House floats away, collapses as Helene leaves North Carolina under water

[David-]

Damn someone's life floated away and sunk😢

[lorileo]

Here I am worried about not having water, these poor people. This is horrible!

[Incredible]

I am Watching from CA. I couldn’t sleep properly after seeing so much damage all of a sudden. My friends live there and have not been able to contact them. I hope they are ok. Prayers for everyone ❤️.

[LetThePumpkinsFLY]

Prayers for all who have lost their homes. May the Lord bring them consolation.

[PleaseLoveOneAnother]

There have been 3 major flooding storms since 2004. They continue to build back in the same places that have flooded before. I am curious how they can get insurance at this point. Pisgah Football stadium is under water again. The mobile homes near the railroad tracks in Clyde have had catastrophic damage before. Swannanoa River Road, Biltmore Village. Canton Fire Dept and Town Hall. It’s no longer a 100 year storm folks. Time to move to higher ground. Stay safe.

[laylow]

Lord, bless all of those affected by this

[CBBC]

There are reasons that many places in Asheville hadn't been built upon. So many newcomers to Asheville and many built in the wrong places, not realizing the history that the local people knew. That area of Tunnel Road by Porter Cove Road... That area was simply not built on for decades because of its history. So now we see a relatively new house washing down Swanannoa River with the flood there. I watched development go on with quite a lot of amazement, after land had been left idle for decades and decades. There's a reason people didn't bother with it.
If you look closely you can see the scars of the past on the land. You can see where a peak water level had once been decades and even a hundred years ago. I'm not surprised that the Rocky Broad is also flooding again, yet so much big (new) money had built around it. Locals wouldn't build there, but the newcomers would because they don't know what the kocals know.

[hukedonfonix]

Wow, I've lived on the Southeastern coast of N.C and been through A LOT of named storms, we've been flooded out pretty big, considering we're wedged between the beach and the river mouth but that's insane. When it hits the Cape Fear River it'll probably reflood our tropical storm caused last week. Real N.C local here, be safe and best of luck to yall in the mountains

[cap]

In the aftermath of Helene, benefit from my misfortune and do not compound your problems: beware of an outfit called “Samaritan’s Purse’. These people showed up in my neighborhood in NJ after Superstorm Sandy offering to help. I was away at the time and my wife let them in. The end result was over $10, 000 in property stolen over a couple day period. SP disclaimed any liability and said they really didn’t do any background on their volunteers and didn’t even have records of who they were. So proceed accordingly.

[WildWildWestTaurus]

Native of NC & so many current & past memories of all these Western Mtn locations.. This is breaking my heart ❤😢

[Moondoggy]

If you want to help a charity that gives the proceeds to the people helping and the water they provide, watch the YouTube video about the Cajun Navy. these people go around with their trucks boat trailer and boat and go around and get people out and there pets.

[usmcmsgt]

I'm in NC and I'm so glad we didn't have any flooding here on the East Coast.

[Heisablessing]

This is so awful. Did the people get out?

[BrandyMoody-fu]

Prayers for everyone involved 🙏 ❤️ ♥️ 💙 💗 💛 🙏

[divinediva]

The Biltmore area is requesting power and prayers!!!!

[juditrelease]

I’m praying for you
Please be safe as you can be

When you build Bridges and bottleneck old riverbeds, this is the result. Hopefully they will learn to widen overpasses and bridges or put large culverts in the old riverbeds to allow for the river to expand.

[radanju]

Asheville, out of anything. That's a horrible way to go for something that's not typical.

[conniestahl]

Iam still trying to contact my family they live in black mountains nc and Asheville

[carolpeffer]

Very sad. Lord please watch over all the people and animals. 🙏😢