We had something similar happen to us in Germany three years ago, many people died. It just came out of nowhere, little streams turning into rivers. I am glad you are all okay!
Man, my heart goes out to you, your family, and friends. I can see the shock in this entire video from you. Being an avid watcher of your videos and seeing the confidence in how you speek, I and many others can tell how shook up you are over this. Glad you are trying to put on a strong front, but I still feel for you and yours. My thoughts on you getting things up and running again. I do agree that New Orleans is definitely not back to what it was before Katrina.
I live in an old city in Florida and we're full of the giant old Oaks. I had a 6ft in diameter water oak fall on my house during ian. It did a crazy amount of damage but the tree was perfectly healthy and probably would have continued to live on in that position for another 100 years. When you get a substantial amount of rain it will soften the ground and that's what makes the roots give way. In my case the city and utilities company had cut the tree unevenly for decades and it made the tree to heavy on one side. When they are allowed to grow out in all directions naturally they won't tip like that. Best of luck and glad you're safe!
Most people dont really know how it feels to start all over with nothing. Mist poeple dont know what its like to have very little. I wish the best to you and your community. Its not easy to rebuild. Keep your spirit high.
I’m in Canton, NC. It’s so hard to wrap our brains around. 2 weeks after and it’s like a dream. My heart is with you! The come down from all this is on us. All the lives lost. Hard for sure.
I'm super happy that you're safe... I've been checking your channel frequently to see if you have any updates. Thoughts and Prayers to everyone in Ashville and the affected areas.
Late Wednesday afternoon I realized this was serious. I ran to get a few needed groceries & a new lantern. Filled car. Started making chicken soup. A lot. 5:56 am our power went out. Chicken soup done & cooked some bacon. Lived in Hendersonville 25 years, + 15 years in WNC. We get occasional backwash from hurricanes but not this. This was unreal. But I’ve learned to pay attention to weather reports. Just got our power on, 14 days without. We survived.
Great video, love your stamina and ability to do one-take videos with extreme precision. great content as always! glad you’re safe, silicon dojo forever
The Old cinderblock buildings were almost certainly hollow. Meaning the cavities weren’t filled with cement and rebar. Where is old brick buildings could be up to 18 inches thick solid brick.
wife an i live in ashville for 9 months last year.. the house we were renting is gone.. im so glad we moved away.. sad to hear about white duck taco...
While in Raleigh, time to get some genuine biscuits from Biscuitville. The breakfast biscuits are the best, with a large milk or orange juice. Glad to see you're safe. Good luck with recovery efforts.
Wasn't PTSD considered "shell shock" in previous wars and generations? Also, how soon until the City Council and County Commissioners return to work to reclaim all the tax money of Asheville? And give themselves a raise?
your disaster advice and perspective is welcome. feel like you have a lot to teach in a lot of directions. glad you're safe. thanks for the video. i'll check out your other related ones.
I've often joked about using some parts from a dozer I repaired for a friend to make a tornado chime. One that rings when the "oh man this is windy" applies.
We got money for everyone but our own people. I was looking at moving to Asheville before moving to Raleigh and odd to think that could have been me out there. I feel for Western NC and upsets me how the government just not stepping up to help rebuild. Glad you made it out, welcome to Raleigh, the journey continues.
Jeez. I live on 8 acres in Charlotte and did all that prep you talk about(luckily not needed). Granted I watched the hurricane coverage in FLfrom independent folks on UA-cam and they kept saying it’s nothing compared to what will hit NC. I’ve got family in Hendersonville and they were also not prepared but were expecting this. Granted hey we’re without power the day before the hurricane hit! They won’t be unprepared next time.
This is such a great explanation of how it would be with no info and how normal life was and then bam! Thank you! I’m so sorry you guys are dealing with all of this. Shows you how old ways of doing things were so much better. Built to last, I’m surprised though. Dang
Welcome to the new normal. Climate scientists called this back in the 80's. If we had a magic wand to magically go to zero emissions today the planet will continue to warm for 3-5 decades.
Sewage pumps are often used in septic systems when the house is below the fields. We have a septic system with a pump where we live. I'm also hearing about pumps in rural areas getting water pressure for a water well. Lots of dependence on electricity for things to operate at most basic level. -- Lots of refugees from New Orleans went to Houston, then they had to deal with Harvey years later. - Glad you have the ability to get out to a better place to wait this out. - The recession took our software company out too. We limped along for awhile, but husband ended up as contractor out of state to keep our heads afloat. Covid brought him back home & now doing remote work. Yeah!
I missed your rant vlogs and stories. You make a lot of extremely valid point that are lost on a lot of people nowadays. Hope everything gets better for you.
