BRIT Reacts to the DEVESTATING Hurricane Helene..
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- Reacting to the most recent Hurricane that battered Florida in 2024, Hurricane Helene.
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Hey Adam. tree power lines everywhere when we went the rd tree on my aunt house water all the way up I know. Some dames broken one just over flooding it took us 1 hour to get to my aunt when normal it take 15 mins
Unfortunately at the moment it’s 100 dead, 600 missing
Not to be the bearer of bad news, but the NHC is already tracking 5 systems since Helene. Tropical Storm Kirk is set to become a hurricane, then graduate to a major hurricane, over the next day, and it's pointed right at the bottom of the east coast as well. Even if it hooks north or south and grazes them, there's nowhere for the water to go. Anymore water for the southeast this season is disastrous....and it's September. It's going to get a lot worse this year before it gets better, the hurricane season is going to rage, and then give way to winter precipitation on a decimated population. This is going to be a very tragic winter. 😢
Hi Adam. Just wanted to say that we are doing fine in Tallahassee. Only 20,000 people lost power (we did not) and our house, which was built in 1962, was not damaged at all except for some tree damage and branches hitting the house and the roof, while also getting tangled in the powerlines.
My manager said that his friend in Asheville NC is doing OK, but you can only get in from the south side of town. Another former server of ours is ok in Asheville as well.
Historic Builtmore Estate is under water in North Carolina. Possibly the largest mansion in the US built in 1851 I do believe.
My neighbor’s brothers house has 4 feet of water inside im Clearwater FL, and her friend from on street over from us, their friends in Medira Beach FL, lost everything.
Im from SC and was at my college dorm when it hit going around town was devastating
This was literally a worst case scenario.
The Appalachian Mountains are steeper than most people think with tons of valleys so these mountains basically became waterfalls & flooded the valleys.
The infrastructure in the rural areas are horrible & there are tons of small towns everywhere so literally whole towns got washed away.
Plus most of these towns have 1 or 2 ways in / out so when these bridges got destroyed, it isolated them making rescue efforts even worse.
And all the sheer dropoffs. Little streams become raging rapids that can rip up everything and then drop them 500 feet straight down. I remember visiting family down there during a thunderstorm and being told to get back in the yard because of this. I just can't imagine the danger with that much rain and wind.
The small towns part especially. I worry people aren't going to pay as much attention to them since the news doesn't tend to deem them a good headline.
Yep. My father is stuck up on Sugarloaf Mountain right now. Power up there went out on Wednesday so for those who have generators they are starting to run out of fuel. Thankfully he has plenty of water and food but the fuel for the generator will not last till the power is restored. A neighbor has satellite so he can send a text when he goes over using his atv. From what he was told it will be 2 weeks before power will be restored up there.
@@Paradox_Incognitothat's ridiculous you know what we may go at each other's throat over politics but these are American citizens that need help, whether you're a trumpster or a Harris supporter it's going to take all of us.
@@jennez51🤐
The citizens of the US will come together and do everything they can. Electrical companies from all over the states have already started sending their crisis response teams to the affected areas. Regardless of politics, religion, etc... we look after our own. Whole towns are gone. People have been cut off from any kind of help. Please pray.
We argue and point fingers at each other a lot in the US, but we also step up help each other when we really need it. Even some of the major corporations we all hate step in and offer aid when we have bad natural disasters.
Definitely. We butt heads more than anyone (I'm guilty of this too) but we're all human at the end of the day and if someone's cold, hungry, or lost you bet your ass we step up
America is like a bunch of siblings, we argue at each other and get mad at each other, but even in the middle of that argument if an outsider (in this case Mother Nature) picks on one of us we forget whatever we were arguing about and we step in and stand up for our own. Just like me and my siblings used to do. RIP to my brother and sisters, I miss y’all. 💗
Canada's also sending electrical workers too. We like to send help when we can.
@@CSIteflaOur power grids are intermingled.
Please do a part 2. This was good but focused only on Florida and not to diminish their hardship but North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina are virtually geographically changed due to the immense flooding on top of the wind damage.
Thank you. I’m in Tennessee. It looks like a nuke has dropped here. My family has no water, power, food, water, WiFi, phone….. nothing. People are stranded up in these hollows with no medicine either. I am fortunate enough to live on a hill a few miles out and I’m fine. But my family! My little community is destroyed. Much worse than Florida because they are more equipped for this kind of thing. Us mountain folk don’t experience these things. We lost a lot of people in this area.
Yes, a part 2 would be good. I think this video was made earlier before a lot of the damage in Appalachia was fully known.
Yep. I'm in SC and I'm one of the lucky ones that just got my power back on. I still have 3 historic oak trees laying in my yard. I also lost a lot of timber pines but they aren't near the house. Like I mentioned, I'm one of the lucky ones, one home near me has 5 massive trees on the house.
@dogsoldiertoo1099 I don't have power and my gapa is on oxygen 24/7 tree on power line I can't go to work
@@dogsoldiertoo1099 it was worse then hugo
As for how do you recover. The rest of the country will collect food and supplies at drop off points. Trucking companies will haul it down for free. Construction companies, light company linemen, and all kinds of other folks will caravan down to help with the clean up and rebuilding. We may fight amongst our selves like siblings but when attacked even by Mother Nature we come together.
America is beautiful no matter what anyone says. ❤
Biden hasn't shown up or even knows what's happening! President Trump is using his money to help the people!!
Well, sort of. I agree that severe, newsworthy disasters bring out the best in us, but there are countless poor folks or retirees like me, spread out in rural areas, in poor counties that have difficulty getting help. ❤
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Blue collar/ rednecks are already there, with more coming. Mountain folk are tough sobs. I know I own a bar in the foothills of NC. We need the 82nd Airbourne Rapid deployment group, from NC. This is not easy terrain. They can handle it. God Bless.
I'm in east Tennessee, we 'don't get hurricanes' here in the mountains so we were totally unprepared to deal with this, there is so much devastation in NC and TN from Helene stalling and just sitting on top of us dumping tons of rain. Prayers for all the missing and deceased.
Well put! Here in Florida most people that died weren’t in the hardest hit. 8 people died mostly by drowning in a county that received Tropical Storm winds and relatively low surge.
But there it’s so hard to prepare. Here we saw up to 20 foot storm surge (NOAA reported over 9 feet just a few miles to the west of me) and it lasts about 16 hours, half the time dropping. But I’ve seen about a hundred rivers still at that kinda flood stage or more 3 days later around there. It just hurts deep down knowing people are stuck in that for days and days.
