The building that splits in half on the power pole (2:45) is pictured at (0:59) in the center of the screen. It is the Mountain Marble & Granite building. Just east of the River Mill Lofts & Skyloft Apartments on Thompson St..
@@Doorknobz You are wrong and Seashack f1 is correct. Google maps and street view don't lie. www.google.com/maps/place/Mountain+Marble+%26+Granite/@35.5715219,-82.5333959,92m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x8859f30d1e60bac1:0xaac63df94007da69!2sHolston+Gases+Inc!8m2!3d35.5731288!4d-82.5272472!16s%2Fg%2F12hrr_gcs!3m5!1s0x8859f313bccfcd2f:0x2b8ce3de7c37f071!8m2!3d35.571556!4d-82.5332474!16s%2Fg%2F1tfr147v?authuser=0&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAyMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Those cargo containers are about as strong as a pepsi can, they have to be stacked on the corners or else they crumple. Really this should be evidence to anyone considering using them to not do that.
@@jimalford6359 They're tall electrical poles made of metal. If you look closely, you can see a street light attached to the pole near the water level. Normally, about two-thirds of the pole's height is above that.
You got absolutely incredible drone footage of this terrible disaster. You're really helping people see and understand how terrible the damage was. So sorry for you and everyone in Asheville, and everything you've all lost.
My Heart Goes Out to all these people in North Carolina Praying this never happened again in Our Lord Jesus Christ name Dear Lord Heal our Land in King 👑 JESUS CHRIST NAME AMEN Praying for North Carolina Daily PASLM 92
I am so glad the apartment complex didn't break loose and float down the river. Considering the situation I would say you were very lucky / blessed it didn't
You are blessed when you’re reproached for the name of Christ not when your apartment doesn’t break loosen flow down the hill. Those are called trials that are worth more than gold!
Thank you for uploading, that's my work Isuzu box truck @1:56 We still have not found it but it was good to see what happened to it up until this point. Glad y'all are safe. If you have anymore videos please upload I would really appreciate that. We had several vehicles pass your apartments.
Just incredible. My wife fled here from Florida for Irma she said they were the nicest kindest folks she ever met. I'm heart broken here for these people.
This is truly rare and amazing to see the timeline and drone and the position from the balcony. Terrible and sad event. I can’t even imagine what this was like. And so many lives lost or changed. Ughhh. Thank you for sharing this video.
Those scenes from the balcony of the apartment show so clearly how quickly the flood waters rose during hurricane Helene. I am very sorry for everyone who has experienced this catastrophe in Western North Carolina and also Tennessee and other states.
@@jiggidyjam Bro I used to live in Asheville and it was my home before I moved and I missed it alot up there but I think about that place all the time and it hurts me to see these images of my favorite place in the world get swept away, if you can dm me maybe we can get in touch, god speed and god bless
This is devastating, soo sorry for the lives lost and everyone that lost everything. Glad y’all are safe. Praying everything gets rebuilt and that you receive any assistance that’s available. ❤🙏🏾
I've been working on Thompson St next to your apartment complex (same building like the Bike Thrift store). Had to watch the video twice to recognize the area, unbelievable how wide the Swannanoa got right there, I had no idea. Thanks for sharing - seeing the complete structure being gone at the end really hit home.
Sure hurricanes are bad on the coast but they can handle the water pretty good. People just don’t realize how catastrophic this event was for East Tennessee/Western North Carolina area. When a flood washes away river bridges that are in some cases 80-100 feet over the water then this is off the charts in terms of severity. We got 6-8 inches of rain Before the hurricane even made landfall. A 2 inch rain here on its own is a lot of water for the mountains never mind the upwards of 16-30 inches some got . I live here and everyone is still trying to comprehend what happened. This is devastating…
It is really hard to comprehend what you folks are dealing with there, even with seeing all the terrible videos and news coverage. You're right about coastal storms - I've been through more than I can count in Wilmington and Charleston and never was it this bad. Even Floyd in 99 with 20+ inches of rain in Wilmington did nothing compared to this. Just awful!
