What made Hurricane Helene so destructive in North Carolina?

Hurricane Helene caused unprecedented devastation in Western North Carolina, with 40 trillion gallons of rain making it one of the heaviest rainfall events in the state's history. Asheville experienced severe flash floods due to its varied topography, and the cleanup costs could total around $50 billion. Learn more from area experts who highlight the importance of monitoring trends and historical records to better understand future storm risk.

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Producer/Editor: Evan Howell
Videography: Ish Abdelkhalek
Special Thanks: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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[cordellwalker-wnnq]

Absolutely insane how we dont hear anything about these victims or the cleanup efforts anymore

[mamasmurf]

It’s so utterly depressing. I have to leave. I’ve never considered leaving home before, but everything I loved here is destroyed. There’s no coming back from this. 😭

[scooterrockets]

On October 13th, 1976, the 94th Congress passed Law 490 which sets forth a mandate "to develop a national policy on weather modification, and for other purposes." In Paragraph (b) Line 3 it states clearly: "to develop practical methods and devices for weather modification." There can be no scientific discussion on so-called "climate change" without analyzing the 200+ patents on weather modification and ongoing programs well underway throughout the world using active weather modification.

[glennkantz]

Incredible footage- captures the devastation. Thanks also for providing the research

[patriciatyree]

Opening the dams ended up catastrophic to the area why did this happen. More accountable people need to be held accountable

[hubertthomashager]

No body raises crops in a forests no body tills the hill sides or rivers or creeks damn some people just dont know

[LilyWillow]

and what's interesting is when it made landfall in Perry Florida the eye had fallen apart the second half of the eye collapsed on itself so it's interesting it rebuilt an eye overland😮

[samuelfink]

What explains the flood of 1916 then which hit much of the same area?

[PlantRelated]

We need better agriculture practices like no till and regenerative indigenous farming

[regeniawilliams]

Some people are talking about a dam getting released caused it, idk what to believe any more.I do know i hope i dont have to go thru this again.Im still shaking when it starts raining or the wind blows.

[EricChurchwell-blce]

I like how we think we actually know anything about what nature is capable of just because we have recorded events for a few hundred years. Our prefrontal cortext does not mean we are omnipotent or separate from the universe.

[Mandoslicer]

I know how you feel Carl. Abigale does too. It’s heartbreaking. Love to =each and all.

[Unsolicitedbias]

Even now in Middle November, the Hurricane Rafael in the Gulf is doing exactly that. It's acting like a huge AC unit, lifting hot water into the air and then that rainfall that is happening all around the center of the storm is falling back from thousands of feet up in the sky. That is like your Air Handler in your house air conditioner.

The need now is for us to PUT LESS and LESS heat into the system that is heating the oceans and the gulf. The Heat we add by using our cars excessively is being transferred into the air and into the oceans. The systems like the AMOC are trying very hard to cool the waters, but we are continuing to add heat while the Repositories of Cold, the Glaciers of Greenland, the Artic Ocean Surface Ice, Antarctica's Glaciers and those in the Himalaya's and various high mountains in Alaska, Rockies, and European mountain ranges are being depleted and turned into liquid water.

So GREAT, there will be no shortage of liquid water for us to try to capture and purify and drink. But there will be less ICE in the cold regions to buffer the Heat Transfer mechanism.

We should not convert any more Glacial Ice into liquid water. We should try to recover some of that ice over then next 100 years, and the sooner the better.

Ok?

[midzpodcast]

Referring to the erosion and flooding events in North Carolina - they were caused due to the destabilization of fluvial soil structure due to all the quartz silica mining that dumped sand into the river over time. Destabilization is due to the increase of soil porosity (sand is bigger than clay and organic matter), so the increased porosity allows clay and organic matter to be washed away over time. So a flood happens and the soil goes bye bye gets a massive erosion event that killed hundreds. All due to mining. Xoxoxo

[amykatherine]

Solid carbon dioxide and silver iodide.

[sharonhiatt]

What’s happening with the lithium & crystal mines? Has the government claimed imminent domain yet? Southern California is being burnt, yet anything blue is left untouched. Praying for all to have eyes to see and ears to hear and a sincere want to know the Truth🙏🏻❤️

[judyhill]

The song was done for the recuers of the flooding

[denisekaiser]

Weather modification. Geoengineering. Thats what. Done on purpose. Lord get us off this matrix

[helensteen]

Wundermap interactive weather site has wiped rainfall data for Spain (Valencia) sometime during the week and Visual Crossing another interactive weather site has 'normalised' rainfall data. All the other metrics like wind speed, pressure remain.

[rdbjrseattle]

“The Creek don’t rise” refers to the Creek Indians; not a body of water.