Best city in NC, my personal favorite in the Southeast 😢 so many great communities around there too. I'm so sorry for y'all and everyone in the region. Glad you're safe, but what a disruptive and traumatic thing for everyone to go through. Wishing y'all the best of luck.
Also an Ashevillain looking to make contacts for a shift from Pest Control to Computer networking. Lifelong lover of plugging things in and making them work. Highly studious, constantly reading and learning about computers. When you get back, if you could help me find an internship, paid or unpaid, I'd love to talk about it. Thanks and hope you get back to the 828 soon.
New sub after the algorithm surfaced you in relation to the disaster. Related hard to your life’s description and the wonder at what one of those “normal” lives must be like. Seems some of are just blessed with a chaos multiplier others can’t understand without living it.
Is Baltimore looking better now? j/k. Glad you are alive. Hope that area can recover eventually. It will be a big suck for everyone for a long while to come.
Happy for your life.. I have followed you and watched your videos from 2015... I've been so glued to you to the extent that, when I am teaching or explaining something to someone, I usually remember you...
I can't believe he had no idea hurricane was coming. I had camping trip that weekend cancelled it the Sunday before. Forecast was showing 5 days of rain. Helene by Thursday had hit Florida
Wow, was thinking about backups the last time the power was down. As one of those 'remote workers' you mentioned, there also goes your income. Last year I bought a solar generator, solar panels and a backup internet link after the telco could not get the internet working again for threee days. I reasoned the cell towers likely go down, I opted for Starlink. Just did not occur to me about the water going out for a month plus and basically the local town being destroyed. Probably petrol/diesel is also in short supply. Makes you think about how much we rely on 'stuff' to work. Hope you work something out. Take care.
Dude woke up one day went to work back in 2011 Hurricane missed us by a wide margin...........35 mph winds and grass fires during a drought do not mix.
I lived in Southern IL in 93 when the Mississippi had the great flood. Untill now I've never seen anything like that, and this looks 1000 times worse than that. It was normal to get out of school to go throw sandbags to hopefully save your or a near buy town during flood season. But we at least expected it. I can't imagine I bet still it hasn't sunken in completely like you get waves of oh wow my town is destroyed. Thank you for sharing your experience. I'm in San Diego now just know America is pulling for you. Part of a normal conversation with friends and neighbors out here is sharing NC go fund me and local places we can donate to.
I hear you. We outside of where you are definitely don't know how it is like onsite. I think we would be able to see or feel what you are feeling if we can see more on what is going on in person.
Sad to hear this happen. In Puerto Rico we get hit by hurricanes often so we are used to all of that. Being your first time experiencing this can be a very traumatic experience. In Puerto Rico people didn't have power or water for over a year... Myself I didn't have both for around 2 months everything just stopped... I also remember one guy who had the audacity to get mad a a clerk in a store cause they didn't have credit card payments working 😂. Dude for fucks sake we got hit by a Cat5 storm 2 weeks ago like it's a miracle the store is even open.
Knoxville was saved by 1 single dam and less then 2 feet from overtopping the Douglas Dam the Sunday morning after the storm. We are cut off from NC completely by truck but by tiny car or bike there is Newfoundgap rd 441 into Cherokee, NC. Thanks to the dam holding life west of the Nolichucky is mostly normal here in East TN. Far East TN is hurting like western nc. We had rain for 3 days straight I was driving from Asheville area to Newport, TN Thursday of the storm and it was raining very hard already flooding before Helene made landfall in Florida. I am still thankful that I can get to Cherokee, NC but for trucks TN is cut off from NC without going thru Georgia or Virginia. Most of life is getting back to normal for the survivers that did not lose their home aka those not in a river valley. This storm has motivated me to buy an old HAM radio. If you are lucky enough to work remotely and you lose internet due to storm for months... Go into the office in person every day or temporary relocate to internet, or invest in Starlink to keep your job, imo. I am not a huge fan of remote work, a lot more gets in when in person.
one thing for sure, the land around there will be much more nutrient rich (and therefore valuable for farming/mining) after such a giant cleansing event
Arrange to pack up your things from your house and store them at where your family lives out of state. Secure your house as best you can. Live out of a suit case where you need to be until you can get the information you need to plan your future.
A spectrum agent spoke to me on the Tuesday after. Promising the days without cable will be taken off the monthly total bill. Then sent a email yesterday that Spectrum is going to charge everyone full price no matter how many days we've been out for the month.......