"We got 6-8 inches of rain Before the hurricane even made landfall. A 2 inch rain here on its own is a lot of water for the mountains never mind the upwards of 16-30 inches some got." I can't think of any human actions that can be employed to prevent the disastrous run-off from such an extraordinary amount of rain. So very sorry you all are dealing with this.
The purposefully did not drain any of the damns leading into the rainy seasons as normal. And have not done required maintenance & upkeep for decades. Then they release all backedup damns at same time during heaviest part of storm instead of letting the old damns possibly fail on their own. All the build up of decades of old timber & brush built up that they neglected to flush was a straight liquid buzzsaw through all these communities .
I had no idea that there was that much rain BEFORE Helene hit. I knew y'all up there were wet, but I didn't realize it was flooding even before the main storm arrived.
That empty big container was just squeeze like a light weight beer can. Now that really really crazy of power of water movement you know how hard that it to dang them up? Holy cow 😮
This video is a fine example of documenting a traumatic disaster. I noticed the weather was overcast for days, so Solar power is no good. Thank you for sharing and may God bless.
All this is insanely crazy and sad but one of the craziest things is that at 3:08 you can see the people in the right bottom part of the frame recording from their balcony. I just watched their video of the house and cargo container getting demolished by that pole on YT a few days ago!
omg i used to drive past these apartments every day to go to work before the hurricane. i would always laugh at the hippo statue in the little dog park there. i've been thinking of everyone in those apartments and i hope you are all well. i actually saw a tiktok someone recorded of the hippo floating past their house! i hope yall got him back :( much love from a neighbor 15 minutes down the road from yall
Just a note, People that lived in the clearing of a mountain side was living right in the path of the flow coming down the mountain side . Water goes were there is the least resistance . Many communities lived on each side of those large clearings so you can imagine the loss of life .
I lived there too. Water only got in the 1st floor but FEMA is supposed to be condemning the building. As of right now they have to take the 1st and 2nd floors down to the studs due to mold.
@@lalalaureng9722 Moisture will rise to the top, I have heard of that before with home floods. If the basement floods and the homeowner thinks it is under control, years down the road they eventually find their roof sheathing to be entirely rotted.
@@lalalaureng9722 oh wow, condemned?! i loved all the beautiful murals painted on those apartments and all the fun statues. sad to see it go like this.
Thank you for posting. We just got internet a few days ago & I haven’t seen much footage. I’m not far from there, but far enough as it turns out & really haven’t driven out much.
If you ever wonder why they say it's not the winds you should be worried most about, look no further than 2:27 similarly, If you are in the path of a hurricane's storm surge, leave.
Moral of the story seeing that shipping container wrap around that pole and the building splitting in half on the pole is that water does not give a fuck! and neither does mother nature!
I just have to wonder how much wildlife was killed because of hurricane and because the mess left behind, chemicals etc. All the homes destroyed or ruined. Prayers to all involved 🙏
1:50 seeing whatever that chemical was, makes you see why they were saying first responders, water rescue were coming away with burns on the hands from the water.
In this case my guess would be liquid propane, volatilizing and venting from a breach or relief valve on the tank. As it expands it rapidly cools, which may be causing the (condensation) cloud. If so, more of a fire hazard than a health hazard (from the propane vapor, if it hit something and sparked - depends on whether the tank is steel, vs aluminum or composite). I remember, during the Japan tsunami, there was aerial footage of burning debris floating on the advancing, near-black water, making it look almost like a lava flow.
I'm not sure which is more impressive. That the water could wrap a cargo container around the pole and then split a building in two on it, or that the pole just absolutely tanked the whole mess.
thats a real flood video. Better than all these people driving around and making an hour long video while they look for gas or a way out of town. Prayers from Carteret County.
i give my heart and prayers out to all, you beautiful, people, i have great tears, running down my checks right now, I'M VERY SORRY FOR ALL, YOUR LOSES
People have no idea of the power of water flowing. Those shipping containers are almost indestructible. They are built to handle a lot of weight and forces. That flooding folded it in half on that power pole like it was nothing.
