minutes of this intelligent man explaining what happened in this biblical event. Don’t f’n watch if it’s to much of your valuable time!
😂, please explain to me how hurricanes were formed before your magical chemtrails became a thing ? Hurricanes have been happening long before man walked the earth.
It is really neat to see so many non-government agencies stepping up and doing what the government is not doing. Maybe we can send a message to FEMA and other money sucking agencies that they are no longer needed!
Which government? Your mayors, your state governors, the feds? Biden prepositioned help and certified the emergency authorizations before the hurricane hit. Everyone at every level is pitching in. Sick of the politicking and lies.
This is an unprecedented DISASTER! Only so many government people to go around! Ever hear the expression: All hands on deck? Federal government is there. State governments are there. Local governments are there. Private organizations are there. Public utility companies from other areas are there. And more help is on the way. Not everything can happen in moments or even days!
People are wandering around Asheville asking the same thing. FEMA is stopping people from helping. Buttigieg just went on air demanding people Stop sending drones carrying supplies (nothing else can get through). People from one town said they were gathered together and told they will not be allowed to rebuild.
It felt like a marathon spread over 4 days. One of the related challenges related to all the leaves and small branches that fell during the 3 inches of rain we got in boone everyday before the bigger storm. They clogged up drains and run off ditches creating water backups that then soaked in even more. Super saturated ground then got hit with 12-20 inches after.
I was out every day and night trying to clear gutters, trenches, drain pipes and French drains that were clogging repeatedly, which then drove water into my house. All that while dodging falling branches.
It was nuts.
This was the best report. Thank you.
Just visited Boone last month, loved my visits to lovely Asheville, born in nearby Greenville SC. My heart goes out to all the victims. Please donate, folks!,
He's exactly right. Where i live in Pickens County,SC it had rained 15" before Hurricane Helene had hit daylight Friday morning 🌄
Yes sir. Same up here in Swannanoa and Weaverville NC.
Thank you Brad for being a beacon for assistance in Western NC.
I've been a weather watcher/enthusiast since my early teens. Brad is one of the best meteorologists in the business, and has a passion for his profession. Any talking head can stand in front of a camera and recite the forecast, but Brad will explain the why and how of such weather events such as Helene without all the hype .. plus he'll tell us about celestial events and such. I have a lot of respect for him.
I stumbled across your video last tuesday just to see what the extended forcast was and I was stunned at what could happen. Thanks to you I was able to prepare ahead of time hoping it would fizzle out. BTW I am in the Caldwell county, we had half a dozen trees come down around our house but feel very fortunate thats most of our damage. Thanks for keeping us aware!!!!!!
Listening to Brad reminds me of listening to Tom Skilling (WGN Chicago) for many decades. You folks in Charlotte are fortunate.
How many perfect storms are happening these days is astonishing
Almost surgical, weird.
These days? This trend has been growing for almost 30 years.
Thanks So very much for this explanation, Brad. When I first heard of the floods in the mts, I couldn't figure out how the hurricane was still in the gulf. It was confusing. Thanks again.
Same. Our power and internet went out Wednesday afternoon, before the storm even hit Florida, so I ended up completely confused.
Very professional weatherman 👍
This truly was an unprecedented weather event
When you live in the mountains you need to be prepared to survive on your own for several weeks with no outside help.
I recommend Ryan Hall Y'all RUclips channel for any donations. He is a meteorologist with a nonprofit that is very efficient, effective, and quick to be boots on the ground in these natural disasters. He is based in Kentucky. I appreciate local coverage; however, Ryan covers nonstop for 12 hour plus stints with storm trackers who even stop to help with rescues when necessary. His nonprofit has already delivered much including Starlinks for communication. Thanks to Brad whom I also followed very closely during Helene.
Yes!! Ryan Hall Y’All does extraordinary livestream storm coverage. 15 straight hours covering Helene. The website of the same name has a donation page. I’ve given numerous times. He & Brad Panovich are our go-to weather sources!
