People get mad when you lower lake levels and get mad when you don't. You are in a flood plain !! Homes are built where they should NEVER have been built in first place.
You are being idiotic, he mentions he experienced the same in 2019, many cities have systems in place to avoid flooding, this has happened before and its insane no forethought was given to prepare for the next disaster.
I don't know where YOU LIVE - but, your assumption is INCORRECT ! MR. Wylie started a hydraulic electrical power generating plant many years ago ..... Duke Power grew since then. The Properties have increased as the Lake did ..... the other two lakes are similar in their development and use Up from us on Wylie ..... the Catawba river is LONG USED FOR NEEDS AS WELL AS RECREATION and Wylie alone is 325 miles of shoreline .... Norman Lake is larger still. The lake was mishandled this time WITH HELENE and the substations problems have been additional problems. NO EARLY LOWERING WHICH IS TO DUKE POWER ADVANTAGE ...... was undertaken .... it caused undue damage. jj
Before watching this video, I was asking myself the same question. Why didn’t they open the dam to allow water to flow out to lower the levels before the storms coming.
Ask yourself this question: What is Trump's answer to the crisis of climate change? "Drill, baby, drill". We cannot afford 4 more years of pandering to big oil.
@@nankerphelge3771Just stop your ignorant comment and think, we don’t want EV’s that use more fossil fuels than drill baby drill. And you won’t realize you are on the wrong side until the socialist soldiers have their boots on your neck.
Duke Energy is NOT your friendly neighborhood corporation. You are a means to an end to them. Government CAN fix this, but you have to work together. Hold them ALL accountable.
@@u2mister17mighty dumpsterish of you! Of course only morons believe the repukes when it comes to regulations. There is a perfectly easy mathematical formula for lowering lake levels with weather forcasts of approaching precipitation. More repuke idiocy is not believing climate change!
Upwards of 35 inches of rain reported in some spots of NC mountains. This was an unprecedented amount of rain in a short amount of time. This was a catastrophic weather event. I am heartbroken for everyone impacted by this tragedy.
I agree with him about why the water was not lowered I live in Greene county Tn and the TVA did not draw down the river and the gate to draw down the rain very s still closed and thanks to them we lost most of the bridges over the river and the ones that did not fall in are now closed
It's been cracked since 1930. Many men are buried in the cement work... If many remembered the history of the dam it would be even more haunted than it is.
Like he didn’t know it was going to flood? Wait he did and didn’t move a thing. Also the whole reason for flood insurance isn’t to rebuild, it’s to move somewhere safer.
My brother bought land next to a stream, but he's got about 25 feet of elevation to where his house sits. Personally, I once rented an apartment on the third floor of a former hotel (more than a century old) that was about 15 feet from the high-tide line on a bay in Massachusetts. We had a 100-year tidal surge, knee deep on the first floor, and the building was condemned, because the electric system was all shorted out. Whole lot of inconvenience. My car, in the parking lot across the street, on higher ground, had a water line about two inches above the door bottoms, and appeared dry inside, but enough water got in to fry the computer modules that were installed on the floor (on the floor!), and the car just died a month later. Still, I have no net regrets about living there. It was a few years of serenity after a brutal series of experiences of women's inhumanity to man.
I live 20 miles from the west central coast of Florida and I had no problems with this hurricane. But I know in any year I could lose my place. I have a camper that I hook up , load up and can leave at a moments notice.
2.5 years of rain in 24 hours. There is no dam that can handle that. That's unheard of. There are 150 yr old trees washing down the river. A warmer atmosphere holds more moisture (basic 10th grade science) right now the earths atmosphere has 6-8% more moisture capacity than 30 yrs ago. All it needs is a trigger. The trigger was named Helene, this time.
My friends if you live underneath ANY dam in the USA I suggest you move. Pack your car, tent, sleeping bags. Do not think it cannot or won't happen. Move Inland. Not within 10 to 20 kilometres of oceans or Major rivers..
I'm close to Grand Rivers, KY.... Which is located between 2 major dams.. Would have to go a looong ways. Hope all head these warnings and keep a close eye. God speed
The key word you stated was - on the flood plain. Flood Plains flood. That is what nature intended flood plains to do. So, if you build on the flood plain and the flood plain floods your house again, how can you be mad?