Are you OK?
i am in Elizabethton Tennessee and it is horrible here as well. Yes NC got the worst but very bad here
@@Tornadowarning-r8b I am
Praying for you. I have been in this type of devastation before. Band together as a community and find strength in each other.
I live in WNC and today I passed a convoy from Philadelphia Fire Dept. Rolled down the windows and waved in thanks for helping. They blew their horns when we passed. Thanks to all from everywhere for the help
Linemen from Canada have been convoying down.
GOOD LUCK and STAY SAFE, HON!!!
Teams from Utah are on their way as well.
Raleigh NC here, hope ur doing ok up there. You guys got the flooding, we got the ‘tropical tornados” 🌪️
Americans came together in disasters, no one cares your political affiliation. We love one another. Period.
TN here.
3 catastrophic dam failures.
Most people either had 10 min to evacuate or no notice at all. Everyone was shelter in home at that time. By the time they got the evacuation orders, the escape routes were flooded.
It is chaos. Sheer chaos.
You asked about clean up? EVERYONE is heading there. TN Bureau of Investigation is handling the missing. Its all hands on deck. Volunteers, everyone.
Stay safe out there. ❤
If I didn't have to stay here with my dad I'd be down there. Ya'll helped us in NJ when Sandy hit I just want to repay the kindness. Be safe, and I hope the cleanup goes fast.
3 dams were over topped, which is considered a failure. They did not collapse, just to clarify.
I saw a picture last night that made me well up in tears, it was a line of Canadian power trucks headed down I-81 to help us.
That's not true. Sorry, but we all knew about the storm coming, and even the latest spaghetti threads of what path(s) it could take. Most people don't have the money to evacuate; simply put but they do need to have a savings account set aside for that reason if they live in storm areas.
It's crazy that the worst of the storm was the flooding in N.C. and Tennessee.
Yep. NC here, luckily I’m in Raleigh but the mountains got it real bad. Red Cross is still trying to help ppl locate their loved ones 😭
And Virginia. Please don't forget us like everyone else.
Its one of the major risks of a hurricane if the storm stalls over an area. Lake Okeechobee is rated 2nd highest risk after New Orleans by the Army Corps of Engineers. If a Cat 4 stalled over that reservoir the entire state of Florida south of the lake could be 8 feet under water.
Insurance does cover hurricane damage, but they are VERY unwilling to give payouts, have high deductibles, AND are ridiculously expensive. This year I had a chance to live in FL and wasn't able to because of how pricey the insurance is there. I still live on the coast in a different state & have 3 types insurance (wind/storm, flood, & regular house insurance). Wind/storm is for hurricanes, flood is for river/coastal/plumbing flooding (which wind/storm does NOT cover), and regular is for fires and break-ins. I don't live in a flood zone, but I bet a bunch of the people with their houses swept away by flooding don't either. It just takes one unusual storm coming through to lose everything. And the insurance companies will make SURE to pay as little as possible to their clients. Disasters of this size have caused insurance companies to go under more than once! They survive off loopholes that allow them to deny claims. 😑
Florida's homeowner's insurance has gotten SO bad, my friend can no longer get the insurance because her house is 30 years old and insurance companies statewide are refusing to cover older houses.
@@ArleneAdkinsZell I have the same issue. My house is 80 years old and our insurance dropped us after 20 years with them. Just in time for hurricane season, too. Florida is awful.
A lot of those companies are going to soon be facing lawsuits. They have been found intentionally altering appraisal/adjuster reports in favor of paying out less for damages. Essentially trying to put a bandaid on sections of structures that need a complete replacement.
The entire insurance industry, is nothing more than legalized con artists. They have no problem taking your money, but when you submit a claim. It's thoroughly investigated & they will find anything they can to reduce their payout. I have been in fire protection for 10 years & I've seen the shady shit they try to pull over their customers.
What's worse is if the slightest hint of potential fraud is suspected. You will have a full scale investigation on you & your claim. That's enforced by the government & punishable by law. However, that same amount of energy &/or effort. Isn't being used if the company itself is committing fraud.
Yeah, we went through Beryl here in the southeast Texas coast. We're 15 miles north of Galveston and we had some tree damage and part of our fence is down. Unfortunately, both of us are in our late 60s and sick, my husband's been in the hospital twice in the last 3 months. So, thankfully our neighbors love our Shelties and don't mind them wandering into their yard at times and they understand we're going to be awhile in fixing that fence. Beryl was nothing like Helene, I'm shocked at how big, and how powerful it was, all the way up to the north of Kentucky. Harvey was the closest we got to a Helene and it was a nightmare (52 inches of rain in our neighborhood).
I live in the area
This was very very bad….
You asked how you clean up after this. You start by sending in rescue dogs to find the living. Then you send in cadaver dogs to find the dead. After that you send in bulldozer. Hate to be blunt.
Still over 600 people missing in North Carolina
NC here. It was really rough. Tornado almost got us.
900 bodies in our hospital here in Asheville. They aren’t reporting the full numbers here to avoid panic. They pleaded for us that didn’t evacuate to write on names on our arms and legs so they can identify bodies
@@KrisDrumyou guys only had 2 hours to evacuate, and it was already flooded. I’m so glad I live in Charlotte, although Cowans ford dam almost broke
@@KrisDrum We heard two calls go out for body bags across the state. One request was for two hundred and the other for three hundred. We got lucky down here in the Hickory area. Our thoughts and prayers are with all yall up there.
@@jestertlsodx9897also in the hickory area had some heavy rain, roads closed , trees down , oxford dam was struggling lake lure dam was close to collapsing ,all the rivers are trashed with trees,boats,docks (seen video of someones boat going over oxford dam} i have family up in burnsville but its a black out zone and havent heard anything from there as far as i know
As of today, there's about 12+ private helicopters that have been operating out of Hickory, NC to fly in much needed supplies and bring people out that need medical attention, etc. since 500+ roads there are closed. A lot of people are stranded/trapped. The Cajun Navy (a disaster response/search and rescue organization out of Louisiana) has been providing help both in Florida and now concentrating efforts in western NC.
National Guard units from multiple states have been called in to help, plus other rescue task forces from Oklahoma City and even Canada, I believe. I would not be surprised if federal troops (the regular Army/Air Force) are eventually called in to help - they were for Hurricane Andrew (1992) and Hurricane Katrina (2005). It's really, really bad in that region.
we are AMERICANS. Of course, we'll rebuild and get back to normal, it's what we do...
And rally and help our fellow Americans!
Yes, and we do it well!
That's the spirit! :]
Because the government does fuck all & is pissing away $9b on EUrope's proxy war with Russia in Ukraine just as we're going into hurricane season.
The dems are garbage for the US, just like Labour is for the UK.