Yeah, And sells T-shirts and makes it all about himself. Yeah yeah there’s 1 million small weather channels. I’d suggest a lot before that guy i’m sure he appreciates you simping for him, though.. his channels way too much hype
Ryan Hall is one of them. A part of the deception - Wake Up!
@@Michaelgrxu begrudge him the ability to buy software and equipment and raise a family?
WEATHERMAN PLUS, is my "dude!"
Its pretty simple.... Lots of rain falls in a mountain area .... Rain rushes down the mountains into the low lying areas where it creates deep, fast running water.
Thanks for very good and useful information.
It seems like the flood control dams did get caught unprepared, whether that was their own inattention or bad weather forecasting. But with all the rain lately and then a hurricane in the region, it was time to lower water levels in anticipation. The entire purpose of the dams is to prevent flooding like this. This kind of destruction used to happen about once a generation in Appalachian communities, but the modern system of dams has largely stopped it, until this.
Try every five years now. Last time was 2019.
not sure if the TVA was involved but they’re suspect as hell
This area is Considered a RainForest . Weatherman can explain . Very Beautiful Place .
Was....hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha
@@LorenaBobbittForPresident no, hurricane or not this is a rainforest
@@quintile9705 you need an education.
@@LorenaBobbittForPresident I live here now. It's still a rainforest. The trees didn't disappear genius...and they are very wet It's a "'Temperate Rainforest Zone'. There's your "Education". But I know you don't really care in your sad world. I'm glad you like your jokes. At least you got something.
@@LorenaBobbittForPresident Really? You find death and destruction funny? Special place in Hell for you.
Crushing convergence of catastrophic weather events😢
There was a forward reaching "tendril" arm of the storm that reached north and arrived in Asheville BEFORE the real storm even hit. Torrential Rain started Wed at 5pm and it rained for two days before the storm even hit. The wind was very bad and I think the mountain elevation took the winds directly. It snapped huge pines on every ridge in half.
That was a separate event from Helene. It had also rained here in Asheville probably 8-10 days in the month before. The rivers were high and the ground was already soft.
Yes, the rain started Tuesday afternoon in Highlands/Cashiers area.
Do you have any idea how that area fared with hurricane?
@@ThankYouJesusTheChrist Lots of trees and power lines taken down. Some mudslides and flooding. Things are getting back together now, thanks to our great community! Thank you for asking. God Bless!
It’s funny the mountain community doesn’t wait around for the government to come help. They’ll come together and help each each other that’s how it should alwaysbe. God bless them all.🙏🏻 T
@@NunezRoldan That is why MAGA is begging for FEMA to come and take away their guns... Why won't Kamala twinkle her nose and make everything better?
If you experienced Irene in Vermont 15 years ago you saw this coming, but people just couldn’t fathom it when we tried to warn them.
A life time of building the beauty. And just a moment of destruction. 😢😢😢🙏🙏🙏
You knew it was going to be an “event “ Tuesday.? The accuracy of threat we got in Asheville was poor.. wasn’t till late Thursday night we started receiving “ severe weather “ warnings
I believe Meghan on WLOS used the term catastropic event on Wednesday.
Ugghhh…do you have a TV or internet?
Did you listen to clip that you commented on?
Were there coordinated tiered weather evacuation orders for the Appalachian mountains? Would most residents even heed orders for evacuation? They are a fiercely independent and resourceful lot for the most part. And there was no precedent. There is now.
Another “perfect” storm … saturated and already saturated environment… in the mountains it’s not just the amount of rain which was over 20 inches in 48 hours on avg it’s the drop in elevation… the velocity of that water was intense…. And part of the problem is that as you can see from drone footage a lot of the building was on the flat floodplain , which makes sense but you know the flood is coming someday … sad but true…. Heart goes out to these flood victims !!!