@@KennethGreenCMP was it a flood plain before or after Duke built the dam, if the billionaires can explain why they didn't lower water levels ahead of a known storm I can't wait to hear it
@@KennethGreenCMP This is why engineers get paid big bucks? On the east coast, we can expect hurricanes and giving thought into where excess water is going in the event of excess rain SHOULD be a priority when dealing with dams; especially dams with age on them.
@@tenerifecats6652 The water should go to the flood plain. In this case, these people know they live on a flood plain and raised their homes. The only way to solve the problem would be spend millions in tax dollars to protect their home built in dangerous place. Where I live where companies are suing the government to build on the flood plain. Then these are the same people complaining the government should do something solve the problem.
@@KennethGreenCMP Kind of like that one homeowner in Hawaii that used flame resistant roofing material; and kept the underbrush cut down around his house? That was the only house left standing and looked 'untouched' after the wildfire. But that also takes money, and raising houses takes a ton of cash too. I KNOW that just replacing a tiny 2 ft section of water piping under my house was 'guestimated' to cost almost $1K (with a crawl space that has ample space to get under there). Mainly because there is a lack of tradesmen in certain fields that drive up the costs? I've actually watched many of those 'house tour' videos; some of them actually in the areas that are getting the terrible flooding now. And I've thought...well that house is sitting next to a stream...etc. How many miles away are the dams that are causing these issues; and how much of a threat was exposed to them when they were buying their homes? Problem is the issue is actually 'manmade' with these dams. Can we agree that the dams were NOT put there as 'flood control' but water retention. But the 'water retention' solution is causing another very impactful issue - severe flooding! And as these structures age, the problem will get worse.
Look at the far upstream end of this. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY expected the volume of water that fell in the mountains. Those who live on the Catawba River should be glad there were other rivers to help channel the floodwaters. Imagine what it would have been like if it were just the Catawba. If you live on a river or lake made from a river, you should know you're going to be flooded at some point and not cry to the watershed management when it happens.
@@Oldschoolrules123 The power should not be going out for hours or days because of rain or high winds due to a hurricane thousands of miles away. And I’m not even saying that we should bury power lines (but we really should). Stupid squirrels getting barbecued are responsible for 20% of power outages. What about doing something to discourage them from running on power lines?
I live on the LAKE Wylie in the town of Clover, SC ! It has never been THIS HIGH in water level .... it's over the rip rap onto the lawn of my across the cove neighbor .... my side is over the lawn and brush - though I am on a hill to the House ! I feel for the LAKE PROPERTY OWNERS ..... we have Power outages and way too high lake / river levels ..... Duke power is concerned with efficiently (read profitably generating electrical power .... they need to COOL THE IMMENSE HEAT GENERATED BY NUCLEAR ENERGY PROCESS through heat exchange piping so as to separate the Lake water from the Rods immersed water ..... we have muddy lake from their constant changing lake levels to suit more rapid water movement through the Plant cooling system. Just a sad system that erodes lake shore ....... they are insulated from actual accountability. Pitiful.
FLOOD PLAINS. When you build on them you'll pay the price. Your choice. I feel for these people but zoning should never had allow this. Now it's a flood PAIN.
Water in the lake is money in the bank. Duke will hold onto as much of it as they can for as long as they can. Check to see if the lake level was within F.E.R.C. specifications at the time the flooding occurred. I know that it wasn't at lake Murray in October 2015.
You can't predict the path of a hurricane accurately enough a week out. I'm sorry this happened, but at least he's rich and can rebuild his lakefront home.
@@fzr1000981 Depending on the underwriting, they may not be covered. The first thing my insurance did was study the geography in my area to determine the likelihood of flooding before they chose give full coverage without requiring a flood risk rider. I was fortunate because my home is not in a flood plain; but there is an area nearby that is.
@@emyoji1316how many inches did the hurricane bring i wonder and then the hills deliver a lot of water as the land floods that picture of the dam with a ocean of water behind was impressive 😮
I'm betting Dukes contract w the county tells them where to flood. Which shows the government really doesn't like the middle class and lower. The other are that would have flooded would have been the millionaire homes on Lake Norman.