Yes it is and yes we will 😊
I live in Hendersonville North Carolina It's devastating around here. I have to charge my phone at public charging ports in town because no power but I was fortunate not to have any property damage in my condo complex.
I had to throw away a whole refrigerator of food and freezer of meat.
A lot of people lost their homes. Some lost their lives.
Edit: I forgot to mention we are also under an 8pm curfew. So people don't loot the Walmarts.
Hi! So I hate asking this question because it makes me sound crazy but is Hendersonville ok? I've seen reports about so many other places but not about there. Is the downtown ok? I used to have folks up there (not anymore) but I was just trying to check in to see how it was as I haven't seen anything out of there yet.
I’m in Spartanburg and it’s pretty bad as well here. Was stuck for three days and still no power. And ppl are shooting over gas here
I lost power with 40 thousand people in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. I was without power from Friday afternoon until Sunday evening. I am fortunate that my next-door neighbor is on a different power grid, so she had power when I didn't. She let me use her freezer and refrigerator, so my food loss was minimal. I kept the meat freezer closed, so now I won't have to defrost it. The last major outage, during Hurricane Ike in 2008, the ice in the freezer lasted 5 days. So glad to have power and to be able to turn on lights!
@@seerofsorrow Downtown is mostly okay. Parts of Main Street are open because they have power. That's where I go every day to charge my phone. I still have no power at my home. The churches are giving anyone who needs it drinking water and a hot meal.
Internet has been spotty because the towers keep going down. So everything is cash only.
Chimney Rock Village area, however, is completely gone. There are still people missing.
Thank you for your concern. I try to check my phone whenever I can.
As of now, at least 100 dead and many hundreds unaccounted for - including some of my own people. My heart goes out to all affected and pray for every family. ❤🙏
💔🙏🏼
Praying your family is found quickly and well.
I'm so sorry. I'll pray too.
Alas, this is par for the course for American Homeowners Insurance companies. Doesn't surprise me at all.
I live in Louisiana about 40 miles from the gulf. Hurricanes are a way of life. There have been other devastating hurricanes but I have never seen anything like this in my lifetime. Other people have said the same. It's really hard to watch because I think about what they're going through and that it could have been us. It's really hard to comprehend how whole towns have just been obliterated or submerged.
I'm just south of Asheville, NC. The problem we have isn't just that the storm hit, but it hit us after nearly two days of flooding rain. The soil was already saturated and weakened. So when the storm hit, the soil couldn't hold anymore water, and the soil couldn't hold the tress down when the winds came. The big river near me, The French Broad River, crested at 10 feet above the old record flood. At it's crest it was over 30 feet. Most places got over 2 feet of rain. During the storm we lost power, water, cell, Internet access, and were forced to sit in the dark and hear the winds as it knocked tree after tree over. We had no way to call for help, and there was no way for help to get to us. Even now the two roads out of our neighborhood are blocked. One road has multiple trees and a mudslide on it, and the other was washed out by a small stream. That small stream went from 2-4 feet across and a few inches deep to being over 30 feet across and around 15 feet deep. I could keep going but I think you get the picture. We need a lot of help!
Adam there's another big storm system that might turn into a hurricane & hit the same area which could make things worse in the next few days so please be careful if you're still planning to travel to Florida....millions are without power & they say it could take up to a week for it to come back on....yes he said that to make sure you could be identified by search & rescue....unfortunately most safe places & shelters don't allow animals so people choose to stay with their animals instead of abandoning them like some people end up doing when they evacuate....insurances always find ways to not pay for storm damages thats why so many people from Katrina still are affected so many years later
It's much less likely to develop and if it does, it will be nowhere near Helene. The only issue would be rain in places that don't need even more
The storm was so bad. My boss had a call everyone to say don't come in. The roads were too dangerous. A couple of my coworkers power went out , but we were lucky I guess.
Yet we do have two more storms developing in the ocean. Tropical Storm Joyce and Hurricane Isaac I did see a third storm on the radar, but it seems like it's heading away from the U.S
This is a saga comment but worth the read because it is on point; I know ranchers and farmers in the affected areas and it is horrible devastation.
"It affects you too…
If you think what’s going on in the southeast as a result of hurricane Helene doesn’t affect you, think again.
It’s been the beginning harvest season in these states. The southeastern states are big agricultural producers who have just lost homes, crops, livestock, friends, and more.
Cotton bolls were open across Georgia and South Carolina. When cotton is blown from the bowl, is wet, or touches the ground, it is a loss due to degradation of the fibers. When a cotton crop is lost, this means the price of cotton related goods will go up in the coming months. Your t-shirts, blue jeans, table cloths, q-tips, hats, and more will all be more expensive.
Peanuts weren’t all dug. Peanuts are a legume with the fruit of the plant being beneath the surface of the earth. Excessive water will cause them to rot and this will be a crop loss as well. This will affect the cost of your peanut butter, Reese’s cups, peanut brittle, Chick-fil-A (peanut oil), trail mix, and more.
Pecan orchards are at a loss as many trees have been blown over. After replanting, it takes years before these trees produce nuts. Pecan prices are already high as they are tough to come by, and are a luxury import for other countries such as China. Pecans are used in lots of baked goods, especially around Christmas and other holidays. The dessert tables at the coming holidays will be priced higher.
Peach trees have been blown over and lost in some areas as well. Peaches are a delicate crop that had finally recouped after a previous season loss due to frost and freeze. Peaches will also be in lower supply next season, and we all know Georgia and South Carolina have the best peaches.
Livestock producers have experienced loss, but will continue to face even more loss over time. Many producers rely on wells to water their livestock as they are in rural areas. Wells require power to generate a water source. Generators are great, but many areas are also out of fuel as well. Stress from these difficult conditions on animals will also reduce their productivity over time.
While we worry for all farmers and our food supply, our hearts are with dairy producers. Approximately 20% of dairy farms in Georgia are still without power, and some without generator options. No power means no good way to milk cows. Milking by hand isn’t realistic for many family operations as their milking herds are larger than what can be hand milked in a day. These animals can’t just stop producing milk. Many are uncomfortable, stressed, and will be subject to related health problems of not being milked. Watching the animals you love and rely on suffer due to no fault of your own is extremely difficult. Milk, cheese, butter, ice cream, and other dairy products may be in limited supply over the coming months.
With farmers losing their crops and livestock, they’re also at a loss for an income source. They are not paid by the hour, but by the weight of their product.
They will spend months in clean up. Extra manual labor will be required to try to preserve family farming operations. They will be tired and weary.