I've been wondering when somebody was going to talk about the tornadoes.There were without a doubt tornadoes in Spruce Pine. I lived in Central Florida for years, I know what even the worst hurricane force winds look like, this was much worse. I watched the power pole in front of my house get sheared in half by a circular rotation. Not only that, but all the way down my street there are treetops sheared off all at the exact same level, some of them are twisted around and around. And I'm not talking tiny trees, I'm talking about centuries old trees. That is tornado damage. Matter fact, my neighbors entire house is gone. He said that it was torn apart, and then the North Toe River took what was left. Fireman working in the area also told me that they had concluded the same, that there had been a tornado that went right down my road. Altapass highway. With no doubt, there where tornadoes embedded within the hurricane as well. Parts of my road look post-apocalyptic.
I'm glad you and home are safe!!! Your poor neighbor... I don't know what to say.
Our Boone NC Home Was Totally Destroyed by a Landslide during Hurricane Helene. We Need Cleanup Assistance and Financial Aid.
That damage is unbelievable 😮😢 How many towns (known) were affected by this storm? Genuinely asking anyone who might know,..
People criticize living in CA for earthquake and fire. Where can you live without natural disasters. These folks need money. Lotsa money. Now.
Does this prompt us to question our choices?
Do we ask any questions about development and forest and watersheds as a means to both combat climate change and protect regional vulnerability?
Has a region like this, the lower Appalachian mountains been thought of as a vulnerable ecosystem? Had fewer homes and roads expansions occurred, would the rare event of a heavy rain system combined with a sudden influx of tropical storm rainfall been mitigated more by a larger more intact forest watershed?
Further, is development in mountain regions like in California and Oregon and now southern Appalachia a viable option for human population growth?
How can we compare the larger cost vs risk of living in a larger population inside increasingly more vulnerable forested mountainous regions, that were previously much less developed and modified by housing, commercial and transportation structures?
How much can we convert forest watersheds into less resilient towns and rural communities?
We didn't know it was going to be bad until Thursday night in SC. The previous forecasts had this storm turning west. It ended up not turning much at all, and we were all caught off guard. By the time we realized it, there wasn't much we could do.
Right, the storm can always swerve at the last moment.
@@hermanhale9258 Lesson learned. I don't know why I even trusted the weatherman. They can't predict the weather on a daily basis.
Reminiscent of the 2008 Iowa flood. The afternoon before flood waters came down the Cedar River, there was 5" of rain on top of land that was already water saturated.
Iowa had the same thing in 1993. Remember the farm house floating down the Mississippi River? We had so much rain. Now we have been in a late summer drought for the last several years.
Prayers 💙🙏💙
🙏🏽🙏🏽From Detroit.
Thank u--great explanation
My ancestor founded Boone, NC. Prayers to all. Also money.
Please don’t waste your money on Red Cross. Look at their numbers. A lot more of your hard earned money goes to actually help the people if you give to operation airdrop, Cajun navy 2016, or Samaritan’s purse.
And ….. here’s why. As a hotel Gm in the 80’s, the Red Cross full time executives and area representatives stayed in upper class hotels, living it up in life style. High class foods and drinks, spas and luxury accommodations. The money was spent. Donate blood but don’t give them money.
Yes, exactly. There is a BBQ charity as well, Slap Your Daddy is part of it.
Red Cross is the equivalent of Goodwill. At one time, a wonderful value. Soon overtaken by overpaid CEOs and managers. Disgusting
Don’t give money to religious organizations; the Red Cross and the National guard are very good at disaster relief. I don’t like why you say such nasty things about these great organizations.
Asheville is making a quicker recovery than outlying areas like Swannanoa. Smaller towns in WNC need the most help. Many of the devastated areas in Asheville did not have homes, they were primarily businesses or art studios by the river. Trees falling damaged many of the homes in WNC and Asheville. Asheville is talked about most because of tourism but the smaller towns need more help right now, a month later.