Ok her in Ohio most of Dam are used for Recreation and lowering the water level cost the district money because the water levels too low for boating. Catch 22 going to use the reservoir for its purpose. Flood control
Build or buy in a flood plane it happens. Not only is it from the rain but all the water that fell in the mountains too. Hate it for these people hut it is the chance you take
Damn technicians knew the impact could have been lessened by opening damns downstream. What took them so long to act on information they had prior to the impact? Duke energy always seems to do too little too late then charge the consumer for their mistake.
@@Snarf_Le_Wombat You are giving the authorities and their engineers a ‘get out of jail free’ card. Especially older dams that cause a lot of damage, where is it likely to be capped and overflow needs to be addressed by engineers! Maybe we need to demand a review and update to some of these structures before these tragedies happen.
Exaclty why u don't get married I never been married been in a long relationship not anymore though and happy I didn't marry had a child with that woman though and took my child to another state
Sad that political contributions are at an all time high. Need election reform & maybe this millions upon millions could be used in a nonpartisan manner: infrastructure upgrades
there's a whole lot of places where developers have come in, walled off, or piped creeks, etc, so they could build more houses. They don't think about a once in a blue moon heavy rain, so they don't design with that in mind.
lake levels could not be lowered drastically, because while that may have saved his property, it would have flooded someone else's down stream. Turns out, didn't matter anyways. 40 trillion gallons of water is a lotta' water.
he built on a flood plain. a damn flood plain. what do you think a flood plain is for? why was there no dray down on the lake before hand? they knew all the rain was coming. seriously it is not like it just showed up out of nowhere.
No, they did not know that the rain was coming. Even after Helene made landfall in FL, the spaghetti charts were all pointing to a path directly over Atlanta, and then curling westward into central TN. Those predictions would have put western NC in a much more peripheral location.
@@AlejandroMS67 how much water could have been released and how much rain fell and collected and how fast that picture i saw with a ocean of water behind that dam was crazy .. 😮
We have an aging infrastructure. Climate change is going to be an increasing threat to infrastructure. Not only do we need to harden or infrastructure we need to address climate change.
How much you make off advertising your concern for Catawba River Residents? I hear you sell 15 second commercials for $250k each, you every use that money to help us? You wouldn't have it without us to be concerned about. Nice capitalizing for generation after generation.
Did anybody Wake up sleepy Joe from his Slumber and let him know what's going on maybe he could send the Red Cross or female or the National Guard to do something I mean this guy you got to get him out of bed people seriously
Everyone is healed now, it worked for Ian, Katrina and Andrew, why not Helene right? On the flip side, maybe someone prayed for rain? The big man upstairs heard their wishes and this is a result
Floods happen regardless. Without dams....you don't get any warning when it comes flash floods....instead you get a freight train of water and debris barreling towards your town. Why do you think levees, and dams became popular in the first place??
Matthew 7:24-27 Build Your House on the Rock 24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
Please worship the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, THE LORD GOD and try not to worry too much about the differences between the different religions and denominations, try to think about the similarities and the things they may have in common more than the differences. Daily prayer is a fundamental part that many people do not practice although it is encouraged. "CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, LORD GOD, I beg you to never force me to worship any false god or object and I ask you for forgiveness for my sins and immorality. Thank you for everything. Amen." Please pray this now, pray the words as you read them if you cannot look and remember them 🙏 and please know that daily prayer will give you the help that GOD wants you to have. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Thessalonians 5:16-18 "Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of GOD in Christ Jesus for you." 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Daily prayer is the key to success in politics and much of life, if only more would practice it 🙏
Mars and Venus have 95% co2 in their atmosphere, earth 0.04%. Venus is hot enough to fry your bacon while mars forms dry ice on its poles from extreme cold. So explain to me how 0.04% co2 is causing climate change. Or is it the atmospheric pressure that drives weather since mars atmosphere is almost non existent while Venus atmosphere is roughly 93 times more dense than earths. 🤔 It’s amazing what you can identify and learn if you only study science and scientific facts instead of believing a bunch of paid actors on tv reading from a script or teleprompter.
