If it wasn't for the videographers like you, the public would think that everything was OK in the area. All the news channels have left the area because they have to move on to the next disaster. I live in Canada, but every day I take the time to watch different videos as I pray for the people who have been affected by hurricane Helene. God will keep them strong.
Nice job with the footage. Just got back from volunteering in Burnsville and I explored a little bit on the southern parts of routes 197 and 226 during down time and saw my share of the destruction. Thanks for documenting this and sharing.
This event needs to stay in the public eye and not be forgotten soon. It has already not being reported by mainstream media as their news cycle has moved on. These people still need our help. Many of them didn't have much to start with but now many have nothing. Keep it in the spotlight!
Thank you for this one. It just blows my mind how much devastation happened in so many places. I wonder how many miles this flood was. I watch many videos abut the flood, I just can’t wrap my head around all of this. There’s a nice man was a geologist & talks about the flood & debris flow & mudslides and how all lol this formed the flood. He shows how it started at the TOP of a mountain with Debris flow. Your videos tie this all together when. You talk about the places of devastation. Kind of makes sense. Thank you to Janice as well. ❤
@@LeslieRobillard Thank you Leslie for your support. It is unbelievable to say the least. Like you, I wonder just how many miles of streams were affected. It has to be hundreds. Every place I go there are many areas that don't get shown. Honestly I could never get to them all. It's kinda pick and choose ya know. I dont wanna leave anyone out but it is just impossible. My question is, where did it stop and how?? I know here the SouthHolston reservoir caught a lot but beyond that I'm not sure. Janice says ur welcome and thank you.
Thank you, Leslie! We watched a couple of those videos also, and had been seeing exactly what he had described play out while driving of these narrow hollows with teeny little trickles that became big creeks. Stay safe!
I think there is a part of WNC and ET that doesn't want people to drive on the already precarious roads we have. I'm torn because I also think it's good to record and for people to see just exactly how bad it was and they will not do it without people doing videos like you guys have done. It's unimaginable how much damage was done until you see if for yourself. As you have said, it will take years to fix all of this, yet some people are complaining about how more hasn't been done. It's just so much!!! I'm glad you did a video for people to see. I live in Avery County NC. It was so bad up here also. Toe River area has some remendous damage. I've read, and I'm sure it's changed, around 500+ bridges washed away and over 2000 landslides and some were huge.
@@carriegarrisonvos4433 I have seen so much, yet so little. There are so many areas people dont even consider. Hundreds if not thousands of tributaries are out there that became rivers in minutes. I am amazed with every new area we go to. It is sad in so many ways but it is eye opening for sure. I for one will never look at these mountains as I use to. Also disaster can strike anywhere anytime.
@@beautifulvirginia9629 Totally agree! I look at things so much more different than I use to before the storm. And just the time it will take to fix things but never back to normal. It's overwhelming!
@@carriegarrisonvos4433 It truly is. I have people asking me about the creeper trail still. It's obvious to me that it is last priority. I am going to look in a couple sections this weekend. Also Rt 58.
It's glad you all keep showing it. It's hard for people to understand a mountain flooding from a hurricane. Were Creeks not even a foot across became raging Rivers. The forest was so great landscaped is changed forever rivers are rerouted mountains are carved out. Just the thought of all this it's hard to understand. But unless you see it in person it's even harder. So please keep showing these so people at least can get adjust of what's going on. This is a historical event. This will take years in the making to recover. Maps will have to be redone nothing will ever be the same. So all of us need to understand in a blink of an eye we could be in the same boat. Places that don't flood can flood. Bless all that have helped and are keep helping. Praying things start to go better for all of that's been affected. There is no way anyone could be prepared for this.
Thanks for your good reporting. Understandably, they do not want tourist lookers, but you document well so that we have a good understanding of the devastation. The water quality in the Toe and Cane rivers will take years to improve. One of the guys that delivers supplies for Operation Mountain Relief says the animals are dying from drinking the water - that it is not unusual for him to pass 10-12 dead deer on his runs. They also report people are having serious skin conditions from contact with the mud and water. Op Mtn Relief provides 'safe camps' for their volunteer workers so they can shower off at the end of the day. Children could never safely play outside on ground that has these toxins in it. What a mess!
