Chimney Rock, North Carolina: 11 days after Hurricane Helene

“This is so much worse than we could have imagined.”

[jenna]

Landscape mode, please ! Thank you for the update !

[alpittman]

Please do "full screen" and please set up some kind of "live stream" of this work in progress. There are a lot of people (i think) who would love to watch Real "Men At Work" rebuilding one of the most beautiful places I've ever been to.

[TheDionysius]

I am from the Erie, Pa area, and I am reading in today’s local paper that a local realtor along with 3EW Homeschool Group and other organizations arranged a Stuff The Truck event Oct 4 and ending tomorrow. It is hoped a semi truck will be filled with the extensive list of non perishable food items, baby and child items, pharmacy and hardware items plus other supplies such as flashlights, lanterns, matches, ropes, tarps. These donations will be hauled to Black Mountain Presbyterian Church and warehouse in Black Mountain, NC and will be distributed throughout the surrounding area.

[mariawells]

Thank you for sharing this with America! Praying for all in the beautiful Carolinas! My grandparents use to live in Flat Rock long ago.

[exoticivy]

You know if every single reporter that went to the area actually brought supplies for the local people that would also help too because there seems to be so many of them. my heart totally breaks for these people

[JasonStar]

5:30 - That's a bad idea. They should allow the new river route to be established and plan the town around that. They will regret trying to move the river in time to come.

[jimgraham]

When mother nature decides to move a river, I am not sure it is wise to put the time, money & effort into putting it back where it was. Accept the new reality and adapt to the current situation. Unfortunately, it will not be 1, 000 years before this happens again...

[Letizia]

Reporter: The river is not supposed to be over here.
River: I am supposed to be where ever I am.

I loved Chimney Rock but there is a lesson here about whether to rebuild on the same spot after a disaster like this.

[ShellyDankert]

I can't believe we're getting a vertical video from an actual newsperson. Why bother?

[gmpick]

God blessed our mountain folk with resilience and courage loyalty and love of country. God bless the people who call Appalachia home.

[robertd]

I appreciate all the videos people are doing so we can understand everything that happened. There is a noticeable difference though when the person is a professional like this woman.

[MyFiddlePlayer]

Putting the creek back where it came from does not sound like a good idea. The creek is going to be where Nature wants it to be, ultimately you can't fight it.

[dianammartinez]

I loved visiting Chimney Rock, is and will be beautiful all over again. With hard work, and everyone'a help we will rebuild our WNC again!

[penney]

You want to show the destruction, don't blur out 2/3 of the video.

[bob-rogers]

People never learn. They're moving the Broad River back to it's original location? So people can rebuild on the same spot that just got erased by the Broad River?

[limited]

Rivers often change course during severe flooding.

[jenluvsplanes]

Luckily we all had regular everyday brave YT content creators showing us Chimney Rock many, many days even during the actual storm. But glad you made it there now.

[DebbieVance-svsv]

Please don't forget NC when other things happen. My son, wife and 2 children live in Lenoir. They can get to the grocery store but the shelves are empty. What do people do now?

[murraysteele]

It's good to see they're doing this. Five days ago they weren't able to get that big equipment up there because the roads are so bad or just gone in places

[massimookissed]

If only phones had a way of recording landscapes.

Someone should invent a name for that mode.