Wanted to move in the area 3 years ago from Colorado but thought it was too expensive. Seems like Asheville has always been given high marks for quality living until now. We chose eastern Tennessee instead and now our rivers, lakes, and dams are filled with remnants of North Carolina. The county of Dollywood is concerned about its drinking water. 😢😢😢
Glad you are okay. PLEASE keep us posted man. People are waking up. Please be careful with what you say, everyone needs this UA-cam channel. I couldn't imagine the content we are going to see, but the way you explained how suddenly your world can change was perfect. Alot of people will benefit from seeing the reality of this kind of thing, and what's going on with our governments around the world I am sorry this has happened. I will donate where I can, as I am from another country my options are limited. I'd prefer if I donated directly to you.
I’m confused, I been seeing people online from NC saying they all getting turned down for the $750; then I hear the government saying that’s all a lie, we have lots of money to help you. So what’s up?
You're looking at all this from work. Communities matter and are more than work. Lots of folks talk about immigrants and how they need to integrate. But very little about what locals should do to bring new people in. Investing in libraries, community theatre, schools, sporting grounds and so on matter. Sure, do silicon dojos or man sheds or whatever, but generally help people build communities and tie them together. Otherwise, yes, remote workers can just pack up and go somewhere else and folks running restaurants and other shops will be thinned out and folks lose their livelihoods.
I'm glad you're alive and in good spirits. hope things improve.
We had something similar happen to us in Germany three years ago, many people died. It just came out of nowhere, little streams turning into rivers. I am glad you are all okay!
It sucks that this happened to you but I'm glad you are making it a learning experience for us, thanks Eli!
Eli the Water guy.
Ok i probably couldve come up with something better than this.
Man, my heart goes out to you, your family, and friends. I can see the shock in this entire video from you. Being an avid watcher of your videos and seeing the confidence in how you speek, I and many others can tell how shook up you are over this. Glad you are trying to put on a strong front, but I still feel for you and yours. My thoughts on you getting things up and running again. I do agree that New Orleans is definitely not back to what it was before Katrina.
I live in an old city in Florida and we're full of the giant old Oaks. I had a 6ft in diameter water oak fall on my house during ian. It did a crazy amount of damage but the tree was perfectly healthy and probably would have continued to live on in that position for another 100 years. When you get a substantial amount of rain it will soften the ground and that's what makes the roots give way. In my case the city and utilities company had cut the tree unevenly for decades and it made the tree to heavy on one side. When they are allowed to grow out in all directions naturally they won't tip like that. Best of luck and glad you're safe!
Most people dont really know how it feels to start all over with nothing. Mist poeple dont know what its like to have very little. I wish the best to you and your community. Its not easy to rebuild. Keep your spirit high.
No words... Hope you're all hanging on... Ty for sharing the reality...
Glad you and your wife are ok Eli! I'm praying you guys continue to stay safe and sound 🙏
I’m in Canton, NC. It’s so hard to wrap our brains around. 2 weeks after and it’s like a dream. My heart is with you! The come down from all this is on us. All the lives lost. Hard for sure.
I'm super happy that you're safe... I've been checking your channel frequently to see if you have any updates.
Thoughts and Prayers to everyone in Ashville and the affected areas.
Late Wednesday afternoon I realized this was serious. I ran to get a few needed groceries & a new lantern. Filled car. Started making chicken soup. A lot. 5:56 am our power went out. Chicken soup done & cooked some bacon. Lived in Hendersonville 25 years, + 15 years in WNC. We get occasional backwash from hurricanes but not this. This was unreal. But I’ve learned to pay attention to weather reports. Just got our power on, 14 days without. We survived.
Great video, love your stamina and ability to do one-take videos with extreme precision. great content as always! glad you’re safe, silicon dojo forever
You have perfectly captured the tragic unaware day. Thanks! Well done!
Wish we could do more to help. Overwhelming all around.
The Old cinderblock buildings were almost certainly hollow. Meaning the cavities weren’t filled with cement and rebar. Where is old brick buildings could be up to 18 inches thick solid brick.
Im in Western NC as well, its been rough, say safe and welcome back
wife an i live in ashville for 9 months last year.. the house we were renting is gone.. im so glad we moved away.. sad to hear about white duck taco...
Always the kind hearted people that gets affected the most for some reason.
Hope you pull through this tragedy. God bless you Eli.
I'm from Shelby North Carolina and live in Texas and want to come help so bad. Y'all ain't forgotten
While in Raleigh, time to get some genuine biscuits from Biscuitville. The breakfast biscuits are the best, with a large milk or orange juice.
Glad to see you're safe. Good luck with recovery efforts.
Biscuitvill sucks
@@feverwilly Really. It's been a bit since I last ate at the location near Six Forks in Raleigh, but the food was good. Did you have a bad experience?