I've been working on the railroad. I've been working on the railroad all my life long years. Can't you hear the whistle blowing. Let the railroad come through. It will help part of the economic developement. Government money is needed. TYVM Steven E.
This is historical event. It has happened before and it will happen again. It needs to be documented so that we can learn from it and prepare . Not to see this people do not understand the devastation that is actually happened. Even to see it it is still unimaginable to understand the amount of water and the destruction that it caused. Like you said this is going to be years in the making way past our time. And yes we should not take lightly the whole of these people went through and the devastation and the horror that they are still going through. Please keep showing the devastation so that we do not forget what has happened to these people. The roads the rivers the landscaping has changed forever. Maps will have to be rewritten. Praying at this point we keep helping all that are in need.
At 48:20 that is a fuel can for a race car. A couple of weeks ago there was a place where you could look off of 226 and see the railroad in the middle of the river.
That was my fuel can from motorcycle racing. what didn't get swept down river is pretty .much ruined. If you wanna help my go fund me is in the description
3 weekends ago i drove up to beauty spot off of rock creek in erwin. There were lots of blown over trees on red fork access road within a mile to two from top of beauty spot. So that area and up there off of hwy 107 and ry 226 must have gotten strong straight line winds to take dowm so many trees.
@48:13 as a motorsports fan, that looks like a refueling can for a race car. The side-pipe allows air to the bottom of the can (when inverted) to allow the fuel to flow as fast as it can (no pun intended).
Hurt, hate and after mass.. it’s commendable to US and NC government rebuild while focus on nature and township. From the great Appalachia WV, we are with all you Appalachian’s suffering of any sort but those suffer from Helene, High hopes.
The government and NC state government have done very little to nothing except the roads like the one they've been on. We have over 654 bridges damaged or destroyed. More than 100 that have to be rebuilt. We had at least 6,000 miles of highway that was damaged. More than 7,000 different sites of road damage Thousands of private bridges damaged, which they may not have to replace because topographically the area has completely changed and we have homeowners whose land is now the river. We had over 126,000 homes damaged or destroyed and by the grace of God and the love of our brother and sisters in Christ of volunteers that have brought in their own equipment from their own individual companies from other states or farther down in the state of NC . Ron DeSantis even sent the National Guard from Florida. While his own state had damage in his own state from Hurricane Helene but he stll deployed them faster than our own Governor Roy Cooper . Our own residents and the volunteers who have came in from states as far as WA and we've even had people come in from Canada. They all have done more to put Western NC back together than the government, our Governor and our own state government. This man is in one area, he didn't even touch the tip of the iceberg talking about us complaining about nothing getting done and not liking people coming and being lookiloos who want to come and film our heartache.The work that is being done that he is fiming is by people FEMA hired! If they're in yellow trucks they are from our STATE DOT. Alot of the companies that FEMA hired have now pulled put because of FEMA failing to pay them!! Unless you live here then stop being a keyboard warrior and acting you know everything, because you and him have absolutely no idea! When you come out here and see the wide spread damage and see it for yourself and see we still have our on people who are still living in tents in temperatures that have already gotten down just in the Asheville-Enka Candler area alone to 12 degrees add in the wind chill and it was 3 degrees. Add extra elevation abd think about how much colder it was in the area he is in right now where he is now. This is north of Asheville, see that ice lying on the river think.about how cold it had to get to freeze that ice on the river. Tell you what how about you and your wife and him and his wife come down here and sleep in tents in those temperatures and then explain to us why we shouldn't complain. Especially when FEMA employees have 3 locations and have their nice warm trailers to sleep in and we're sleeping in tents while people are building tiny homes for us but FEMA won't allow us to live in them because they don't meet code, you know why? Because they don't have a bathroom or a kitchen. We could at least sleep in them at night to stay warm and stay in them during the days when it's raining and snowing which we have already had. Our children live in fear now the adults live in fear now if we get a heavy rain. We have people whose homes were three and four football fields away from the flood zone do you nderstand now how high the water was? We have one area in here where the water was 47 feet high. Can you even imagine seeing 47 feet of water much less having their winds we were having at the same time, we were getting over 100 mph? Wrap your head around being in the mountains having 100 mph and flooding. The homes that were high enough that could see the water and watch it come up to your front porch and see peoples body's and horses, cars, entire houses, just roaring by your house and the shaking like your in an earthquake? Wishing you, your family as well as your friends a very Blessed Christmas and a Beautiful and Blessed New Year may it be Prosperous first each of you. God bless each of you always✝️🙏🙏😊🙏.