People get mad when you lower lake levels and get mad when you don't. You are in a flood plain !! Homes are built where they should NEVER have been built in first place.
"The price of living in paradise."
This happened along the Mississippi during the last major flood. Grafton IL basically moved the entire town up the hill out of the flood plain.
You are being idiotic, he mentions he experienced the same in 2019, many cities have systems in place to avoid flooding, this has happened before and its insane no forethought was given to prepare for the next disaster.
@@Razzy_D9111And if it still floods then what
I don't know where YOU LIVE - but, your assumption is INCORRECT ! MR. Wylie started a hydraulic electrical power generating plant many years ago ..... Duke Power grew since then. The Properties have increased as the Lake did ..... the other two lakes are similar in their development and use Up from us on Wylie ..... the Catawba river is LONG USED FOR NEEDS AS WELL AS RECREATION and Wylie alone is 325 miles of shoreline .... Norman Lake is larger still. The lake was mishandled this time WITH HELENE and the substations problems have been additional problems. NO EARLY LOWERING WHICH IS TO DUKE POWER ADVANTAGE ...... was undertaken .... it caused undue damage. jj
Before watching this video, I was asking myself the same question. Why didn’t they open the dam to allow water to flow out to lower the levels before the storms coming.
Too much water all at once. There was already flooding downstream from the “potential tropical cyclone” a couple weeks ago.
@@irenafarmAhhhhh. Okay 👍🏻
@@irenafarm If that was the case the fact that evacuation notice wasn't the first thought from too much water all at once is astounding.
Ask yourself this question: What is Trump's answer to the crisis of climate change? "Drill, baby, drill". We cannot afford 4 more years of pandering to big oil.
@@nankerphelge3771Just stop your ignorant comment and think, we don’t want EV’s that use more fossil fuels than drill baby drill.
And you won’t realize you are on the wrong side until the socialist soldiers have their boots on your neck.
I pray these families be safe.
Duke Energy is NOT your friendly neighborhood corporation. You are a means to an end to them.
Government CAN fix this, but you have to work together. Hold them ALL accountable.
@DH-uu5ps Mighty commie of you.
Government Fixes = definition of oxymoronic
@@u2mister17mighty dumpsterish of you! Of course only morons believe the repukes when it comes to regulations. There is a perfectly easy mathematical formula for lowering lake levels with weather forcasts of approaching precipitation. More repuke idiocy is not believing climate change!
Upwards of 35 inches of rain reported in some spots of NC mountains. This was an unprecedented amount of rain in a short amount of time. This was a catastrophic weather event. I am heartbroken for everyone impacted by this tragedy.
I agree with him about why the water was not lowered I live in Greene county Tn and the TVA did not draw down the river and the gate to draw down the rain very s still closed and thanks to them we lost most of the bridges over the river and the ones that did not fall in are now closed
God help all these victims of this storm.
I am actually shocked the force of the overflow didn’t break the dam
Pray for those dams
It's been cracked since 1930. Many men are buried in the cement work...
If many remembered the history of the dam it would be even more haunted than it is.
Brilliant editing job on this video 👍
Like he didn’t know it was going to flood? Wait he did and didn’t move a thing.
Also the whole reason for flood insurance isn’t to rebuild, it’s to move somewhere safer.
If you live near a stream, lake, or river at some point IT'S GOING TO FLOOD! It's called, "Common Sense!"
@@greggalloway1276 akshully, when Puke energy builds a dam and mismanages it, this happens
Floating structures maybe😮
My brother bought land next to a stream, but he's got about 25 feet of elevation to where his house sits. Personally, I once rented an apartment on the third floor of a former hotel (more than a century old) that was about 15 feet from the high-tide line on a bay in Massachusetts. We had a 100-year tidal surge, knee deep on the first floor, and the building was condemned, because the electric system was all shorted out. Whole lot of inconvenience. My car, in the parking lot across the street, on higher ground, had a water line about two inches above the door bottoms, and appeared dry inside, but enough water got in to fry the computer modules that were installed on the floor (on the floor!), and the car just died a month later. Still, I have no net regrets about living there. It was a few years of serenity after a brutal series of experiences of women's inhumanity to man.