@@feverwillyyes they suck! Bojangles.
Wasn't PTSD considered "shell shock" in previous wars and generations?
Also, how soon until the City Council and County Commissioners return to work to reclaim all the tax money of Asheville? And give themselves a raise?
Currently it's all scheduled to be sent to Ukraine and Israel.
Glad that you are okay.
your disaster advice and perspective is welcome. feel like you have a lot to teach in a lot of directions. glad you're safe. thanks for the video. i'll check out your other related ones.
I've often joked about using some parts from a dozer I repaired for a friend to make a tornado chime. One that rings when the "oh man this is windy" applies.
Good to see your safe Eli.
Glad you’re safe Eli!
We got money for everyone but our own people. I was looking at moving to Asheville before moving to Raleigh and odd to think that could have been me out there. I feel for Western NC and upsets me how the government just not stepping up to help rebuild. Glad you made it out, welcome to Raleigh, the journey continues.
😢😢😢
That’s what baffling. Tax payers and citizens get nothing 😢
Rebuilding?
Jeez. I live on 8 acres in Charlotte and did all that prep you talk about(luckily not needed). Granted I watched the hurricane coverage in FLfrom independent folks on UA-cam and they kept saying it’s nothing compared to what will hit NC. I’ve got family in Hendersonville and they were also not prepared but were expecting this. Granted hey we’re without power the day before the hurricane hit! They won’t be unprepared next time.
This is such a great explanation of how it would be with no info and how normal life was and then bam! Thank you! I’m so sorry you guys are dealing with all of this.
Shows you how old ways of doing things were so much better. Built to last, I’m surprised though. Dang
Eli, I'm glad all is ok, it sounds like you may still be in a bit of shock. Thank you for talking us through your journey 🙏🏿
I'm glad you're fine. Sending good vibes from São Paulo, Brazil.
Welcome to the new normal. Climate scientists called this back in the 80's.
If we had a magic wand to magically go to zero emissions today the planet will continue to warm for 3-5 decades.
Stfu man. Flash floods have been a thing for centuries before the Industrial Revolution.
Went to New Orleans in 2000 it was a cesspool pre Katrina. So much devastation 😢 so sad. Visited ashville and pisqua forest decades ago.
Sewage pumps are often used in septic systems when the house is below the fields. We have a septic system with a pump where we live. I'm also hearing about pumps in rural areas getting water pressure for a water well. Lots of dependence on electricity for things to operate at most basic level. -- Lots of refugees from New Orleans went to Houston, then they had to deal with Harvey years later. - Glad you have the ability to get out to a better place to wait this out. - The recession took our software company out too. We limped along for awhile, but husband ended up as contractor out of state to keep our heads afloat. Covid brought him back home & now doing remote work. Yeah!
I missed your rant vlogs and stories. You make a lot of extremely valid point that are lost on a lot of people nowadays. Hope everything gets better for you.
If anybody is prepared to survive a disaster, it's Eli. Glad you're ok. You've given us so much good advice over the years.
Glad to see you are okay and in good spirits
Best city in NC, my personal favorite in the Southeast 😢 so many great communities around there too. I'm so sorry for y'all and everyone in the region. Glad you're safe, but what a disruptive and traumatic thing for everyone to go through. Wishing y'all the best of luck.
As usual, a lot of wisdom shared, from 45m mark. I am always amazed by that.
Eli you're alive!
For what it's worth, glad to see you. I suppose most of us would like to cheer you up somehow, but we can only send the (perhaps tiring) best wishes.
Praying for your family 🙏🏻
Sorry for your losses man, hope you doing well!
😅hey Man, glad you and your family made it through that!
so sorry eli, glad you are safe now 🙏
Also an Ashevillain looking to make contacts for a shift from Pest Control to Computer networking. Lifelong lover of plugging things in and making them work. Highly studious, constantly reading and learning about computers. When you get back, if you could help me find an internship, paid or unpaid, I'd love to talk about it. Thanks and hope you get back to the 828 soon.
Informative, thank you!
Glad to see you okey
New sub after the algorithm surfaced you in relation to the disaster. Related hard to your life’s description and the wonder at what one of those “normal” lives must be like. Seems some of are just blessed with a chaos multiplier others can’t understand without living it.
Good to see you
Is Baltimore looking better now? j/k. Glad you are alive. Hope that area can recover eventually. It will be a big suck for everyone for a long while to come.
Welcome back! Get yourself ham radio licence and join local radio club.
Happy for your life..
I have followed you and watched your videos from 2015...
I've been so glued to you to the extent that, when I am teaching or explaining something to someone, I usually remember you...
