With a storm this size, it’s crazy to talk “direct paths”. Just because what was the eye doesn’t pass over you does NOT mean you miss the path of a stork like this. I’m a 4the generation Floridian who moved to NC 15 yrs ago to escape the craziness that had taken over what was my heritage. I’ve been through over a dozen hurricanes, even Cat 5 Andrew and Cat 4 Charley and what we have in NC is just as bad.
NC always seems to get hit with any and every storm! From ice storms to hurricanes and more!! That’s why I would never move there, well never say never, and if the eye passed over you, you wouldn’t get as much damage. It’s the outer bands that are nasty. There is more to these storms than people know and it will be apparent soon!!
I remember Charley , after the storm past their was almost an instant calm and silence . I got up from a crouch in the middle of the house . I opened the front door and all I could hear was "crying" throughout the whole neighbor hood . It was very bad.
@BajaGirl302 i live in nc but close to the va border eastern and thankfully we did not get it bad but our neighboring counties unfortunately didn't get so lucky
The eye went straight over Knoxville! I was watching the radar periodically. It was wild! People in Florida saying “this happens all the time” well it doesn’t happen in the mountains!! Yes, pigeon forge/gatlinburg floods with just simple downpours of rain and mountain runoff. But the immense, widespread, over max capacity flooding of dams has never been seen here. Flooding was very common before the dams were built, but in their 70 years they’ve been built where I live, this has never happened. Not once. This was a massive hurricane. Its bands reached to Virginia for days before it made landfall and already began to bring rivers to flood levels.
We were there all week, staying at the DreamMore, and left today. Luckily we are back in Nashville area safely. Prayers for all suffering from this storm.
I never wish harm to anyone but maybe Helene will wash the corrupt mayors fancy $4 million dollar plus RV campground away or at least wash the corruption out of it so I have a nice place to stay should I ever decide to come back again
My brother did that in Boone about a year ago and he was swept away in his jeep thank God he was able to get out and he is a strong swimmer. He found his jeep down river. Wild
Been to Pigeon Forge and can't believe the amount of flood water from Helene. Prayed for everyone that would be impacted by this hurricane. Praying for ev everyone's recovery.
My family vacationed in Pigeon Forge this past spring at the Condo resort shown in this video. I pray for a quick recovery to the area and the affected people. Sending love from Wisconsin!
Dollywood this morning told me we are open today this morning. I was like "Uhhhhh, my 2003 Honda Civic isn't a boat and schools are out. I gotta watch over someone." Like dude, I aint going into work if my work is flooded.
Who did they think was gunna be like "man this seems like the PERFECT day to go and see Dollywood" and then wanted you to come in?! Capitalists don't pay employees the kinda money to get us out into flood waters for a shift 🤣
Yep the hurricane was a bad one here in the north GA mountains ww still have no power and a lot of trees down and flooding hope y'all are find and everything is great in your area God Bless y'all and thank you for another great video 🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
My family is down there now. They are staying at that resort, Wolf something or other. They were able to get out today and GLB seemed ok. They did shelter in place the last 2 days. I told them about your video yesterday. Thank you for the continued updates. Off to Everything Auto to see what's happening over there. Hope you all are doing ok!
My wife and I rented a cabin in Sevierville when we were on vacation to the Smokies. Left approx 1 week ago. Weather was nice at that time. Missed all the water...
I saw film of working elephants break their leg chains to go to higher ground when the Indonesian Tsunamis were coming. I'm hoping many of the animals in these areas also knew what was coming and ran to higher ground. 🙏
Dam failures in NC--2. One dam failure (catastrophic failure) in Newport, TN. Newport mayor & TEMA arguing over it. It's because Duke Energy does not want to be liable for damages. All about money, not people.
I'm from Biloxi Ms and believe me after Katrina....I know devastation. Praying for all. Thank you for this update! We love you guys! Be careful. Would you happened to have an update if the Biltmore Estate had any flooding? -Thanks
I know when they were talking about it a couple of days before the storm , they said 100+mph winds up in Tennessee!! I didn’t believe it!! But I was wrong!! So sad for all of the folks in Tennessee! Praying for them!!! Also in Georgia and Florida! But Tennessee! They weren’t prepared for any of that craziness!! God be with them all!!!