30-35 inches of rain is unimaginable
That’s like 3 yrs of rain where I am in northern Alberta
Donate to either Operation Airdrop or to Samaritans Purse. They are able to be on the ground quickly and they have low overhead.
Operation airdrop is in fullswing at the hickory regional airport if anyone wants to drop supplies off
I have read some very bad things about Samaritan's Purse and the founder. Makes it difficult to know who to send money to.
Samaritans Purse HQ is located in Boone, NC. They know the mountainous terrain and disaster relief strategy.
Or Cajun Navy
I-40 is supposed to be closed until Sept 2025 between TN and NC. Parts of I-26 closed until Dec 2024
Whatttt? That's a CRUCIAL INTERESTATE
If you are lucky
@@Zaralyn955 yes it is. There's no alternate route easily used.
@@sumiland6445 Thank You for understanding My Fears Right Now-The Point of NO RETURN- and Prayers for ALL.....GOD REMEMBER America and forgive us for Sins KNOWN and UNMOWN
@@Zaralyn955 As long as we have breath on this earth, we are responsible for the way we treat others. There is no karma or there wouldn't be anyone left, but there is life after this one where each will stand before the Creator and everything we've done will be laid out before us. Compassion, empathy and gererosity of spirit is never wrong.
From New Orleans, best wishes with Milton, he looks to be a monster. Forecasters have it going through Florida, and out to sea.
For years there have been three North Carolina’s, east of I-95, west of I-95 and west of I-77.
Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill are liberal strong holds.
IT WAS A HURRICAN ON STERRIODS , DAYS OF RAIN BEFORE
I don't understand how anyone would think that that much forecasted rain wasn't going to run down hill and fill the valleys.
Brad did a great job
Enhanced wind damage. Hmm.
All that lithium…. Man, it’s like finding gold!
The two deposits are far south from the devastation
Another foolish child spouting a conspiracy theory.
Cult member detected
God have mercy of your people 🙏
I assume Helene will be a retired name.
I donate.
We need regional emergency communication systems. Power out and nothing kills.
When They say,I'll be Honest with You, Look Out!
I have a portable solar power battery station, I can charge phones, run my 12 volt dc TC charge and run laptops tablet my 12 volt dc fridge, charge flash lights lights fans CB radios, Ham radios, sat phones, long range static hand held walkie talkies.. My point is... I'm prepared.. I've survived 17 floods power outages many times... I have a kayak, ice chest extra water ... My point is... people should be prepared.. no one ever came to help me... so please learn to care for yourselves and help others,.
These are poor communities up in the hills
No one can prepare for being in the path of a very fast moving torrent carrying debris of all kinds, trees and rocks. If that enormous force washed away your house what good would any of your preparations do? It would be gone.
@@bruceb5481 I don't disagree. But that isn't what happened he spent from his own statement enough time watching them to warn them.. he did what most do he just watched when he should have reacted..
Why aren’t the troops being called out
Ummm, they are. Military helicopters all over the mountains.
the inevitable consequences of ignoring the overwhelming science on climate ,is a horror show and politicians and media refuse to address the cause
You are 100% correct. They just won't listen. Then act all thunder struck when there's a catastrophic event. It'll get worse. And worse.
If they could predict these events, that would mean they understood the process. They don't.
So define the CAUSE you believe is causing this
@@danwaller5312 Maybe the same thing that caused climate change since the world began. Scientists find what they are paid to find, mostly, so I know better than to trust them.
🙏🙏🙏 Helene victims. 🙏🙏🙏for Florida as Milton approaches.
Is this then a COVID like once in a 100 years event that we just can't predict or prepare for?
Or, do we like now many public health specialists say, continue to monitor and prepare and even affect new policies to be in a better capacity to avert or at least lessen the impact of such severe events like coronavirus pandemics and climate change?