@ Sounds like spilt milk. We’ve all had disasters abroad, more coming. Move to higher grounds. Get strong, it’s getting worse. Good look and buy flood insurance if you can afford it. Love to all Americans, from sea to shunning sea. Climate warming is real.
Such a shame that someone doesn't bring it a temporary milling operation to harvest the trees that are down on those mountains. Building materials to help with rebuilding.
I saw a snipit somewhere, that the NC corps of engineers has demanded that CSX cease and desist all reconstruction, possibly indefinitely on the clinchfeild railroad. I don't know if that's the particular block in question.
I have been wanting to see some old photos. Particularly from the 40s flood. Think maybe the library may have some old newspaper articles and maybe photos. I am very curious what things looked like back then.
@@iamgabriel5823 definitely a concern. I have seen asplundh in a few places trying to salvage what they can. Of course they probably wont be picking through the washed up stuff along the creek. Hopefully the state will have that stuff cleaned up.
I was in 31:00 minutes. All i see you doing was filming the debris. If k want to see that i can see thousands other videos. But im not seeing hardly no videos of search/recovery. Seems nobofy gives a F about the dead
@@ShawnStaton-im9pb I wouldn't know where to go. Give me an idea and I will gladly try to get there and see what's up for myself. I can only travel so far as I work but I will travel as far as I can.
If it wasn't for the videographers like you, the public would think that everything was OK in the area. All the news channels have left the area because they have to move on to the next disaster. I live in Canada, but every day I take the time to watch different videos as I pray for the people who have been affected by hurricane Helene. God will keep them strong.
@@tstuckey9436 Thanks so much!!
If you want to help, my go fund me is in the description
That's because the news media and the democrats don't want nobody in the world to know what's really going on in north carolina
Nice job with the footage. Just got back from volunteering in Burnsville and I explored a little bit on the southern parts of routes 197 and 226 during down time and saw my share of the destruction. Thanks for documenting this and sharing.
This event needs to stay in the public eye and not be forgotten soon. It has already not being reported by mainstream media as their news cycle has moved on. These people still need our help. Many of them didn't have much to start with but now many have nothing. Keep it in the spotlight!
If you want to help, my go fund me is in the description
well thank you for sharing this because all the news has stopped talking about this.
Thank you for this one. It just blows my mind how much devastation happened in so many places. I wonder how many miles this flood was. I watch many videos abut the flood, I just can’t wrap my head around all of this. There’s a nice man was a geologist & talks about the flood & debris flow & mudslides and how all lol this formed the flood. He shows how it started at the TOP of a mountain with Debris flow. Your videos tie this all together when. You talk about the places of devastation. Kind of makes sense. Thank you to Janice as well. ❤
@@LeslieRobillard Thank you Leslie for your support. It is unbelievable to say the least. Like you, I wonder just how many miles of streams were affected. It has to be hundreds. Every place I go there are many areas that don't get shown. Honestly I could never get to them all. It's kinda pick and choose ya know. I dont wanna leave anyone out but it is just impossible. My question is, where did it stop and how?? I know here the SouthHolston reservoir caught a lot but beyond that I'm not sure. Janice says ur welcome and thank you.