Are saying up here is water over road turn around don't drown but people don't listen a family drove through water over road and got sweeped in ditch and drowned got car out next day and recover bodies kids involved heart breaking story prayers out to everyone going through this god bless you all 5:00
I've lived in Middle Tennessee my entire life; I have been to the Smokies exactly twice- a weekend in 1978, and a horrific visit in 2005 when I only stayed in Gatlinburg for 6 hours before driving all night back home! I've never had any desire to visit again.
We had reservations to camp in the Smokies this week and next. Having camped in the Smokies for 30 years and being caught twice in weather like this, we decided to cancel this year's trip.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should,,,,,,, unless absolutely necessary, as in emergency. Down the road he's gonna have truck issues and probably won't know why.
I use to go to Pigeon Forge quite often, when I lived in Morganton NC I always remember with fondest memories, the People! GOD BLESS THEM, AND PROTECT THEM!
Lots of stupid people out there driving through flooded roads. You wanna put your own life at risk, but what about the people that have to come save you? Or your loved ones who have to bury you?
@@Plutogalaxy Totally different! Many people have ruined their engines by going through high water! Any honest mechanic will tell you that! But the young people of today don’t know anything! And are all about showing off! And often people have lost their lives over it. There’s nothing dangerous about going through a car wash. No comparison at all. That’s ridiculous.
Thank goodness Helene has checked out! She did water, prune, wash, dry and fluff all the trees for their fall color show! Doug the duck didn't get to travel far before getting hung up tho, did you let him continue to the Gulf of Mexico?😀
That is just crazy that we were there in Waldens creek and wears valley road ,,, we left on wednesday and the rain started on tuesday evening... so glad we left and headed back to OHIO, where we had a lot of power outages trees down and flooding here as well.... prayers for all the people that lost their lives and homes business , etc... we made a donation to the flood/ hurricane victims and prayers for all that are in need... God Bless you and your family for what you do for us to let us know what is going on...
HEY ... 4:55 I stayed on Nicoha Blvd about 10 yrs ago and stopped at that Marathon gas station to fuel up a few times. We were there for a week vacation.
I wish you had went a little further down Walden’s creek to little river rd. We camp at up the creek camp. It’s surrounded by both creeks. It backs up to that property with the white picket fence down the short cut to 321.
I'm over it Otto NC and we went 5 days with out cellphone and internet service we got cellphone service back here day before yesterday and we got internet back this morning about 5am
I live in Arizona. We get major flooding during monsoon. Arizona has a Stupid Motorist Law, the cost of those services can be billed to the motorist, plus additional liability of up to $2,000.
To our neighbors in beautiful Pigeon Forge - we’re sending prayers up for you all 🙏 Please be safe! Sending hugs from Georgia!
It's just some rain, calm Piggly Wiggly!
@KellyStoner-zb4hn tell that to the people who died
@@allen123636 MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. SOME PEOPLE HAVE NO HEART I GUESS...PRAYING FOR THESE PEOPLE...
TOO LATE. GOD HAS SPOKEN.
Praying for all
With a storm this size, it’s crazy to talk “direct paths”. Just because what was the eye doesn’t pass over you does NOT mean you miss the path of a stork like this. I’m a 4the generation Floridian who moved to NC 15 yrs ago to escape the craziness that had taken over what was my heritage. I’ve been through over a dozen hurricanes, even Cat 5 Andrew and Cat 4 Charley and what we have in NC is just as bad.
Climate chaos
NC always seems to get hit with any and every storm! From ice storms to hurricanes and more!! That’s why I would never move there, well never say never, and if the eye passed over you, you wouldn’t get as much damage. It’s the outer bands that are nasty. There is more to these storms than people know and it will be apparent soon!!
I remember Charley , after the storm past their was almost an instant calm and silence . I got up from a crouch in the middle of the house . I opened the front door and all I could hear was "crying" throughout the whole neighbor hood . It was very bad.
@BajaGirl302 i live in nc but close to the va border eastern and thankfully we did not get it bad but our neighboring counties unfortunately didn't get so lucky
The eye went straight over Knoxville! I was watching the radar periodically. It was wild! People in Florida saying “this happens all the time” well it doesn’t happen in the mountains!! Yes, pigeon forge/gatlinburg floods with just simple downpours of rain and mountain runoff. But the immense, widespread, over max capacity flooding of dams has never been seen here. Flooding was very common before the dams were built, but in their 70 years they’ve been built where I live, this has never happened. Not once. This was a massive hurricane. Its bands reached to Virginia for days before it made landfall and already began to bring rivers to flood levels.