Are these types of extreme events broadly related? Can we attribute an increase in the spread of infectious diseases as well as catastrophic fires and floods to human expansion into vulnerable ecosystems.?
Many virologists worry about human population expansion into wild ecosystems, as a direct causation of increase in contact between human population and nonhuman populations where now zoonotic spread of virus is becoming more likely.
Are we also by expanding human population into more remote mountain forest watersheds likewise impacting the watersheds ability to absorb rainfall, and slowly recharge groundwater aquafers and mitigate the impact of severe rainfall events by reducing horizontal sheet flow of storm water runoff?
People have lived in those hills for a couple hundred years now...its called Appalachia and typically poor communities
This wouldn't apply as much to this hurricane but I feel we are paving over so much ground that water has no where to go. I live between two fairly big cities and they just keep building and spreading. No one should live or farm in a flood plain because it is a FLOOD plain. This is bad enough so now this government adds millions more to our countries and then preaches to us about the environment.
Mother nature delivered a nuke from Florida to the Great Lakes.
I can GUARANTEE you that there was human assistance in exponentially intensifying this weather event. I am not 99% sure, I am >100% sure.
Climate change is caused by humans, so yeah. The storm was made worse by climate change and therefore worsened by humans.
I am afraid we have damaged the forests and the greater watersheds with increasingly more expansion of human development.
How much development and the resulting reduction of forest watersheds is too much? I suspect local and regional government want development to proceed as developed lands produce more economic activity and contribute more to government income via property tax and sales tax. Raw undeveloped forest land is not so economically productive.
But, here we are now and the local and regional governments are not able to cope with extreme events.
Now the economic activity will crash to a pre development value, where cities like Ashville will see their tax base decline for the recovery period and possibly beyond.
So, did we overdevelope the Smokey Mountains too like we here in Florida see coastal overdevelopment and destruction of coastal mangrove estuary systems?
Mangrove estuaries are important marine habitats that have a dual function of drastically reducing Storm Surge effect on Florida's coasts.
Some things to consider.
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Looks like it did more damage to the valleys than the mountains.
Why not have a decent map up while you're describing the geographic area??????
Nice to see y'all in your beautiful , pricey suits, but ...
Yes, I agree with you, HArd to 'visualize' ...
That is a scrap yard y'all are showing ppl, it's always looked like that. Biltmore iron and metal. I sell to them all the time. Plz don't lie for clicks.
FEMA is out of money 😳💰. Where is Mayorkas ????😳💰😩💸
FEMA is not out of money. More Glenn Beck lies.
Trumper bullshit!
Question. Is it true that 500 body bags have already been used in North Carolina?
I thought death total is 200 something? Aedin
The official death toll is well below that. Not sure how someone counts “used” body bags without deaths.
poor Brad his voice is cracking up
those donations that you can donate money to they can also use that money in a corrupt way
Also the computergame snowrunner just became real :D
Maybe we could not develop as much of our more vulnerable regions? I am not suggesting depopulation. But ... just because we can develop a vulnerable region, should we?
The temptation is to build.
See here in Florida. So, has Florida reached an overdeveloped condition? I hear voices like Musk calling for more people Calling for more growth. But is that prudent? Sure, he, as so many business leaders, sees the need to continue growth endlessly. Sure, he will only become richer and richer as a consequence of such expansion. But can humanity and Nature be continually stressed?
When is the breaking point reached?
Waldo Ranch
Why not send the National Guard or has all the money been sent and spent for wars-for-profit in foreign lands?
Xiden sent NC and TN National Guard to the Middle East the very day rain started.
Florida sent guard up to help.
@@jaz8935TN only sent 700 guardsman to the middle east recently, there are 10,000 members in Tennessee. The last I read there is a total of 5,500 national guard members activated now for hurricane relief
5,5,500 national guard members activated now for hurricane relief
@@jaz8935Grow up or man up. You choose.