Great footage, showing the progression of the flood. But I have a question ... why are there apartment buildings way out in the countryside? How would there ever be enough people who want to live in a place of natural beauty, who are prepared to live in an apartment? Surely people live in such places to get AWAY from that kind of 'city living'? All that open space is the point of the living there, is it not? So that you can live in a house, with space and privacy etc. It seems incredibly strange to see apartment buildings in the middle of a virtual wilderness!
this is not the countryside whatsoever. asheville is a rapidly growing city and this is a 5 minute drive from the heart of it. there are just trees in this area lining the french broad. 100 feet down the road is biltmore village, the wealthiest part of asheville with numerous high end retail stores and restaurants. well. it used to be there until helene. my favorite restaurant in all of asheville was located there and was flooded and they had to gut the entire thing.
Were you the guys up on the roof? We could see somebody up there when we went to The District parking lot. I worked out of a shop next to the red apartments on stilts up the river from you guys. Most of the old buildings up there are toast.
I can’t seem to get my bearings. Are you in S Asheville, Hendersonville Rd/25? The water rose to your 3/4 story appt? Unbelievable! Thankful you are safe, and for sharing this!
The video that shows the Tabasco barn at the .56 mark. What time and day was that?? I own the building next to the hajcoa, which was leveled. Just looking for a time frame.
@@NathjohnsonDG ok thank you. My building was the tan one in front of the sub station beside hajcoa. It was still standing at that point in your video. Thank you for the great video and glad you’re safe. It made it through 04, but not as much stuff floating then as this time.
That is Swannanoa River Rd. Asheville. When you see the bright green building, that's the regeneration station across from Brother Wolf. When its on the right of the screen its going toward Lowes. When its in the lower left corner it is going into Biltmore Ave where Wendy's is.
The amount of destruction and devastation is incredible, I feel so bad for those folks!!!! Unfortunately, a LOT of the crap that was floating in those floodwaters ended up in Lake Lure. It will take years for that Lake to get back to normal.
I have never seen such destruction in my life, I have shed so many tears for all the missing ,dead, for all the people who lost everything, My heart is broken 💔 for you all,🙏🏼🙏🏼for everyone,God Bless & stay safe. 😢❤❤❤
Before Helene, Katrina was the biggest natural disaster I had witnessed in my lifetime. Helene and her fury made Katrina look like a sub-tropical storm.
The building that splits in half on the power pole (2:45) is pictured at (0:59) in the center of the screen. It is the Mountain Marble & Granite building. Just east of the River Mill Lofts & Skyloft Apartments on Thompson St..
@@Doorknobzit’s definitely the same building. You can see the two skylights, it’s green and H shaped.
@@Doorknobzthat building has been the showroom for Mountain Marble for over 15 years. Google maps proves it, see for yourself.
@@Doorknobz that’s a different building. This one has been the Mountain Marble showroom since at least 2008.
@@Doorknobz You are wrong and Seashack f1 is correct. Google maps and street view don't lie. www.google.com/maps/place/Mountain+Marble+%26+Granite/@35.5715219,-82.5333959,92m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x8859f30d1e60bac1:0xaac63df94007da69!2sHolston+Gases+Inc!8m2!3d35.5731288!4d-82.5272472!16s%2Fg%2F12hrr_gcs!3m5!1s0x8859f313bccfcd2f:0x2b8ce3de7c37f071!8m2!3d35.571556!4d-82.5332474!16s%2Fg%2F1tfr147v?authuser=0&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAyMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
I give serious props to whomever ever put in that electrical pole. Took a cargo container and a building impact and kept standing.
I was thinking the same thing those telephone poles don’t seem to move
Those cargo containers are about as strong as a pepsi can, they have to be stacked on the corners or else they crumple. Really this should be evidence to anyone considering using them to not do that.