Remember the farmers and their passion to produce quality products as you feed your families. When prices for goods increase in the coming months, please don’t complain. Farmers are losing their livelihoods and still earn only pennies on the dollar. They need your grace, prayers, support, and compassion as their future is extremely uncertain. It affects you too."
Beautifully put. We all are much more connected than we realize.
Well put! There’s also the hog farming in the Carolinas. They often use wastewater ponds for wallowing and manure removal so they work like open-air septic tanks. When they flood they can overwhelm water treatment facilities for scores of miles down river.
Yep, that area in WNC is covered in apple orchards. So good chance the prices will be effected.
Very well said!
And the dock workers strike means even less food
Had helicopters flying over my house since Friday taking help and supplies into the mountains
the hurricane collided with another large low pressure system inland and caused over 20+inches of rain inland, flooding western NC, eastern TN, Georgia, etc.
VIRGINIA.... Why won't ANYONE mention us?! Do you think the state line is a 1000ft wall that kept us safe?
@@lavenderoh???
Im in western NC the whole western part of NC is closed. Interstate 40 is washed away. Still no power since 5am Fri.
Same. I am in Hendersonville. I have to charge my phone in town where there's some power but I haven't had power at home and lost a whole fridge and freezer of food. Luckily I don't have property damage but lots of neighbors do. We are under curfew as well. 8pm
Praying for you from Raleigh
@@sandydyson1934also from Raleigh here!! Well holly springs/apex area right outside Raleigh.
Hope you’re making out ok
@@sarahbritt1234 Stay safe out there! My father is up on Sugarloaf Mountain stuck. It's funny since he moved from the coast to get away from hurricanes. He's been told it will be at least 2 weeks before power is back.
For context on how overreaching Hurricane Helene was, I visited family in Southern Illinois this weekend and we got two days straight of nonstop rain. And we’re far from the coast, this was like two days after it hit down in the South East.
Yup, it was far reaching! I’m in Ohio and we had 55 to 60 mph winds and heavy rain on Saturday from Helene. Thousands were without power and some still are without power.
And to think there's another system in the Caribbean right now, that could form into a hurricane and hit the same areas again. Pray for the south. We can't deal with another one right now.
Looks like it’s still headed for you, 😢. Please be careful! 🙏
I just found out there’s another hurricane on the way this weekend. Georgia been hit with hurricane, Biolab explosion, and gas leak within the same week in my area. it’s crazy. Can’t even get a break! My prayers go out to those severely affected by the storm :(
Hoping it misses us at this point
So the insurance company says because he didn't take his camper & truck 100 miles out of the storm radius they won't be covered.. if he had done that he wouldn't need a claim Duh. He should've gave their name smh
Insurance is a racket. They're scumbags.
Insurance always tries to back out of paying in natural disasters. It usually takes a mass lawsuit to get pay outs, or other people and charities to step in and help out.
Yeah, I had to get a lawyer for my roof that was damaged after hurricane Ian. They tried to claim my roof damage was regular wear and tear. There are two LARGE holes in my fkin ceiling/roof that was not there until now! It was absolutely ridiculous the shenanigans they were trying to pull. But I got a new roof covered by them in the end. But what a hassle. And of course they raised my insurance policy by 3 grand. 🙄 Smh. New policy basically covers nothing unless my house gets completely wiped off the map. But even then, they’d probably try to say it’s just “wear and tear.” 🥴 Ugh, can’t stand them.
Sounds like a class action lawsuit in the making. I'm sure that company is going to try that with many others too. So many people are going to be struggling after this, but the lawyers are going to be raking in money while trying to hold the insurance companies accountable for their agreements! Hope they are successful.
The storm had a radius of 250 miles. Even if he went 100 miles inland he still would have been screwed. I hope his insurance company goes bankrupt
Insurance is a scam period... You pay and pay and pay And then when you newd it they just screw you over....
Exactly why I plan on just going somewhere in the woods away from society
This 💯
I’m in Florida. I’ve had a few home insurance claims that were paid, but it was a fight. On one occasion, a.company who did some repair work sued the insurance company on our behalf (unknown to us). Their part of the work was under $500. The insurance company ended up paying $3300. While that sounds like a happy ending, it’s very difficult to obtain insurance now (they’ll drop you after a couple of claims), and the cost is outrageous. In 2002, our home insurance cost was $525 per year; now it’s $5500.
Yet those insurers have really nice homes, vehicles, boats, RVs, etc.; pretty much very well off if not outright very wealthy.
I saw a video of someone who lived in a travel trailer on his mom's property where she lived in a pre-fab home. Mom's home survived but his trailer and truck were demolished. He notified his insurance and they said they wouldn't cover anything because he did not move the trailer more than 100 miles outside of the storm, ya know the storm that was hundreds of miles wide.🤦♀
During a hurricane some years back, a State Governor ordered an evacuation of low-lying areas. The he issued a very serious piece of advice to anyone who chose not to leave : "Get a Magic Marker and write your Social Security Number on your arm so that we can identify your body" !! Some people still didn't listen. Oh, that Sheriff just said the same thing.
It's a common warning given every time there's a major hurricane coming. Growing up in Florida, I always heard it. Sometimes they'll add: " No, on second thought, don't write it on your arm, fish eat your arm. Write it on your torso."
Yeah, they don't play.
They did that in Virginia Beach when it looked like Isabel was going to be a direct hit.
Yeah we were told to do that when I went to NOLA with the Red Cross after Katrina too. And when I went to DC for the women’s march. Basically anytime you might get separated from your belongings in a large group of strangers it’s a smart idea.
The Gulf of Mexico’s waters are so warm for the entirety of the Gulf that any tropical cyclone can enter as a disorganized mess and emerge by the coast as a monster. And in less than two days. Crazy
Global warming has created conditions where a tropical storm can form a powerful hurricane faster than people check the news (such as Hurricane Beryl which the Prime Minister of Grenada described as "apocalyptic" at the time) which is shocking.
I live in Florida in the Tampa Bay area, some of us did okay. Others lost it all. My coworker lost 2 friends in Indian Rocks Beach. They drowned in their own homes.
Chimney Rock is in Western North Carolina. Beautiful area near the Appalachians.
You start with helping you family and neighbors,then heavy equipment,bulldozers etc.,then electricity…..As far as insurance they look for every opportunity to screw people , I had a business and lost power for 2 weeks my inventory in the frig was lost ( 25/30,0000$) because power was lost before the breaker panel they were not responsible, $7,800 a year for business interruption!!! All bullshyte
Insurance is one of the things that genuinely boils my blood. The one service meant to help people in need also takes advantage of them.
@@Paradox_Incognitoby history insurance has never been intended to help people.