We were there all week, staying at the DreamMore, and left today. Luckily we are back in Nashville area safely. Prayers for all suffering from this storm.
That guy in that truck is crazy. Thank you for letting us know what’s going on there.
Big tires can float easier than narrow.
Who are you to decide what another person should do, mind your own business..!!!
Big tires and going slow.
60% of the time, it works every time!
I remember the Amphicar was somewhat popular in the Detroit suburbs where I grew up in the sixties.
Don't ever underestimate the power of moving water! Even just a few inches can cause your tires lose contact with the road!
Lifted truck bro at the beginning is so, so lucky
Yeah he's lucky there was a road still underneath the flooded waters🇺🇸👍✌️@@LibraryAce
I never wish harm to anyone but maybe Helene will wash the corrupt mayors fancy $4 million dollar plus RV campground away or at least wash the corruption out of it so I have a nice place to stay should I ever decide to come back again
My brother did that in Boone about a year ago and he was swept away in his jeep thank God he was able to get out and he is a strong swimmer. He found his jeep down river. Wild
Insane! We're getting heavy rain here in MIddle TN area. The winds have picked up a bit, but nothing major.
look at unicoi county / erwin tn. Even here in cocke our downtown got flooded but ashville nc is really bad from what I heard.
Been to Pigeon Forge and can't believe the amount of flood water from Helene. Prayed for everyone that would be impacted by this hurricane. Praying for ev everyone's recovery.
We will definitely be praying for everyone 🙏🙏🙏
That guy has waited a long time to do that
All his life lololol
yeye
You know it !!
Never fool with Mother Nature. Be safe everyone.
My family vacationed in Pigeon Forge this past spring at the Condo resort shown in this video. I pray for a quick recovery to the area and the affected people. Sending love from Wisconsin!
Dollywood this morning told me we are open today this morning. I was like "Uhhhhh, my 2003 Honda Civic isn't a boat and schools are out. I gotta watch over someone." Like dude, I aint going into work if my work is flooded.
No work for me.
Who did they think was gunna be like "man this seems like the PERFECT day to go and see Dollywood" and then wanted you to come in?! Capitalists don't pay employees the kinda money to get us out into flood waters for a shift 🤣
Hey it's a great day to spend at a water park
That makes me sad for Dollywood employees.😢 they were expected to come to work?!
@@f1nch1312 I wish you people would learn a single thing about economics
We all need to be aware , informed, knowledgeable, about how nature impacts ours life.
Amen to that!
WOW THIS IS CRAZY!!! Just letting you all know you are in my prayers. 🙏❤
Yep the hurricane was a bad one here in the north GA mountains ww still have no power and a lot of trees down and flooding hope y'all are find and everything is great in your area God Bless y'all and thank you for another great video 🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Buddy--Hope you get power back soon. It's awful in the heat & humidity!
@@Nicky-b8o thanks my friend
I live in the western side of panhandle of FL, we got very little rain here. This video is crazy.
Yes so many states , with a hurricane, but tropical storm ..inland hurricane
My family is down there now. They are staying at that resort, Wolf something or other. They were able to get out today and GLB seemed ok. They did shelter in place the last 2 days. I told them about your video yesterday. Thank you for the continued updates. Off to Everything Auto to see what's happening over there. Hope you all are doing ok!
We just left Asheville on Tuesday with all of our kids on a family vacation.. If we stayed a couple more days we would have been stuck.
Dam failures in NC--2. One dam failure (catastrophic failure) in Newport, TN.
I don’t blame you. I’d want to get out of that lib area too.
My wife and I rented a cabin in Sevierville when we were on vacation to the Smokies. Left approx 1 week ago. Weather was nice at that time. Missed all the water...
did you know there was a hurricane on it's way?
Super Raging River, new at Dollywood.
Eric and Brittany, prayers for everyone affected by the flooding.
I feel so bad for the animals cause sadly so many of them were killed
I saw film of working elephants break their leg chains to go to higher ground when the Indonesian Tsunamis were coming. I'm hoping many of the animals in these areas also knew what was coming and ran to higher ground. 🙏
Heard they are evacuating Newport Tennessee. Probable Dam failure in North Carolina.
Yep that's the word on the street
Failure does not mean breech or collapse.
Yes
Dam failures in NC--2. One dam failure (catastrophic failure) in Newport, TN. Newport mayor & TEMA arguing over it. It's because Duke Energy does not want to be liable for damages. All about money, not people.