@@jimalford6359 They're tall electrical poles made of metal. If you look closely, you can see a street light attached to the pole near the water level. Normally, about two-thirds of the pole's height is above that.
Steel pole far tougher than old type but YEAH it was installed right too. Didn't expect it to take THAT.
That's what she said
You got absolutely incredible drone footage of this terrible disaster. You're really helping people see and understand how terrible the damage was. So sorry for you and everyone in Asheville, and everything you've all lost.
very nicely captured
So was it terrible???
Yes, Because The Fake Media Won't Show What Actually Happened, Really Sad...Sending Prayers For Everyone Affected 🙏🙏🙏
My Heart Goes Out to all these people in North Carolina Praying this never happened again in Our Lord Jesus Christ name Dear Lord Heal our Land in King 👑 JESUS CHRIST NAME AMEN Praying for North Carolina Daily PASLM 92
I am so glad the apartment complex didn't break loose and float down the river. Considering the situation I would say you were very lucky / blessed it didn't
You are blessed when you’re reproached for the name of Christ not when your apartment doesn’t break loosen flow down the hill. Those are called trials that are worth more than gold!
@@artifacthunter1472 I agree, but...I've been homeless, too. An apartment is a blessing.
Thank you for uploading, that's my work Isuzu box truck @1:56 We still have not found it but it was good to see what happened to it up until this point. Glad y'all are safe. If you have anymore videos please upload I would really appreciate that. We had several vehicles pass your apartments.
that is truly amazing.
Awful to see I am sure. I hope your business was well insured.
Whoever installed those power poles knew what they were doing. Dug in for keeps.
Just incredible. My wife fled here from Florida for Irma she said they were the nicest kindest folks she ever met. I'm heart broken here for these people.
Thats one hell of a power pole to not bend or break when that container hit it
Oh haha I know attached
This is truly rare and amazing to see the timeline and drone and the position from the balcony. Terrible and sad event. I can’t even imagine what this was like. And so many lives lost or changed. Ughhh. Thank you for sharing this video.
2:48 That building hitting the power pole was like a bandsaw cutting through a piece of cardboard. The power of water is unbelievable.😨😢
yea no joke, like wow
Thanks for the video. I work for the local power company and live in Burnsville. This event was horrific. RIP to the lives lost.
Those scenes from the balcony of the apartment show so clearly how quickly the flood waters rose during hurricane Helene. I am very sorry for everyone who has experienced this catastrophe in Western North Carolina and also Tennessee and other states.
Helene was BRUTAL here in North Dakota!
Truly horrific footage. Thanks for posting. Our hearts go out to you.
I live in Black Mountain and have lived in Asheville most of my adult life. We will never be the same😢
You still got a home?
@@Masterman5010 Yes thankfully but all the houses one street over are gone or totaled
@@jiggidyjam Bro I used to live in Asheville and it was my home before I moved and I missed it alot up there but I think about that place all the time and it hurts me to see these images of my favorite place in the world get swept away, if you can dm me maybe we can get in touch, god speed and god bless
I'm still praying for you all down there. Absolutely brutal. Much love to you and yours from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦 ❤️🇺🇸
This is devastating, soo sorry for the lives lost and everyone that lost everything. Glad y’all are safe. Praying everything gets rebuilt and that you receive any assistance that’s available. ❤🙏🏾
I've been working on Thompson St next to your apartment complex (same building like the Bike Thrift store). Had to watch the video twice to recognize the area, unbelievable how wide the Swannanoa got right there, I had no idea. Thanks for sharing - seeing the complete structure being gone at the end really hit home.
I lived in that apartment complex as well. You had front row seats to the damage. It’s a ghost town in that place now.
Build structures in a river bed ? Or am I off the geographic terrain?
Thank you for sharing your video. We ALL need to remember...
Incredible footage. Thank you for sharing.
2:45 Dude drinking a beer while his entire neighborhood floats by. PRICLESS💯%
I vacationed in beautiful Asheville one month before these devastating floods. I wish all the good people there the best as they rebuild and recover.