Thank you, Leslie! We watched a couple of those videos also, and had been seeing exactly what he had described play out while driving of these narrow hollows with teeny little trickles that became big creeks. Stay safe!
Thanks for getting out there to show what's going on looks like they are making progress
I think there is a part of WNC and ET that doesn't want people to drive on the already precarious roads we have. I'm torn because I also think it's good to record and for people to see just exactly how bad it was and they will not do it without people doing videos like you guys have done. It's unimaginable how much damage was done until you see if for yourself. As you have said, it will take years to fix all of this, yet some people are complaining about how more hasn't been done. It's just so much!!! I'm glad you did a video for people to see. I live in Avery County NC. It was so bad up here also. Toe River area has some remendous damage. I've read, and I'm sure it's changed, around 500+ bridges washed away and over 2000 landslides and some were huge.
@@carriegarrisonvos4433 I have seen so much, yet so little. There are so many areas people dont even consider. Hundreds if not thousands of tributaries are out there that became rivers in minutes. I am amazed with every new area we go to. It is sad in so many ways but it is eye opening for sure. I for one will never look at these mountains as I use to. Also disaster can strike anywhere anytime.
@@beautifulvirginia9629 Totally agree! I look at things so much more different than I use to before the storm. And just the time it will take to fix things but never back to normal. It's overwhelming!
@@carriegarrisonvos4433 It truly is. I have people asking me about the creeper trail still. It's obvious to me that it is last priority. I am going to look in a couple sections this weekend. Also Rt 58.
Thank you for your excellent documentation. Continuing ❤ &🙏🏻from UK. Never forget Helene. 😢💔
If you want to help, my go fund me is in the description. I lived in London in the 80's. I lost a 1923 BSA with sidecar in this flood
It's glad you all keep showing it. It's hard for people to understand a mountain flooding from a hurricane. Were Creeks not even a foot across became raging Rivers. The forest was so great landscaped is changed forever rivers are rerouted mountains are carved out. Just the thought of all this it's hard to understand. But unless you see it in person it's even harder. So please keep showing these so people at least can get adjust of what's going on. This is a historical event. This will take years in the making to recover. Maps will have to be redone nothing will ever be the same. So all of us need to understand in a blink of an eye we could be in the same boat. Places that don't flood can flood. Bless all that have helped and are keep helping. Praying things start to go better for all of that's been affected. There is no way anyone could be prepared for this.
If you want to help, my go fund me is in the description
Thanks for your good reporting. Understandably, they do not want tourist lookers, but you document well so that we have a good understanding of the devastation. The water quality in the Toe and Cane rivers will take years to improve. One of the guys that delivers supplies for Operation Mountain Relief says the animals are dying from drinking the water - that it is not unusual for him to pass 10-12 dead deer on his runs. They also report people are having serious skin conditions from contact with the mud and water. Op Mtn Relief provides 'safe camps' for their volunteer workers so they can shower off at the end of the day. Children could never safely play outside on ground that has these toxins in it. What a mess!
If you want to help, my go fund me is in the description
That was a big fueling cannister for a race car you filmed at 48:35 mark uinthis video.
That was my fuel can used in motorcycle racing. If you want to help .y go fund me is in the description
I've been working on the railroad. I've been working on the railroad all my life long years. Can't you hear the whistle blowing. Let the railroad come through. It will help part of the economic developement. Government money is needed. TYVM Steven E.
This is historical event. It has happened before and it will happen again. It needs to be documented so that we can learn from it and prepare . Not to see this people do not understand the devastation that is actually happened. Even to see it it is still unimaginable to understand the amount of water and the destruction that it caused. Like you said this is going to be years in the making way past our time. And yes we should not take lightly the whole of these people went through and the devastation and the horror that they are still going through. Please keep showing the devastation so that we do not forget what has happened to these people. The roads the rivers the landscaping has changed forever. Maps will have to be rewritten. Praying at this point we keep helping all that are in need.