I'm on the gulf coast near Tampa in Florida. Entire towns are just covered in sand. It's like nothing I've ever seen. We had record storm surge up and down the coast, and clean up will take months. Some streets have 6 feet of sand. The storm was 100 miles off our coast. It's just so sad.
I’m in the oldsmar area, we have spent the weekend helping friends and others in the community around Ozona, Crystal beach, and Oldsmar clear out their flooded homes. This is the worst I’ve seen in the Bay Area in my lifetime.
One of my neighbors lost his family in the storm, wife and son, and his property was destroyed. He went back to his land yesterday and ended his own life. The mountain communities are devastated and we're struggling. But most of us will get through.
Insurance companies make money by NOT paying!
It was absolutely devastating for us here in Valdosta, ga. It hit us with 120 mph winds and the eye wall came directly over us.
My family is in East Tennessee and SW Virginia, which were hit horribly. I am so grateful that my family is fine. There are people in Tennessee that are landlocked, with no roads to leave. The roads have been washed away. Helicopters are being used to bring in some supplies but it is not enough. It has destroyed our mountains.
As for your question about who will rebuild it? The communities will. I am going to share something with you. The government doesn’t care about us. We have a saying in the south: if you are waiting on the government to save you, then you are already dead. Tennesseans, Virginians, and North Carolinians are strong people and we will take care of each other.
With all due respect that’s just not true. The president has already been on the phone with every single governor and a few mayors of the every state hit except for Desantis. He refused the president’s call or aid. I’ve seen the press conferences in just about every state and all of the governors have said that they’ve spoken to the president. He’s allocated 11 billion dollars up front with more money and resources on the way. Desantis turned him down. Please stop spreading things that just aren’t true. We’re hurting here in Georgia and Gov Kemp said that the president said he would provide whatever we need. This isn’t about the left or the right. This is about doing right for all of us affected. Stay safe.
Adam , not to sound Arrogant. Americans are use to Hurricanes, FLOODS, Blizzards, Tornado 🌪️, Earthquakes, Fires etc. every part of North America deals with a different Natural Disaster. We prepare as best we can . We get help from the Federal Government ( Federal Emergency Management Agency) where possible. It’s the American Spirit that enables people to rebuild, dig out etc. We actually have aircraft designed to fly into Hurricanes and Blizzards to save as many lives as possible. Here on the East Coast , we have Evacuation Routes to get people out of harms way. Those with trucks help with debris, Most of us own chainsaws, Those of us with boats do what rescue we can . Natural Disasters usually bring people together
SO, where is FEMA, and the POTUS and VP....MIA as usual! All supplies they have received are from everyday Americans like Pinball Prepper and his followers, Appalachia with Patera, Bear Independant, and All their followers, the list goes On AND ON!!
My area is near a fault line so we've been bracing ourselves for it. During the summer: Utah and California burst into flames the easiest.
We are used to natural disasters, but they've been getting so much worse in the last twenty years.
The eye of the hurricane came over my house Friday morning. I live almost 500 miles away from the Florida coast in South Carolina. It was really scary. I was without power until late Saturday. A lot of people are still without power. I took a drive today and it looks like a war zone.
I live in Florida and this storm was horrific. My family is safe and we had minimal damage thankfully. But, so many in Florida and the other states Helene hit have lost so much, including their lives. Sending love to everyone who was affected by this beast of a storm 😞💜
Tampa native here!! Lots of people in the nearby city of St Pete have been though dozens of hurricanes but this hurricane brought a storm surge bigger than anyone had seen before. Peoples cars were covered under 3 feet of sand
People in Florida were warned about this storm 10 days in advance
My little town seemed to be situated just right, where we missed out on most of the real damage. Having said that, I’m a wildlife rehabilitator, and have taken in dozens of baby squirrels who were orphaned, or their trees were knocked down during the storm. More come in every day. You don’t really even think of all the wildlife who suffer as well as the people during and after storms like this 😢
You are supposed to evacuate but many are unable to do that due to traffic and cost.
Plus, Florida has lost a number of gas stations along the northern I-75 corridor in the last decade. (The stations closed, property sold, and other things built in their stead. A lot of banks, for some reason.) I like the idea of widening the Florida Turnpike - that seems to be going well. However, having a bunch of people running out of gas on northbound I-75 (the turnpike empties into I-75) is a really monumentally bad idea. In 2004, the northern migration to avoid Hurricane Frances emptied Gainesville of gasoline. Gainesville is home to the University of Florida, so a lot of Floridians know the city well, including where gas stations are. We need to fix this infrastructure problem. Sending bunches of tankers into Florida, by itself, is not a solution if the highways gridlock with out-of-gas vehicles.
the guy said they couldn't leave because a tree fell over a bridge so they were trapped.
Its so sad how many people are overwhelmed by this.
@@originalismisacrock166 aye, just moving grid lock from one spot to another.
@@bugvswindshield We also had a tree fall Thursday night and block us in, but we only had a handful of gusts in the 70 to 90 m.p.h. range. We are not in an evacuation zone, and at an elevation over 175 feet.
You don't know you should evacuate if you don't have any evacuation orders or weather predictions. That's what just happened. VA, TN, and NC had ZERO warning let alone any evacuation orders.
I survived this, living in my car. I knew it would be bad on the coast so I went to Orlando and paid for 5 days in the Orlando international airport parking garage. I had fire wood a couple small propane tank a for a camping stove. A cooler full of food. Then went camping in a car garage. I’m still here and because of my location I was safe and sheltered.
I'm glad you're safe, man. That's...thinking outside the box, I guess. Necessity being the mother of invention and all that.
Well done. That was smart.
the only way I would live in Florida again is in a tent.
I live in a part of South Carolina that wasn't hit too bad. That said, I know people, I have friends in North Carolina, who have lost their homes. One of my best friends is stranded, completely. He has no gas, no clean water, no power, and spotty cell service. He's listening to government radio broadcasts about what to do, and relying on supplies being airdropped in. It's post-apocalyptic, and I'm terrified for him.
Jesus. I have family in northern SC (60-ish mi from Ashville) and they've lost power too. Best wishes to you and your friends!
@@Paradox_Incognito Thank you! And best wishes to your family as well. I hope they stay safe. This was a scary storm, because no one anticipated how bad it would be and so they didnt prepare.
I live in Florida's panhandle east of the Big Bend of Florida which got the worst of the wind and storm surge. Floridians are used to this (usually -except for the 'Snowbirds') and have a more casual attitude. About 3 days earlier we were warned to prepare for the usual possibility of the Hurricane. This meant making sure you have supplies, food, batteries and flashlights and making sure the portable generator is working if the power goes out. Making sure your insurance is updated, and the important documents are safe. Having a bag packed with a change of clothes if you need to go to a shelter. Also waiting to hear if there is a mandatory evacuation order to be put out. Boarding up widows to help protect from the windows. Floridians are used to this. But Helene carried a lot of moisture with it to the states north of Florida. This dropped as rain and caused flash flooding. this was unexpected and the people there were caught off guard. They didn't have time to prepare and suffered a lot.