So sorry for all the residents of Ashville and the surrounding community's. Thank you for the video, gives a real view of what took place.
Wow! To see that shipping container fold in half against the power pole is insane!!!
1:45 was that a propane leaking gas?
Yes. It was a tank probably from Holston Gasses, just right up the road. 99 Thompson St #2331, Asheville, NC 28803
Sure hurricanes are bad on the coast but they can handle the water pretty good. People just don’t realize how catastrophic this event was for East Tennessee/Western North Carolina area. When a flood washes away river bridges that are in some cases 80-100 feet over the water then this is off the charts in terms of severity. We got 6-8 inches of rain Before the hurricane even made landfall. A 2 inch rain here on its own is a lot of water for the mountains never mind the upwards of 16-30 inches some got . I live here and everyone is still trying to comprehend what happened. This is devastating…
It is really hard to comprehend what you folks are dealing with there, even with seeing all the terrible videos and news coverage. You're right about coastal storms - I've been through more than I can count in Wilmington and Charleston and never was it this bad. Even Floyd in 99 with 20+ inches of rain in Wilmington did nothing compared to this. Just awful!
"We got 6-8 inches of rain Before the hurricane even made landfall. A 2 inch rain here on its own is a lot of water for the mountains never mind the upwards of 16-30 inches some got." I can't think of any human actions that can be employed to prevent the disastrous run-off from such an extraordinary amount of rain. So very sorry you all are dealing with this.
The purposefully did not drain any of the damns leading into the rainy seasons as normal. And have not done required maintenance & upkeep for decades. Then they release all backedup damns at same time during heaviest part of storm instead of letting the old damns possibly fail on their own.
All the build up of decades of old timber & brush built up that they neglected to flush was a straight liquid buzzsaw through all these communities .
When you open the dam on purpose to get the land. Its a bitch.
absolutly man made devastation. like fires in California.
Amazing video. I hope you're still doing well and are safe in your apartment.
I'm sure they can't live there as the bottom was flooded.
I had no idea that there was that much rain BEFORE Helene hit. I knew y'all up there were wet, but I didn't realize it was flooding even before the main storm arrived.
That empty big container was just squeeze like a light weight beer can. Now that really really crazy of power of water movement you know how hard that it to dang them up? Holy cow 😮
DANG!!!
This video is a fine example of documenting a traumatic disaster. I noticed the weather was overcast for days, so Solar power is no good. Thank you for sharing and may God bless.
Drinkin' beer and watching the flood....
Thanks for posting. We have a condo in Mica Village just down the street and it can be seen multiple times in your video. Sad to see. Thanks again.
All this is insanely crazy and sad but one of the craziest things is that at 3:08 you can see the people in the right bottom part of the frame recording from their balcony. I just watched their video of the house and cargo container getting demolished by that pole on YT a few days ago!
Wow. Incredible scenes, both the force of nature, and the devastation left behind. 🙏for all affected.
Thank you for sharing. I had thought about moving there around 2018-2019. Yikes.
Wow.... I've never seen anything like that i can't imagine going thru something like that must have been terrifying
Crazy! I have been praying for you all!!
What a way to enjoy the view of the flood with a glass of beer 🍺 and your gal.
omg i used to drive past these apartments every day to go to work before the hurricane. i would always laugh at the hippo statue in the little dog park there. i've been thinking of everyone in those apartments and i hope you are all well. i actually saw a tiktok someone recorded of the hippo floating past their house! i hope yall got him back :( much love from a neighbor 15 minutes down the road from yall
Feels wrong pushing the thumbs up button but if it helps spreading this video then guess its a good thing.
Just a note, People that lived in the clearing of a mountain side was living right in the path of the flow coming down the mountain side . Water goes were there is the least resistance . Many communities lived on each side of those large clearings so you can imagine the loss of life .
Wow. Unreal. Man we got hit hard. Praying for the families of lost souls.
How many floors of your building were flooded and inhabitable?