At 48:20 that is a fuel can for a race car. A couple of weeks ago there was a place where you could look off of 226 and see the railroad in the middle of the river.
That was my fuel can from motorcycle racing. what didn't get swept down river is pretty .much ruined. If you wanna help my go fund me is in the description
3 weekends ago i drove up to beauty spot off of rock creek in erwin. There were lots of blown over trees on red fork access road within a mile to two from top of beauty spot. So that area and up there off of hwy 107 and ry 226 must have gotten strong straight line winds to take dowm so many trees.
an act of God.
water hydraulics are amazing when uncontrollably.
every bend has gold.
a couple died hypothermia tent camping Relief, N.C. Very sad. Condolences, family, relatives, friends.
Soo sad
@48:13 as a motorsports fan, that looks like a refueling can for a race car. The side-pipe allows air to the bottom of the can (when inverted) to allow the fuel to flow as fast as it can (no pun intended).
That was my race.can.for.motorcy le racing. It was originally from a famous race team. If you want to help, my go fund me is in the description.
What's sad is all that hay is lost because once it gets wet, it starts to mold, and you can't feed molded hay to your animals.
It appears to be colder down there than it is up here in Ohio judging by the ice.
@@BAtadCrazy It was right near freezing but had been very cold. Around 20 degree I believe.
It has actually been in the teens .
Hurt, hate and after mass.. it’s commendable to US and NC government rebuild while focus on nature and township. From the great Appalachia WV, we are with all you Appalachian’s suffering of any sort but those suffer from Helene, High hopes.
The government and NC state government have done very little to nothing except the roads like the one they've been on. We have over 654 bridges damaged or destroyed. More than 100 that have to be rebuilt. We had at least 6,000 miles of highway that was damaged. More than 7,000 different sites of road damage Thousands of private bridges damaged, which they may not have to replace because topographically the area has completely changed and we have homeowners whose land is now the river. We had over 126,000 homes damaged or destroyed
and by the grace of God and the love of our brother and sisters in Christ of volunteers that have brought in their own equipment from their own individual companies from other states or farther down in the state of NC .
Ron DeSantis even sent the National Guard from Florida. While his own state had damage in his own state from Hurricane Helene but he stll deployed them faster than our own Governor Roy Cooper .
Our own residents and the volunteers who have came in from states as far as WA and we've even had people come in from Canada. They all have done more to put Western NC back together than the government, our Governor and our own state government.
This man is in one area, he didn't even touch the tip of the iceberg talking about us complaining about nothing getting done and not liking people coming and being lookiloos who want to come and film our heartache.The work that is being done that he is fiming is by people FEMA hired! If they're in yellow trucks they are from our STATE DOT. Alot of the companies that FEMA hired have now pulled put because of FEMA failing to pay them!!
Unless you live here then stop being a keyboard warrior and acting you know everything, because you and him have absolutely no idea!
When you come out here and see the wide spread damage and see it for yourself and see we still have our on people who are still living in tents in temperatures that have already gotten down just in the Asheville-Enka Candler area alone to 12 degrees add in the wind chill and it was 3 degrees. Add extra elevation abd think about how much colder it was in the area he is in right now where he is now. This is north of Asheville, see that ice lying on the river think.about how cold it had to get to freeze that ice on the river. Tell you what how about you and your wife and him and his wife come down here and sleep in tents in those temperatures and then explain to us why we shouldn't complain.
Especially when FEMA employees have 3 locations and have their nice warm trailers to sleep in and we're sleeping in tents while people are building tiny homes for us but FEMA won't allow us to live in them because they don't meet code, you know why? Because they don't have a bathroom or a kitchen.
We could at least sleep in them at night to stay warm
and stay in them during the days when it's raining and snowing which we have already had.
Our children live in fear now the adults live in fear now if we get a heavy rain.