Its bad. Like really bad. This is worse than Katrina. Florida will rebuild fairly quickly, but North Carolina will take a generation to come back, if it does at all.
True. We're not used to this kinda thing. Not as bad as Hugo was but man
I went through Katrina. It was bad, really bad, but what I'm seeing on the news from North Carolina is much worse. Folks living on the Gulf Coast know how to deal with hurricanes, how to prepare, how to survive afterward, how to begin the cleanup before insurance or FEMA shows up...but these people had no idea what was coming. This is just heartbreaking.
There's no way to prepare for this. The water recede in FL, and what is usually the worst damage is right near the coast in the storm surge. What happened here was totally different. We were getting rained on, hard, before it even hit Florida by another system. Then it came in and added more rain and wind. Three dams were breached, letting tons of water rush down the rivers. Erwin, TN is literally surrounded by mountains, and all that water rushing down them washed out two bridges on the Nolichucky River. Then, it proceded downstream and washed out another bridge on Greene County. The Nolichucky, French Broad, and Pigeon rivers all flooded. With the town of Newport next to the Pigeon River and near the French Broad downtown flooded. They were able to evacuate. Once the three rivers converged at Douglas Lake, Douglas Dam was able to control how much water was released to help keep flooding at a minimum downstream.
I-26 was one of the bridges washed out in TN. I-40 got gouged out of the mountain and washed out. That has cut the people off that live in some of the hills and hollers. Water can not be stopped, and when Mother Nature dumps on you like this, there is no way to be prepared.
And TN. And VA.
I agree that a Part 2 of this video would be great! In my area of East Tennessee, take a look at the Nolichucky dam! On Friday night it failed, and evacuation orders were sent out after midnight. But by a miracle, the dam didn't collapse and it still stands! So many lives were saved!! At its peak, the dam took on nearly 1.2 million gallons per second, which is nearly double what Niagara Falls sees during its highest peak at 700,000 gallons per second! The dam was built over 100 years ago in 1912, and it truly is a miracle that it still stands.
Wind damage here in Gainesville, not that intense rain like up north, my fishing spot 40 minutes from me, Cedar Key I do not think will ever exist anymore
Watching this video by candlelight in Greenville, SC where we are still without power. My mom lives in Lake Lure which is the town next to Chimney Rock. The devastation is truly tragic.
By the way, two of the three major highways--you'd call them motorways--that connect the states of North Carolina and Tennessee, Interstate 26 and Interstate 40, are closed. I-26 will be closed until December. I-40 will be closed until next September at the earliest. They will have to rebuild miles of carriageway due to water damage and landslides. And truckers will have to take massive detours. And remember, this is several hundred miles inland from the Florida coast where Helene came ashore and caused all that coastal damage.
Watch the 60 minutes episode that came on last night (9/29/2024) about your insurance question. You will be in awe on how bad the insurance companies will rip these people off.
I live in Nashville and we got more rain on Friday than we normally get in the entire month of September. We're wet, but much luckier than the folks in East TN and Western NC. Those folks won't be recovering soon. Prayers to all affected.
I live in Texas and I have been praying for everyone. The devastation is unimaginable. I will be donating to Samaritan's Purse for aid to the survivors.
The damage from Helene has been absolutely devastating to the entire southeast. We actually had wind from Helene all the way up here in Chicago. I don’t even know where anyone would start to clean up after this. Just heartbreaking. And there’s another storm brewing in the Caribbean heading towards the gulf. The gulf coast is a nice place to visit but I would never want to live there. I’ll take a blizzard any day.
I live in Western North Carolina. It's pretty bad here. I'm very lucky that my family and I are safe. But there are tens of thousands of people in the area that are dealing with loss of property including their homes. Several people are dead and hundreds missing. A couple of towns that are destroyed. There are lanes of the interstate there are completely gone and will take months to get repaired. It's crazy and we weren't even in the eye of the storm.
4:00 When a hurricane is coming, they issue evacuations. You don't go in a basement. You go inland. Sometimes 100 miles inland, sometimes you have to leave the entire state until the storm is over. You leave your home behind, and pray it's still there when you come back.
As someone who has been in over 30 hurricanes this isn't true.
@@markwilson4546 Is it not? I don't mean this in any passive aggressive way. Please correct me, and I will edit my comment.
And sometimes when you evacuate, it follows you up. I got stuck in a pickup truck on the interstate during Opal, 6 months pregnant, vehicles rocking all around us, tornado warnings with nowhere to go since traffic was stopped... it was awful. It followed the path we traveled to "safety". Came back down to Florida afterward, cutting tree limbs out of the road on the way, and our home was untouched...
@DeskaFolf it's definitely true. You go inland and try to get out of its path. Many don't because they either don't have the money, the ability to do so (disabled/elderly), or due to the fact they're too stubborn to realize how bad a storm like that can get. I understand the boy who cried wolf affect that usually happens in these scenarios play a part too. You get told many times how a hurricane will be big and ends up a tropical storm or maybe cat 1. The problem with hurricanes is that although you know they're out there in the water, you can't truly predict how big or small it'll actually be until it gets close enough to where it's going. The trajectory can also change suddenly. As predictable as they seem to be, they're unpredictable. Mother nature in general is.
And sometimes you hunker down and hope for the best because you have no money to evacuate and nowhere to go. Evacuations are in many cases a privilege. Not all, some communities are good about coordinating help to get everybody out but when it’s up to citizens themselves evacuation is a luxury that not everybody has access to.
From North Carolina here. About 30 or so minutes out of the mountains and it's rough here as well. Glad you did a video bro. Your a legend
North Carolina is gone. My family is gone bro. I'm praying to God to help my family.
Sending prayers brother ❤️
What??? Wait. I have family in Henderson, Durham, and Rocky Mount. Where are you????
@@MoreAdamCouser I got some of it up here in Virginia I can just imagine what Florida and georga got😭
@@auntlucysbeautygarden2632 I know Durham area is fine. It is mainly the mountains that have been completely wrecked. It is nearly impossible to travel through the western part of NC right now. Even I40 is closed.
Praying. Our friends just found their parents who were in the mountains at their vacation cabin in NC. They had been missing until today. Took two four wheelers out there and found them. I’m not recommending you do that that’s just what they did. Our little town in south GA is devastated. Trees through homes. No power. Lots of people on wells so no water.