I lived there too. Water only got in the 1st floor but FEMA is supposed to be condemning the building. As of right now they have to take the 1st and 2nd floors down to the studs due to mold.
@@lalalaureng9722 Moisture will rise to the top, I have heard of that before with home floods. If the basement floods and the homeowner thinks it is under control, years down the road they eventually find their roof sheathing to be entirely rotted.
@@lalalaureng9722 oh wow, condemned?! i loved all the beautiful murals painted on those apartments and all the fun statues. sad to see it go like this.
The power pole vs shipping container was 🙀
Thank you for posting. We just got internet a few days ago & I haven’t seen much footage. I’m not far from there, but far enough as it turns out & really haven’t driven out much.
Great video that shows the strength of H2O
May I ask how much supplies you had? Three days was the pre-Katrina standard.
I wonder what those seven red buildings on stilts are. They look like they are in a commercial district and seem to have weathered the storm well.
If you ever wonder why they say it's not the winds you should be worried most about, look no further than 2:27 similarly, If you are in the path of a hurricane's storm surge, leave.
Moral of the story seeing that shipping container wrap around that pole and the building splitting in half on the pole is that water does not give a fuck! and neither does mother nature!
Amen bent it like a rubber band just crazy ✌️
Thats just mindboggling, wow.
Those are some seriously strong power polls!
I just have to wonder how much wildlife was killed because of hurricane and because the mess left behind, chemicals etc. All the homes destroyed or ruined. Prayers to all involved 🙏
I was thinking about that too. Someone on youtube filmed 2 horses walk down the road looking for water
The shipping containers did a lot of damage. Caused bridges to be taken out that otherwise would have remained.
Building 200 apt 423. What a wild ride we went through
How did that po-dunk little stream turn into that. Incredible. Nobody could have predicted this.
Rain…plus GRAVITY.
Earth is tired of our shit
Wow! That is a natural flood plain.
epic. the power of moving water is easy to undermine
I like the beverage on the balcony. It’s like a front row seat.
2:30
Mother Nature crushed that Cargo Container like a beer can.
1:50 seeing whatever that chemical was, makes you see why they were saying first responders, water rescue were coming away with burns on the hands from the water.
In this case my guess would be liquid propane, volatilizing and venting from a breach or relief valve on the tank. As it expands it rapidly cools, which may be causing the (condensation) cloud. If so, more of a fire hazard than a health hazard (from the propane vapor, if it hit something and sparked - depends on whether the tank is steel, vs aluminum or composite). I remember, during the Japan tsunami, there was aerial footage of burning debris floating on the advancing, near-black water, making it look almost like a lava flow.
That's a beautiful area. I hope everything is better now.
Wow I saw one of the neighbors viral footage of the roof being split in half as well.
I'm not sure which is more impressive. That the water could wrap a cargo container around the pole and then split a building in two on it, or that the pole just absolutely tanked the whole mess.
I have been to that area and never imagined such a thing would happen there.
thats a real flood video. Better than all these people driving around and making an hour long video while they look for gas or a way out of town. Prayers from Carteret County.
Incredible footage, stay safe 🙏
i give my heart and prayers out to all, you beautiful, people, i have great tears, running down my checks right now, I'M VERY SORRY FOR ALL, YOUR LOSES
Great footage guys
Wow, thanks for sharing. I suppose you and your wife are of the blessed ones,..aside from maybe a lost vehicle?
Amazing footage. We feel for everyone effected by this. Is the drone footage around the 7 minute mark downtown Ashville?
I did not expect that container to fold like that.
It is going to take years to clean up all of this, in some places people wont be able to rebuild because the land is gone as well.
I guess the water was 40 to 50 feet deep at its highest? Good thing the apartment building held together.
People have no idea of the power of water flowing. Those shipping containers are almost indestructible. They are built to handle a lot of weight and forces. That flooding folded it in half on that power pole like it was nothing.
Great footage, showing the progression of the flood.