@@johnharris6655look it up
Getting swamped in your vehicle is Not Fun! I’ve experienced it and believe me it’s not worth the gamble 😢
Prayers for everyone that got that kind of flooding. And everyone in the path from Florida on up.
Ridiculous to take a risk like that!
Yes, be smart. Turn around. Don't drown. But then it's males doing this. Not a lick of sense.
@@Nicky-b8o amen Girl!!
@@susanlain4427 You two should muff grind and talk about women power afterwards 😅
@@timg6176 mind your own business
I'm from Biloxi Ms and believe me after Katrina....I know devastation. Praying for all. Thank you for this update! We love you guys! Be careful. Would you happened to have an update if the Biltmore Estate had any flooding? -Thanks
The house itself was basically undamaged. The entrance way to the place was kinda destroyed and the rest of it is totally underwater.
@@AnniePA1960 Thanks for the update
I’m in Charlotte NC area. We absolutely were not prepared for what hit us. Weather people NEVER get it right.
I know when they were talking about it a couple of days before the storm , they said 100+mph winds up in Tennessee!! I didn’t believe it!! But I was wrong!! So sad for all of the folks in Tennessee! Praying for them!!! Also in Georgia and Florida! But Tennessee! They weren’t prepared for any of that craziness!! God be with them all!!!
@@dianapearson1771 in North Carolina and probably other places
Blows my mind. We just vacationed there last week. Prayers!
Hope uyou had a nice vacation in TN. I live in the mountains & retired, so every day is a Smokies Mts. vacation.
I'm going there in 3 weeks.
Very nice 👍 work documenting the flooding in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Destructive yet beautiful.
“BOYS LOOK!!! WE FINALLY HAVE A REASON FOR THE YUGE TRUCKS! LETS GO!”
I was thinking that lol it is their time to shine lol
Hard to0 believe people drive across high water on roads
This is America, shouldn't be hard to believe
Some people do it on purpose to try and claim the loss.
Who are you to decide what another person should do, mind your own business..!!!
@@patwelch8187look whose talking
🙏🙏🙏 for all the victims and their families
Sad for victims.
Thank you so much for the personal view of your town. So devastating. So nice to see the wildlife. Hope and prayers for each day for those impacted.
Are saying up here is water over road turn around don't drown but people don't listen a family drove through water over road and got sweeped in ditch and drowned got car out next day and recover bodies kids involved heart breaking story prayers out to everyone going through this god bless you all 5:00
My aunt lives in Newton NC. She said lots of rain
He s lucky he didn’t need rescue
Oh noooo my heart goes out
I've lived in Middle Tennessee my entire life; I have been to the Smokies exactly twice- a weekend in 1978, and a horrific visit in 2005 when I only stayed in Gatlinburg for 6 hours before driving all night back home! I've never had any desire to visit again.
Sorry for you!!!
I went through this in Virginia in a dome tent. What a brutal two days.
hiking the AT?
Bless your heart!
We had reservations to camp in the Smokies this week and next. Having camped in the Smokies for 30 years and being caught twice in weather like this, we decided to cancel this year's trip.
This has been one devastating storm. Prayers for those who have been affected. Thank you and have a blessed week.
Great coverage, fam. 🐐
Such a pictures place, even beautiful with all the added water.
Praying 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
That is soooooo stupid to drive through that water!!!!!
Just because you can doesn't mean you should,,,,,,, unless absolutely necessary, as in emergency. Down the road he's gonna have truck issues and probably won't know why.
Yikes! Thanks for the Pictures. Hope you all weathered this storm with not too many troubles.
Thanks for the video!
Pigeon Forge isn't underwater, There are People Suffering in Newport and Unicoi , Erwin and In N.C. and Dollywood Opens,How Heartless
I use to go to Pigeon Forge quite often, when I lived in Morganton NC I always remember with fondest memories, the People! GOD BLESS THEM, AND PROTECT THEM!
Prayers 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Just a good ole boys going thru that 💧 water.
No respect for people's houses !
That water is going to flow down and flow down until it cant anymore then will start to FILL UP at the bottom.
Great video. Thanks. Take care.
Hope you are safe Rich & Jen
Lots of stupid people out there driving through flooded roads. You wanna put your own life at risk, but what about the people that have to come save you? Or your loved ones who have to bury you?
The fact that there are so many people that think what he did is dangerous, are the stupid ones.