I live 20 miles from the west central coast of Florida and I had no problems with this hurricane. But I know in any year I could lose my place. I have a camper that I hook up , load up and can leave at a moments notice.
2.5 years of rain in 24 hours. There is no dam that can handle that. That's unheard of. There are 150 yr old trees washing down the river. A warmer atmosphere holds more moisture (basic 10th grade science) right now the earths atmosphere has 6-8% more moisture capacity than 30 yrs ago. All it needs is a trigger. The trigger was named Helene, this time.
Excellent presentation.
Dude actually has a deep voice but those jeans have got him in a pinch
Most def.
I think he visits P.Diddy
😮😂😂😂
Lol
Why is this dude standing in the water
My friends if you live underneath ANY dam in the USA I suggest you move. Pack your car, tent, sleeping bags.
Do not think it cannot or won't happen. Move Inland. Not within 10 to 20 kilometres of oceans or Major rivers..
I'm close to Grand Rivers, KY.... Which is located between 2 major dams.. Would have to go a looong ways. Hope all head these warnings and keep a close eye. God speed
@@justinoliver1984 Well then lifejacket, helmet and the best raft, boat anything that floats.. God be with you 🙏
Or just rebuild better aka floating structures for house garage cars 😮
They wanted their nice full lake all summer. All the creeks were brimming in catawba for months now.
Not that long ago it was the poor that lived by the water and the rich that lived along the higher ground - for this very reason.
nobody will ever live in the perfect place
A week ago the storm was to track 200 mi west, along the Georga Alabama boarder into TN.
Rich, Exactly right. The prediction was very close to the Ga./Al border, nowhere near North Carolina.
Exactly! They missed it. They aren't as smart as they think they are.
City? State? Prayers are being sent.
I don’t know how to explain it but Austin Walker has a voice made for a news reporter
The key word you stated was - on the flood plain. Flood Plains flood. That is what nature intended flood plains to do. So, if you build on the flood plain and the flood plain floods your house again, how can you be mad?
@@KennethGreenCMP was it a flood plain before or after Duke built the dam, if the billionaires can explain why they didn't lower water levels ahead of a known storm I can't wait to hear it
@@KennethGreenCMP A flood plain is a concept from the government, the same government that built the dam they mismanaged and created this scenario
@@KennethGreenCMP This is why engineers get paid big bucks? On the east coast, we can expect hurricanes and giving thought into where excess water is going in the event of excess rain SHOULD be a priority when dealing with dams; especially dams with age on them.
@@tenerifecats6652 The water should go to the flood plain. In this case, these people know they live on a flood plain and raised their homes. The only way to solve the problem would be spend millions in tax dollars to protect their home built in dangerous place. Where I live where companies are suing the government to build on the flood plain. Then these are the same people complaining the government should do something solve the problem.
@@KennethGreenCMP Kind of like that one homeowner in Hawaii that used flame resistant roofing material; and kept the underbrush cut down around his house? That was the only house left standing and looked 'untouched' after the wildfire. But that also takes money, and raising houses takes a ton of cash too. I KNOW that just replacing a tiny 2 ft section of water piping under my house was 'guestimated' to cost almost $1K (with a crawl space that has ample space to get under there). Mainly because there is a lack of tradesmen in certain fields that drive up the costs?
I've actually watched many of those 'house tour' videos; some of them actually in the areas that are getting the terrible flooding now. And I've thought...well that house is sitting next to a stream...etc. How many miles away are the dams that are causing these issues; and how much of a threat was exposed to them when they were buying their homes? Problem is the issue is actually 'manmade' with these dams. Can we agree that the dams were NOT put there as 'flood control' but water retention. But the 'water retention' solution is causing another very impactful issue - severe flooding! And as these structures age, the problem will get worse.
Look at the far upstream end of this. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY expected the volume of water that fell in the mountains. Those who live on the Catawba River should be glad there were other rivers to help channel the floodwaters. Imagine what it would have been like if it were just the Catawba. If you live on a river or lake made from a river, you should know you're going to be flooded at some point and not cry to the watershed management when it happens.