But I have a question ... why are there apartment buildings way out in the countryside? How would there ever be enough people who want to live in a place of natural beauty, who are prepared to live in an apartment? Surely people live in such places to get AWAY from that kind of 'city living'?
All that open space is the point of the living there, is it not? So that you can live in a house, with space and privacy etc. It seems incredibly strange to see apartment buildings in the middle of a virtual wilderness!
This area is like 2 miles from downtown Asheville.
this is not the countryside whatsoever. asheville is a rapidly growing city and this is a 5 minute drive from the heart of it. there are just trees in this area lining the french broad. 100 feet down the road is biltmore village, the wealthiest part of asheville with numerous high end retail stores and restaurants. well. it used to be there until helene. my favorite restaurant in all of asheville was located there and was flooded and they had to gut the entire thing.
Were you the guys up on the roof? We could see somebody up there when we went to The District parking lot. I worked out of a shop next to the red apartments on stilts up the river from you guys. Most of the old buildings up there are toast.
Yes we were. Lots of us were hanging out up there.
Well done, thank you! ✨
great footage
I hope the beer was cold (3:05). :) Seriously, my old stomping grounds, it's devastating.
I can’t seem to get my bearings. Are you in S Asheville, Hendersonville Rd/25? The water rose to your 3/4 story appt? Unbelievable! Thankful you are safe, and for sharing this!
They are in the apt complex at 100 River Mill Drive
Thanks!!
Nice job, however why did you guys stay in the building, Ian just curious
How deep do you think that water was below your balcy
30’?
Amazing footage.
The video that shows the Tabasco barn at the .56 mark. What time and day was that?? I own the building next to the hajcoa, which was leveled. Just looking for a time frame.
I believe that was early afternoon on Friday. Pretty close to the peak. There was a lull in the rain and I was able to get the drone out.
@@NathjohnsonDG ok thank you. My building was the tan one in front of the sub station beside hajcoa. It was still standing at that point in your video. Thank you for the great video and glad you’re safe. It made it through 04, but not as much stuff floating then as this time.
Do you mean hajoca the plumbing store?
I wish I could trust modern day construction like these guys. They got a good contractor out there.
Are there any steps being talked about that could avoid this type of severe flooding in this area in the future?
Yeah its called ban geo-engineering
Where exactly were you filming from? Road name, direction facing?
That is Swannanoa River Rd. Asheville. When you see the bright green building, that's the regeneration station across from Brother Wolf. When its on the right of the screen its going toward Lowes. When its in the lower left corner it is going into Biltmore Ave where Wendy's is.
@@aceoffice776 thank you, couldn’t even recognize an area i’ve driven through 1000 times, that clears it up👍
The amount of destruction and devastation is incredible, I feel so bad for those folks!!!! Unfortunately, a LOT of the crap that was floating in those floodwaters ended up in Lake Lure. It will take years for that Lake to get back to normal.
I have never seen such destruction in my life, I have shed so many tears for all the missing ,dead, for all the people who lost everything, My heart is broken 💔 for you all,🙏🏼🙏🏼for everyone,God Bless & stay safe. 😢❤❤❤
Before Helene, Katrina was the biggest natural disaster I had witnessed in my lifetime. Helene and her fury made Katrina look like a sub-tropical storm.
From Boone used to live in Asheville this looks almost as bad as Harvey was for Houston were I am now
Lived in asheville all my life Iv never seen it this bad. Got bad around my house.
Praying 🙏 for all ya 🇺🇸🇺🇸💙💜❤️
Water is such an interesting element. You literally need it to survive, but too much of it can destroy an entire city....
You love the river because it’s alive. Then it shows you.
Im trying to find out if anyone knows a Rhonda Cole and if she's still alive ?
Praying for good news
Last known location?
@@spooderman3535 Old fort NC
Good luck man
The footage from Wednesday shows how much rain had already hit before the storm.
01:10... At least the swimming pool didn't get flooded... seriously though, that was kind of freaky looking.
Everything got flooded that was in it's path, nothing was spared