0:28 You have to understand... I live in Cincinnati, Ohio, which was at the very edge of the storm. We had over 40 thousand people without power. We also had localized flooding. I got my power back on three days after it went out. It went out again briefly today. I have so many branches down that I have to rake them up before I mow my lawn.
Now imagine being in the middle of that storm, and realize there's another hurricane building up speed that's likely to hit the areas that are still flooded, with no phone service, without food or clean drinking water, and without power. There are still 600+ people missing, so their families don't know if they're dead or simply can't call home because their phone is dead.
We are very fortunate that we had the 1937 flood. It forced public officials to build a flood wall to protect the city. The water reached my family's business, and was up to the roof of a two story building, and it was a 1/2 mile from the river. In the local paper, they did a 75-year retrospective on the flood. On the front page was a picture of our accountant, Ruth, standing in a window instructing the men where to put her files in the 2 rowboats, as they worked to evacuate the last of their salvageable equipment.
I hope they manage to find the missing people. Cleanup could take years...
Thankfully, I only lost my car in the flood, prayers for all who lost their lives, and everyone who lost their home.
I live in Perry, FL where Helene made Landfall we also had 2 other major hurricanes hit. Aug 30, 2023 Hurricane Idalia Cat 3 and Aug 5th 2024 Hurricane Debby Cat 1 all made Landfall off the coast of Taylor County FL. So far alot of people have lost their homes, businesses completely gone we still were trying to recover from Idalia that hit us Last year when Debby and Helene came through a month apart from each other. Our community is praying for everyone that is going through the same situation as we are. I also would like to add that some of our rescue and first responders from our county are there in NC and Tennessee trying to help with the search and recovery efforts for the people that are deemed missing.
3:59. In Georgia here, but only 20 miles from Tallahassee, FL. We got hit pretty hard. When you asked “where do you go?” -The answer is IF you evacuate, you drive to safer towns. We went to Pensacola to evacuate. Otherwise, most people stay and just buckle down at home. The other option is most towns setup storm shelter locations.
However, the storm moved slightly east and Tallahassee didn’t get it so bad. Smaller towns to the east took the brunt of it.
I wish more people around the world that make fun/hate, of the USA for just about any reason, would know that....
"Americans can always count on each other to help each other, complete strangers always step up and lend a hand including every other state gathers help, food, clothing, generators, emergency services, guys with their big pickup trucks and fishing boats travel from other states to rescue anyone from high water and stranded people, animals, farm animals, etc."
I love my fellow Americans, average people, we always help one another in times of need, we have just about every type of natural disaster possible all over the entire country. The last Volcano eruption was 1980.
Think about it flordia 8s sending rescue crews to nc that completely shut off
We are Floridians living in Georgia. When we saw the path my husband said "oh no, the hollers" (valleys). Coastal Southerners know to flee from wind damage. Tons of water rushing down mountains into lower towns is much more threatening and destructive 💔
I'm in North Carolina, I'm a bit east of the disaster areas. Prayers for all the people affected
I remember a few years ago a hurricane hit virginia and I was new to the state. I had never lived near the ocean. I didn't know. The hurricane started at night when I was going home. I was so scared when the water took my car and I couldn't do anything because it was being dragged away by the water. I managed to break the window and get to the roof of the car, it was terrifying. When I hear and see what happened during Hurricane Helene I just go into shock. My situation wasn't as bad as it could have been, I was floating on my car for awhile but not too long. This... This looks horrible.
I am in eastern north carolina.ALL roads in and out of the western part of north carolina are closed and alot are totally torn apart and whole towns wiped off the map that no longer exist.houses brought off their foundation and swept away.cars submerged under water.some with people in them.all forms of communication do not work.the only way to get supplies in is by air.yes they told ppl to write names on themselves to be identified.911 our emergency system is not opearational.no way to communicate and let someone you need help or yes you are still alive
Chimney Rock NC/ Lake Lure is literally one of the most beautiful places on this planet. I hope they build it back more beautiful than before. Prayers to all.
I live in middle TN and even in East Tennessee, 150 miles from where I am there is so much devastation. One thing that makes me proud to be a southerner is we always take care of our own. My town and many other counties around us have already sent people to Eastern Tennessee, to the Carolinas to Georgia and all the way down when to Florida. There’s already donation drives happening right now for us to send supplies to the people in need. Absolutely heartbreaking and they need all the prayers they can get.
Yes! Also in middle TN. We got lucky - I feel terrible for the folks impacted further east 💔
Yet you're still forgetting Virginia, like everyone else including our governor who sent crews to Florida knowing people in southwest Virginia were without power, water, and cell service. Not to mention the fact that we had no warning at ALL!!! THANK YOU INDIANA for having a governor with sense and sending your people to Virginia to help us!!!
@@lavenderohI had no idea Virginia was impacted too. That’s terrible
Hello from Cumberland County North Carolina. In the Sandhills region not Western NC
When hurricanes get to the Gulf of Mexico the warm waters intensify the hurricane 🌀 no basements in Florida, the storm surge we witnessed was insanity prayers to all affected
I was watching storm chasers livestreams on the storm when it hit. That was the most horrifying night I've had sitting in my room in the UK at 3am, with pringles and pepsi watching as home gets destroyed and swept away, people trying to escape last minute and just the pure wind and rain curtains! Helene was upgraded to a cat 4 right before landfall, and was said to be a cat 5 if it intensified further. It was devestating and all I could do was sit there, watch it, and pray for those in the path!
It broke my heart hearing and seeing the posts on twitter about counties telling people who were refusing to leave to write their information on their bodies with perm marker so they could identify their bodies. It really went to show just how devestating they all knew the storm was going to be, and how low survival chances were especially with the surge.
"Write your information with perminant marker so we can identify you", "Un Survivable storm surge"... I wasn't even there to experience the hurricane, yet those 2 phrases are going to haunt me every time Helene comes up.
RIP to those who lost their lives, as of Monday 30th September 2024, about 118 deaths have been reported, and 750 unaccounted/missing people are yet to be found...
You cant have a basement that close to the water.
The water table is to high.
In FL, no basements. High water table. During a storm, you don't go in a basement.
@@lilyz2156
Jesus Christ!!!
Uh....I believe I just said that.
Reading comprehension much?
My nephew lives in Asheville. He was able to get out Saturday and head to his mom's house. I-40 near the TN state line is now part of the French Broad River. I drove that way going out west back in June, so...
ETA: It's bad out in the Chimney Rock/Lake Lure area. Chimney Rock from what I've heard is gone. Hell, Florida is sending us help, and they took the brunt of the hurricane.