Protecting their property rather than leaving.
Turn around don't drown.
They too dumb.
@@Plutogalaxy Totally different! Many people have ruined their engines by going through high water! Any honest mechanic will tell you that! But the young people of today don’t know anything! And are all about showing off! And often people have lost their lives over it. There’s nothing dangerous about going through a car wash. No comparison at all. That’s ridiculous.
No matter how many times that’s been said some idiots will still drive through it.
Good video you all stay safe ❤
GOSH.... Have been in this area...sorry you guys have also been effected. Susan
Watching someone drive through water like that gives me anxiety!! 😮
Ride in that deep water..see what happens to your drive train and frame in a month
good point
No worries, the lift kit was worth more than the truck itself. He’ll finance another 3k truck for $10,000
@@DinduMuffins good point
Thank you best update I found.
Prayers for all involved
Why are people driving in the flood!?? Omg
Big boys just want to have fun! Rednecks rules.
@@AuroraOctaneJ61284 what the FK are you talking about??? Are you high?
Lots of really stupid peoples out there.
The water is so swift.
That’s the cool place that everybody loves! I hope they make it OK 🙏
Prayers up from Chattanooga
This is epic proportions of flooding…sending prayers from Knoxville
Thank you for the awesome scenes
Thank you for sharing
Thats a ton of water!
More like 10 tons. I'm a hydrologist.
Thank goodness Helene has checked out! She did water, prune, wash, dry and fluff all the trees for their fall color show! Doug the duck didn't get to travel far before getting hung up tho, did you let him continue to the Gulf of Mexico?😀
That is just crazy that we were there in Waldens creek and wears valley road ,,, we left on wednesday and the rain started on tuesday evening... so glad we left and headed back to OHIO, where we had a lot of power outages trees down and flooding here as well.... prayers for all the people that lost their lives and homes business , etc... we made a donation to the flood/ hurricane victims and prayers for all that are in need... God Bless you and your family for what you do for us to let us know what is going on...
Wow so glad y’all are safe!!
How high is the water mama? 4 feet high and risin'
West Virginia here, I was in pigeon forge 3 weeks ago
Going there end of October
Well damn, there goes all the trout for the next couple of months.
More like yrs
They will be restocking Thursday. Good to go.
That guys is crazy driving through that!
That person was stupid. I pray they didn’t have family in that truck
HEY ...
4:55
I stayed on Nicoha Blvd about 10 yrs ago and stopped at that Marathon gas station to fuel up a few times. We were there for a week vacation.
So sad to see, prayers for all.
I wish you had went a little further down Walden’s creek to little river rd. We camp at up the creek camp. It’s surrounded by both creeks. It backs up to that property with the white picket fence down the short cut to 321.
Send pics
God said there would be Great Floods😢
This is scary! I live in west Texas and we never see water like this!
Prayers for my fellow Tennesseans. My heart breaks for you guys in the east.
Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink.
That's bad on that differential and ujoints 😮
The transmission can get water in past the seals too.
@@julestreadway8861And the road can get washed out too, he's lucky there was still a road🇺🇸👍✌️
@@julestreadway8861 You're exactly right!
What about Dollywood? Did they get hit badly?
Good thing you all got trucks!!
🙏🙏🙏🙏 for all of you. Stay safe, my sister is south of you, no flooding yet, but definitely no power.
At 8:22 “Large Private Balconies “ right on the river , takes on a whole new meaning 😢
My kids usually take the backroads home from work, but they were all flooded today. Had to take the long way today.
The bird seems unfazed... 😊
Prayers for you all
Thank you for showing us😢
how is the weather looking? hoping to roadtrip to pigeon forge/gatlinburg in some weeks!
I'm over it Otto NC and we went 5 days with out cellphone and internet service we got cellphone service back here day before yesterday and we got internet back this morning about 5am
Nothing hotter than a diesel truck working it! Thanks. Praying for y’all out there.
Sending prayers for a recovery of businesses and homes in Pigeon Forge.
We saw higher water when we were there last year. It was going over the bridge at Light #5 in Gatlinburg.
Yep, we were there for that one too, Martin.
I live in Arizona. We get major flooding during monsoon. Arizona has a Stupid Motorist Law, the cost of those services can be billed to the motorist, plus additional liability of up to $2,000.
Finally they get to actually put their fancy mall crawler to use
Can you get through to the wilderness water park lodge area? I'm trying to cancel a trip wed