Isn’t it rare for a hurricane to travel so far inland
no
Johnson Forest
I would be willing to help....
But l won't send money!
It always ends up in the wrong pockets!
You could donate to Christian Aid Ministries, they are an Amish Mennonite organization and they already have their disaster response crews out cleaning up. They have a website with donate options.
Donate to Samaritan's Purse. Just Google their website. They are HIGHLY respected, an organization that can be trusted.
Go to the people directly and hand them money. That's what I do.
Stanton Parkways
Josefa Islands
Because they stole all that land from the Cherokee and with treachery.....I don't feel too compassionate for those thieves.
Cummerata Streets
Addison Plain
Arvid Lodge
So they can get lithium duh
Aufderhar Forest
Ignatius Ranch
Daddy storm MILTON is on its way
DEWs.
Jayson Fall
Its not rocket science rain falls downhill
Thank you, but in this day and age the younger generations aren't being taught anything useful in the school except for pronouns and that a boy can become a girl.
@@Musicman-y7vYeah they need to ban more books. Keep em dumb. Way easier to manipulate. How else is a Billionaire supposed to sell his gold sneakers?
Synchronicity
Why it did so much damage?? It dropped a horrendous amount water in an area over a short period of time. Not too difficult to figure out. Whatever you do don't say a word about climate change.
Just wondering how much aid Ukraine has sent?
$179 billion. $2 billion just a few days before this when Zelensky was in PA campaigning for Cackles and signing bombs with Shapiro.
Denesik Rest
DO NOT DONATE TO THE RED CROSS
wtf is the military even for ?
Brad took 6 minutes to tell you what happened…..I’ll be much more brief:
A.Hurricanes are gonna get stronger
B. The mountains ain’t going anywhere
C. The part of the hurricane not clearing the mountains hits the mountains
D. The part hitting the mountains comes back down the mountains
E. If you are in the way of what comes back down…..you are in a world of shit!
Yes, but Brad was insightful.
Yes he was; but the mentally challenged people of the south may not understand brad!
(Even a fool can understand my explanation!)
Oh the horror of having to listen to 6 minutes of this intelligent man explaining what happened in this biblical event. Don’t f’n watch if it’s to much of your valuable time!
The only way to the Father (GOD is through me- Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior
Zzzzzz 😴
Didn't God cause this?
Now can you explain why they were spraying chemtrails ahead of the storm? We know that "cloud seeding" creates more rain 😒
Exactly. The coal plants are the rain makers along with the evaporative coolers we are under attack every day
Talk to a science teacher or even a science student. Not chem trails or space lasers. Just good ole fashioned climate driven storm
@bribri7082 you really believe that don't you?
Give it a rest, troll.
😂, please explain to me how hurricanes were formed before your magical chemtrails became a thing ? Hurricanes have been happening long before man walked the earth.
Thank you Elon Musk.
It is really neat to see so many non-government agencies stepping up and doing what the government is not doing. Maybe we can send a message to FEMA and other money sucking agencies that they are no longer needed!
Which government? Your mayors, your state governors, the feds? Biden prepositioned help and certified the emergency authorizations before the hurricane hit.
Everyone at every level is pitching in. Sick of the politicking and lies.
This is an unprecedented DISASTER! Only so many government people to go around! Ever hear the expression: All hands on deck? Federal government is there. State governments are there. Local governments are there. Private organizations are there. Public utility companies from other areas are there. And more help is on the way. Not everything can happen in moments or even days!
What is FEMA doing? Aren’t that agency that is suppose to 100% suppose to help in these emergencies?
People are wandering around Asheville asking the same thing. FEMA is stopping people from helping. Buttigieg just went on air demanding people Stop sending drones carrying supplies (nothing else can get through). People from one town said they were gathered together and told they will not be allowed to rebuild.
This damage only came out on Thursday. Today is Saturday, 2 days. Duh. And F is on the ground in Asheville now.