All the guessing by people in charge are no match for nature.
They have the wrong people. Probably DEI hires.
This is what people are talking about when we say that rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure should be the top priority.
😂, the dam wasn't crumbling.
@@Oldschoolrules123 It wasn’t sufficient to do the job.
@@TheRealCaptainFreedom SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP, YOU REALLY NEED IT. 😂
@@Oldschoolrules123 The power should not be going out for hours or days because of rain or high winds due to a hurricane thousands of miles away. And I’m not even saying that we should bury power lines (but we really should). Stupid squirrels getting barbecued are responsible for 20% of power outages. What about doing something to discourage them from running on power lines?
@@Oldschoolrules123 It's been cracked since 1930. Many many men are buried in the cement structure.
The Mountains of the area are furious. Blue Ridge Mountain, Grandmother Gap and Grandfather Mountains.
Hadean is still the name of a layer of Earth.
Don't build in the flood plain and you'll be fine.
I live on the LAKE Wylie in the town of Clover, SC ! It has never been THIS HIGH in water level .... it's over the rip rap onto the lawn of my across the cove neighbor .... my side is over the lawn and brush - though I am on a hill to the House ! I feel for the LAKE PROPERTY OWNERS ..... we have Power outages and way too high lake / river levels ..... Duke power is concerned with efficiently (read profitably generating electrical power .... they need to COOL THE IMMENSE HEAT GENERATED BY NUCLEAR ENERGY PROCESS through heat exchange piping so as to separate the Lake water from the Rods immersed water ..... we have muddy lake from their constant changing lake levels to suit more rapid water movement through the Plant cooling system. Just a sad system that erodes lake shore ....... they are insulated from actual accountability. Pitiful.
FLOOD PLAINS. When you build on them you'll pay the price. Your choice. I feel for these people but zoning should never had allow this. Now it's a flood PAIN.
Duke Energy is selling more flood plain/NC Wildlife. This may help clean it up...
Water in the lake is money in the bank.
Duke will hold onto as much of it as they can for as long as they can.
Check to see if the lake level was within F.E.R.C. specifications at the time the flooding occurred.
I know that it wasn't at lake Murray in October 2015.
Store not your treasures on this earth but in heaven. Praying for these people
lol another religious person "praying" as if thats going to matter
Please send help
Prayer warriors
@@sandraryan2256 go help
And the dumbasses rebuild their house right back in the same spot and just don’t understand why it happened,again.
You can't predict the path of a hurricane accurately enough a week out. I'm sorry this happened, but at least he's rich and can rebuild his lakefront home.
No flood insurance?
@@fzr1000981 Depending on the underwriting, they may not be covered. The first thing my insurance did was study the geography in my area to determine the likelihood of flooding before they chose give full coverage without requiring a flood risk rider. I was fortunate because my home is not in a flood plain; but there is an area nearby that is.
@tenerifecats6652 so you had no damage, or it was covered?
@tenerifecats6652 I wondered what type of insurance could this man have had that he was able to rebuild.
@CFaith-f1p he may have just saved the money, many flood impacts in NC aren't insured
All flood ins. comes through FEMA. They rarely pay enough to rebuild like it was.
What’s up with these dams??? Is it lack of maintenance?
Most likely the govt been done neglect most of the infrastructure in the country
Was not built to handle the increased precipitation
@@emyoji1316how many inches did the hurricane bring i wonder and then the hills deliver a lot of water as the land floods that picture of the dam with a ocean of water behind was impressive 😮
@@tenerifecats6652 it's lazy bums, they could of released water ahead of the known storm
I'm betting Dukes contract w the county tells them where to flood. Which shows the government really doesn't like the middle class and lower. The other are that would have flooded would have been the millionaire homes on Lake Norman.
You need to mention that this guy settled out of court with the power company to get all his money to build his house again. All about that money
You would not be able to “Accommodate” all the water this storm dumped!!!!!! At least hes alive, some folks are dead!
Ok her in Ohio most of Dam are used for Recreation and lowering the water level cost the district money because the water levels too low for boating. Catch 22 going to use the reservoir for its purpose. Flood control
should have picked a better place to live not next to a river how stupid could they be
ok where would YOU live that is perfect and away from mother nature ??????
