Mayor of Asheville, North Carolina suburb outlines damage from Helene | USA TODAY

Mayor Patrick Fitzsimmons of Weaverville, North Carolina, a suburb of Asheville, outlines damage left by Helene, including to the town's water plant.

#Northcarolina #hurricane #flooding

[arlenesmith]

Our beloved Ashville, we are praying for you!!! Stay safe everyone!

[paulwilson]

Canadian here…..last 3 years visiting Asheville. I’m so sorry for the residents and the devastation to your unique environment and history. 😔

[Sandman]

I attended an Asiatic Fleet Reunion in Asheville, one of my AF veteran friends lived in Asheville, served on the USS Asheville, and his last name was Ashe. Praying for quick recovery to your beautiful home.

[geologyjoerocks]

My sister lives there. I was just there a few months ago. It’s a beautiful city and I hope they can recover quickly.

[coffeemountain]

I live in Woodfin, the next town north of Asheville. I have been though lost of natural disasters over the years in various areas where I lived. Only the wildfires a few years ago in Colorado were worse than this. Western NC and Eastern TN were both hit VERY hard with all this rain. We had a huge rain event pass through ahead of the hurricane. The area is without power and water. Cell service has returned intermittently…which is how I was able to check YT. The recovery for these areas will be a long difficult process.

[ross-smithfamily]

It's the mayor of Weaverville, North Carolina.

[JimsMopars]

Tell people that they have plenty of water in their water heaters.

[novelettewilliams]

No light not water in my area Candler everything is closed as we speak ..It's more than a disaster

[robster]

I don’t think people realize that Asheville of all places is on a mountain.

Its like 500m-900m *above sea level.*

People saying that its safer away from flood by moving to Raleigh has no idea how floods work. Even Durham was flooded.

[Cerceify]

I was worried about Weaverville. My grandfather was from Weaverville. I visited what was left of their old homesite with him as a teenager. Once I and my father, Joe Bowen, visited so he could look up some of the history of the Bowen and Freeman family. Then the town looked very depressed. When I visited about ten years ago Weaverville downtown was booming and had a beautiful community of businesses downtown. Very Welcoming people also. I loved driving around the old farm sites and visiting Mars Hill and my great great great grandfather's old log church. God Bless. I live in Levy County, Florida several miles inland from the Gulf and was quite scared but had only minor damage.

[groovingranny]

Floridian; I feel for you, I have been though it myself. Be kind to each other. The best we all can do to help is donate to the Red Cross.

[igit_]

What the commenters don’t understand is that less than 6% of American household actually have flood insurance.

Americans have lots of money saved up for just these kind of disasters. By saving money from skipping on flood insurance for decades upon decades, most Americans can rebuild and rebound from this unfortunate occurrence just fine.

[Christy]

I just saw they are in need of baby bottles..

[noolrlw]

Dams 😮 are making things worse, when time is right, some of these dams should be removed 😮

[norm]

This guy don't know what he's talking about those roads are not open

[truthrn]

Worst handling of a disaster ever. From the power companies to the mayor to the inconsiderate jerks hogging all the food in stores. Asheville is a joke.

[virginiai.]

Correct your title. This is NOT regarding Ashville!

[j.]

Ask our Florida leaders to help guide you through this challenging time. Our Republican leadership WILL get things done …hope you all are safe…..

[fueledbylove]

Time to employ a disaster recovery plan Mayor.

[Dr_Manhattan_Phd]

It's not socialism when you need help, but it's socialism when other people need help, is that it?

I love how Red states contribute very little in federal taxes but need the most help, like North Carolina, like Florida, like Kentucky... But us "liberals" in CA, NY, are the problem when we contribute the most federal taxes?