We have people whose homes were three and four football fields away from the flood zone do you nderstand now how high the water was? We have one area in here where the water was 47 feet high. Can you even imagine seeing 47 feet of water much less having their winds we were having at the same time, we were getting over 100 mph? Wrap your head around being in the mountains having 100 mph and flooding. The homes that were high enough that could see the water and watch it come up to your front porch and see peoples body's and horses, cars, entire houses, just roaring by your house and the shaking like your in an earthquake?
Wishing you, your family as well as your friends a very Blessed Christmas and a Beautiful and Blessed New Year may it be Prosperous first each of you.
God bless each of you always✝️🙏🙏😊🙏.
@ Sounds like spilt milk. We’ve all had disasters abroad, more coming. Move to higher grounds. Get strong, it’s getting worse. Good look and buy flood insurance if you can afford it.
Love to all Americans, from sea to shunning sea. Climate warming is real.
Lived N.C. mountains. Surveryors are really needed.
Such a shame that someone doesn't bring it a temporary milling operation to harvest the trees that are down on those mountains. Building materials to help with rebuilding.
@@tamarasmith3624 would definitely be a great resource to have.
I saw a snipit somewhere, that the NC corps of engineers has demanded that CSX cease and desist all reconstruction, possibly indefinitely on the clinchfeild railroad. I don't know if that's the particular block in question.
This is an historic event. It must be documented for posterity. Where are the photos from 1916? Do they exist?
I have been wanting to see some old photos. Particularly from the 40s flood. Think maybe the library may have some old newspaper articles and maybe photos. I am very curious what things looked like back then.
Yes😊 there's photos even of the 1906 flood it just takes a little time on the internet and patience.
@Leigh-cz8wh patience is not my strong suit, nor is computer literacy. Haha. I will have Janice help me look. Thanks so much!!
With so many downed trees I wonder if there will be wildfire concerns this summer?
@@iamgabriel5823 definitely a concern. I have seen asplundh in a few places trying to salvage what they can. Of course they probably wont be picking through the washed up stuff along the creek. Hopefully the state will have that stuff cleaned up.
I was in 31:00 minutes. All i see you doing was filming the debris. If k want to see that i can see thousands other videos. But im not seeing hardly no videos of search/recovery. Seems nobofy gives a F about the dead
@@ShawnStaton-im9pb I wouldn't know where to go. Give me an idea and I will gladly try to get there and see what's up for myself. I can only travel so far as I work but I will travel as far as I can.
good Job but they are Phone lines NOT Power lines
@@RussellKoch Nice. Thanks for the heads up bud.
Actually phone and power lines
well if you take a sawmill to all those trees you should be able to rebuild everything that was lost.
@@michealklonowski5267 Certainly looks that way
I HOPE THAT YOU AND OTHERS HAVE THE TREE RIGHTS AND THEY CAN HAVE THE LOGGERS COME IN AND CLEAN UP WHAT HAS HIT THE GROUND??
& LOTS OF MISSING PEOPLE TOO
I trulh
I wonder if insurance covers dam falier?
PLUS BETWEEN THE HURRICANE & THE PEOPLE WHO RAN THE DAM & WHY THEY OPENED UP THE DAM WHEN THEY DID !?
Why hasn't the president declared NC to be a national disaster?
Because he don't give $hits about N.C he more worried about sending Africa & Ukraine billions of dollars
Obviously, his lack of concern nor does he or any in his administration seem to care about N.C. or any state in the union for that matter.
@@robinbird5249 I honestly don't know. There is more damage across these states then I could ever show in a thousand videos.
It was declared a disaster area by Biden within a couple of days after the event.
😢 AND THEN WHEN THE MOUNTAINS THAT JUST FLOWED DOWN WAS HORRIBLE ! THEN THE MULTI SCAMMERS THAT IS OUT IN FULL FORCE TOO
I would not agree that finding a cool rock after
this disaster is a good thing. considering all the deaths and disasters.
😮 THERE'S VIDEOS OUT SAYING THAT THEY ARE STILL FINDING DEAD PEOPLE & ANIMALS IN THE RIVER!? IDK ??
😮A TYPE OF PERMAFROST?