@@twohandsles1513 that went over your head ...
Build or buy in a flood plane it happens. Not only is it from the rain but all the water that fell in the mountains too. Hate it for these people hut it is the chance you take
Was it a flood plain before or after Duke built and mismanaged their water?
Florida will succumb too
It’s all built on swamp land and Everglades .
@@Catchmyvib2 this is dam and river related, neither of which applies to Florida
@@Snarf_Le_Wombat river is natural damn built to make Lake Norman
@@jimwilson7364 no
Damn technicians knew the impact could have been lessened by opening damns downstream. What took them so long to act on information they had prior to the impact? Duke energy always seems to do too little too late then charge the consumer for their mistake.
*How come you guys can afford illegal w4r5 all over the world* but you cant afford to maintain infrastructure or healthcare...???
It's called rain dude
Your comment is accurate.
@@Snarf_Le_Wombat OH WOW - has it not rained in Am3ric4 since the dam was constructed...???
@@Snarf_Le_Wombat You are giving the authorities and their engineers a ‘get out of jail free’ card. Especially older dams that cause a lot of damage, where is it likely to be capped and overflow needs to be addressed by engineers! Maybe we need to demand a review and update to some of these structures before these tragedies happen.
@@piccalillipit9211 Not this heavy, it hasn't. ...
catfish is swimming upstream
What has the state legislature done to fortify against insufficient infrastructure? I think the guy is a goof.
Duke energy has A LOT to answer for!! Why didnt they lower the levels ahead ao time???!!
Thank God climate change is a myth
because the engineer said not to
Duke's_nukes!
Mosquitoes.. to multiply in south East
Tennessee Valley Athaurity did a way better job than Duke Energy! Too big to care!!
We don’t care, we don’t have to we’re Duke
Life jacket???
Building on the shifting sand....
I lost everything I owned after my divorce
Exaclty why u don't get married I never been married been in a long relationship not anymore though and happy I didn't marry had a child with that woman though and took my child to another state
If you lost everything I suppose you should have kept it in your pants !
He has a south park voice
Sad that political contributions are at an all time high. Need election reform & maybe this millions upon millions could be used in a nonpartisan manner: infrastructure upgrades
It's not safe, stay out of it.
Surprised?????? Its called a FLOOD PLAIN......enough of the drama...
....
shut up
sad man. twice is 2 times to many. i bet the property was beautiful.
And these idiots keep living there lol
Rebuild and build a boat house ... aka a barge base stucture and just not worry about water park your cars on it in a garge .... build back better 😮
@@naytewilson yeah man, living close to water doesn't make sense 😕
Like the cliffs in CA, rebuild and it happens again and again, insanity
@@marysewitsky4823 Thank God climate change is a myth
Lol did u write that yourself Austin?!?! 😊
Old infrastructure.
This could have been avoided, drain ever place possible. Then the rivers and dams could have accommodated the rain.
there's a whole lot of places where developers have come in, walled off, or piped creeks, etc, so they could build more houses. They don't think about a once in a blue moon heavy rain, so they don't design with that in mind.
Wrong
This is why people hate the MSM. Just tell the who, what, where, when, why and how without all the pompous circumstance!
it's pomp and circumstance, not "pompous circumstance"
@@AlejandroMS67that’s what happens to your brain on Fox .
Yeah, and get a real man to do the reporting.
They don't care about you.
😅
Who is they? And why should anyone care about you?
You got that right!
@@Oldschoolrules123 question baiter beware .... :(
Its Putin again?!?
Perhaps it's time to get serious about climate change?
lake levels could not be lowered drastically, because while that may have saved his property, it would have flooded someone else's down stream. Turns out, didn't matter anyways. 40 trillion gallons of water is a lotta' water.
he built on a flood plain. a damn flood plain. what do you think a flood plain is for?
why was there no dray down on the lake before hand? they knew all the rain was coming. seriously it is not like it just showed up out of nowhere.
No, they did not know that the rain was coming. Even after Helene made landfall in FL, the spaghetti charts were all pointing to a path directly over Atlanta, and then curling westward into central TN. Those predictions would have put western NC in a much more peripheral location.