It’s not 2 million people without power. It’s 2 million “customers” without power. Each one is a household or business. Asheville, NC is still flooded and has no power, no running water, and no cell service and no real estimate when they’ll get it back. I live in north Florida and I’m very thankful that I don’t live in Keaton Beach or Asheville.
And yes, Florida insurance is absurd. Hurricane insurance doesn’t cover storm surge and flood insurance has to be purchased separate from home insurance. Most insurance providers have just left. They don’t provide insurance in Florida and those that remained have raised their rates literally hundreds of percent. A guy I work with was just reclassified as living in a flood zone last week and will have to pay $14,000+ a year just for the extra fl insurance.
We were very lucky in Atlanta that the hurricane went a little east of us, instead of on top as predicted. The worse side of a hurricane is the east side, which is why the most damage happened to the east of the hurricane track. However, we did get 10 inches/25cm of rain in 48 hours, and the lower parts of my neighborhood were flooded. And we were LUCKY! The folks in Asheville are in dire situations. No power, water, internet, phone line - nothing. Entire little cities were swept off the map. One friend in eastern North Carolina had their house lifted from its foundation, and of course had mud/water damage inside, but they can salvage things and replace things with insurance. Others had to be plucked off their roofs if they didn't evacuate. Now those who did evacuate want to get back to see their damage, but it's unsafe, and the roads to get to their houses are gone. Just...gone. It's horrible. Please send the folks in SE Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, and especially the mountains of North Carolina, prayers or positive thoughts. They need all the help they can get.
Insurance companies are sticking people with a ungodly bill .one mans bill should have been around 15 grand for his whole house to be fixed ......well they sent him a bill for 300,000
The rivers in the mountains overflowed and covered highways in North Carolina, including I-40. Where road remains, the supporting earth is gone. I don't know how they even approach repairing that, when it's happened all along the highway and not in just a couple of places. Got to have useable roads to get equipment in to help with cleanup and rebuilding.
There is another hurricane forming and it looks like Florida is going to take a second hit. The name of this one will be Milton. We will know more in the next couple days. 🙏🌹🙏
Many insurance companies stopped covering people in Florida over the last few years. There's just too many storms now.
I’m all the way up in the mountains in Virginia and we just got our power back yesterday afternoon and it’s still raining here. The Roanoke river is way over along with the James river so we’re just waiting for it to finish going through! But my sisters family in South Georgia who was directly in the path of the hurricane is still hunkered down at her husband’s family farm about two hours away from her home. As far as we know her house is ok but I think they lost their garage and camper
Theres a chance of another possible hurricane comming right behind it. The size of the area of distruction is just devistating!
I’m in NC, western NC and eastern Tennessee is our favorite place to visit. Unfortunately western NC obviously no one had hurricane insurance or flood insurance. Asheville still has 600 missing
South Carolinian here, over 1.4 million in SC without power… it’s day 4 for no power for me in general. But that’s nothing compared to what’s going on in Western North Carolina, every single road is closed. Prayers for those people, I thought I had it bad. What’s going on in my life is easy compared to North Carolinians. North Carolina is such a beautiful state and I’m not sure if they’ll ever recover from this.
I’m from Anderson County. I just got my power back last night after 3 days of no power. I have friends and family that still don’t have power. Stay strong my friend.
@@krisoraxe5917 I’m from Laurens county homie, right down the road haha. Thanks my friend, many blessings.
Thank you for thinking of us at a time like this. It is the peak of hurricane season hopefully you wont be here to experience one.
NC was hit hard. South Ga was hit hard. Very sad. Totally devastating.
Tennessee and Virginia were too!!! Please don't continue to exclude us! We matter just as much.
Florida's governor was so well prepared that it took him just 2 days to get the electricity back to MILLIONS. He is now sending Florida's rescue operation to North Carolina (a few entire states away) That man is a BOSS, Florida is soo lucky
If it's any good news, a town named Winchester with a population of around 10,000, located in extreme eastern southern middle Tennessee, (just minutes west from the Appalachian mountains) managed to be spared due to the last minute easternly track of the storm. Winchester is a lake community controlled by a dam. Although its a huge tourist spot for hiking, camping, boating, and fishing, most people who actually live there are quite poor. If that dam would've failed, who knows what would've happened. Possibly tens more people would've died and 100s would've had their lives changed. Especially since this is popular summer home destination and people from Florida actually sometimes evacuate to their vacation houses there.
Whether you beileve this was Divine intervention or just shere dumb luck, it doesn't matter because the end result of this town being spared from mass destruction is the same.
Of course, this doesn't change the areas still effected. Please donate or try and help in any way you can. I personally recommend donating to a nonprofit called the Yall Squad.
Yes to Y'all Squad, a channel from Ryan Hall Y'all
In my town in NC it broke a 100 year record things are still absolutely wrecked
Pensacola here ......been here since 67....went through Fredrick,erin ,opal,stood in the eye of ivan.......just to name a few.........this is called Floridaing....meaning,to do Florida type things...yes there is a youtube channel just for that ....Most people here cant afford flood insurance .....read your policy very well before getting insurance. ...BUT !!!!!...we help others if we can ,and we will rebuild...SALT LIFE.......😎
Hello Adam! I moved to Utah 6 weeks ago from Asheville, NC. It's crazy knowing how lucky I got by moving but also devastating that my friends lost everything. I worked at the Mission Memorial Hospital not to far from Biltmore Village. It's where all of my friends are held up. I wish I could fly back there to help them. They have been texting me like crazy when the cell towers got repaired.
My dad lives 35 min north of Tampa/St Pete. His area didn't get the worst of it and the flooding is absolutely devastating. Thousands of homes in the area lost nearly everything to 3 feet of water in their homes. I came to help with the cleanup and it's heartbreaking. Miles of homes with 90-100% of their furniture and belongings at the curb. Power for many will be out for weeks or possibly months. (There's a Jet ski in my dad's backyard and he doesn't own a Jet ski)
Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia were all affected. It's horrific. I'm in Tennessee. In Bradley County, we had a centuries-old oak tree that was uprooted and blown over.
Yep - write your name & SS# on your arm in case you become a casualty. I never heard that before, but it's a very good idea - even if you do evacuate. If I had kids, i would have all of them identified this way during an emergency like this, for even if they just wander off away from me. A very sobering thought. I've seen the videos - the flood surges from the storm & flooded rivers, landslides, houses & other buildings just flattened from wind & water, trees blown over everywhere - thousands of trees.
I live in California - give me an earthquake over a hurricane almost anytime.
"How do you start to clean this up." The National Guard gets called in to help, along with other government agencies, and a metric ton of volunteers. :(