Another clueless one. 😂
@@Oldschoolrules123 we wont fault you for it. just educate yourself better.
@@grizzlygrizzle see they have these things called weather prediction models.
@@christianwolf68 IFYOUONLYHADABRAIN
I am not saying it’s true, but I do believe that after watching all these clips some of this was plan very well.
seems like your tinfoil hat is on a little too tight, you might wanna loosen it up a bit
@@AlejandroMS67 how much water could have been released and how much rain fell and collected and how fast that picture i saw with a ocean of water behind that dam was crazy .. 😮
We have an aging infrastructure. Climate change is going to be an increasing threat to infrastructure. Not only do we need to harden or infrastructure we need to address climate change.
How much you make off advertising your concern for Catawba River Residents?
I hear you sell 15 second commercials for $250k each, you every use that money to help us?
You wouldn't have it without us to be concerned about. Nice capitalizing for generation after generation.
U can too
It's like it's almost planned. I mean hell even newsome calif has them lower the lake levels before heavy rains.
So he was smart and raised the home but not enough for this event.
Either MOVE or build it even HIGHER than now ....
Did anybody Wake up sleepy Joe from his Slumber and let him know what's going on maybe he could send the Red Cross or female or the National Guard to do something I mean this guy you got to get him out of bed people seriously
Please send more help
It's not cathartic if your poor pa pa.
Are you 12 or something?
Prayers for everyone 😢
They don’t help.
@@naytewilson Prayers help if you pray properly.
Everyone is healed now, it worked for Ian, Katrina and Andrew, why not Helene right? On the flip side, maybe someone prayed for rain? The big man upstairs heard their wishes and this is a result
Lives beside a river, complains about flooding. 🤔🤔
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Shouldnt dam rivers..mother dont like that
Floods happen regardless. Without dams....you don't get any warning when it comes flash floods....instead you get a freight train of water and debris barreling towards your town. Why do you think levees, and dams became popular in the first place??
Matthew 7:24-27
Build Your House on the Rock
24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
Please worship the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, THE LORD GOD and try not to worry too much about the differences between the different religions and denominations, try to think about the similarities and the things they may have in common more than the differences. Daily prayer is a fundamental part that many people do not practice although it is encouraged.
"CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, LORD GOD, I beg you to never force me to worship any false god or object and I ask you for forgiveness for my sins and immorality. Thank you for everything. Amen."
Please pray this now, pray the words as you read them if you cannot look and remember them 🙏 and please know that daily prayer will give you the help that GOD wants you to have.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thessalonians 5:16-18
"Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of GOD in Christ Jesus for you."
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Daily prayer is the key to success in politics and much of life, if only more would practice it 🙏
Uh, this is a Wendy's.
Huitzilopochtli is more fun.
You need to seek help. I hope to God you’re a bot.
religion n chikin recipes ,,everyones got their own
Theres an old build back better dude thats a big help. Everyone knows they arent to blame at all.
Because. Weather.
They didnt know?
Climate change? What climate change?
Maybe need a brain
Right, it has never rained or flooded here ever before.
Yeah dude, the climate has changed for millennia. Have you heard of an ice age?
@@jeffreysmith236ye it flooded in 79 i read on google 😮
Mars and Venus have 95% co2 in their atmosphere, earth 0.04%. Venus is hot enough to fry your bacon while mars forms dry ice on its poles from extreme cold. So explain to me how 0.04% co2 is causing climate change. Or is it the atmospheric pressure that drives weather since mars atmosphere is almost non existent while Venus atmosphere is roughly 93 times more dense than earths. 🤔
It’s amazing what you can identify and learn if you only study science and scientific facts instead of believing a bunch of paid actors on tv reading from a script or teleprompter.
Nothing screams I’m NOT gay like v necks and giraffe feet.
He could be metrosexual.
flaming
Asheville is full
Love your water front nightmare ?
Duke is at fault 💯
Question how do you build on sand in a flood zone, and think Mother Nature want come knocking one day.
Who ever you are kid news person..Stop with your drama..Its pathetic...