2015 gang rise up
Drink for every time he says “so anyways” or just “anyways”
Interesting how this terrible thing has brought some new channels to my rhythms. Thanx, Al Go!
im so happy youre okay 🙏 Stay safe man
I can't believe he had no idea hurricane was coming. I had camping trip that weekend cancelled it the Sunday before. Forecast was showing 5 days of rain. Helene by Thursday had hit Florida
I'd join you in RTP for sure. Good luck, brother
Late to it
Wish you all the best!
I hope everything gets sorted and I'm glad you're safe.
Wow, was thinking about backups the last time the power was down. As one of those 'remote workers' you mentioned, there also goes your income. Last year I bought a solar generator, solar panels and a backup internet link after the telco could not get the internet working again for threee days. I reasoned the cell towers likely go down, I opted for Starlink. Just did not occur to me about the water going out for a month plus and basically the local town being destroyed. Probably petrol/diesel is also in short supply. Makes you think about how much we rely on 'stuff' to work.
Hope you work something out. Take care.
Godspeed, Eli!
Might be worth networking with all things open group if you haven’t yet in rtp
Hope you get home soon !
Having a Satellite Phone and Starlink can get you Text and Wifi after a flood hits the area
loRA, meshtastic
@@dennisbuswell what is that?
Thx for the update. glad u made it out. Keep laughing.
Dude woke up one day went to work back in 2011 Hurricane missed us by a wide margin...........35 mph winds and grass fires during a drought do not mix.
I lived in Southern IL in 93 when the Mississippi had the great flood.
Untill now I've never seen anything like that, and this looks 1000 times worse than that.
It was normal to get out of school to go throw sandbags to hopefully save your or a near buy town during flood season.
But we at least expected it.
I can't imagine I bet still it hasn't sunken in completely like you get waves of oh wow my town is destroyed.
Thank you for sharing your experience.
I'm in San Diego now just know America is pulling for you. Part of a normal conversation with friends and neighbors out here is sharing NC go fund me and local places we can donate to.
I'm glad that you and your wife are all right.
Hi from Florida! My turn!!
I hear you. We outside of where you are definitely don't know how it is like onsite. I think we would be able to see or feel what you are feeling if we can see more on what is going on in person.
Sad to hear this happen. In Puerto Rico we get hit by hurricanes often so we are used to all of that. Being your first time experiencing this can be a very traumatic experience.
In Puerto Rico people didn't have power or water for over a year... Myself I didn't have both for around 2 months everything just stopped...
I also remember one guy who had the audacity to get mad a a clerk in a store cause they didn't have credit card payments working 😂. Dude for fucks sake we got hit by a Cat5 storm 2 weeks ago like it's a miracle the store is even open.
He's alive.
Knoxville was saved by 1 single dam and less then 2 feet from overtopping the Douglas Dam the Sunday morning after the storm. We are cut off from NC completely by truck but by tiny car or bike there is Newfoundgap rd 441 into Cherokee, NC. Thanks to the dam holding life west of the Nolichucky is mostly normal here in East TN. Far East TN is hurting like western nc. We had rain for 3 days straight I was driving from Asheville area to Newport, TN Thursday of the storm and it was raining very hard already flooding before Helene made landfall in Florida. I am still thankful that I can get to Cherokee, NC but for trucks TN is cut off from NC without going thru Georgia or Virginia. Most of life is getting back to normal for the survivers that did not lose their home aka those not in a river valley. This storm has motivated me to buy an old HAM radio. If you are lucky enough to work remotely and you lose internet due to storm for months... Go into the office in person every day or temporary relocate to internet, or invest in Starlink to keep your job, imo. I am not a huge fan of remote work, a lot more gets in when in person.
glad to see you alive ;)
And this is only in Asheville 😮
The renters are going to break their lease and leave if they are remote.
12:18 They don't make them like they used to?
one thing for sure, the land around there will be much more nutrient rich (and therefore valuable for farming/mining) after such a giant cleansing event
They will condem, bulldoze, and rebuild it on the river just like before, All you need is insurance!
20 years later, pretty much all stupid stuff is just funny. At least you have the “distance” to laugh about it.
Arrange to pack up your things from your house and store them at where your family lives out of state. Secure your house as best you can. Live out of a suit case where you need to be until you can get the information you need to plan your future.
Yeah, the spaghetti monster is always behind the next corner... I'm glad that you are OK!
Daily blob is back;). Glad to hear that you and your home are ok
A spectrum agent spoke to me on the Tuesday after. Promising the days without cable will be taken off the monthly total bill. Then sent a email yesterday that Spectrum is going to charge everyone full price no matter how many days we've been out for the month.......
QUES ??? IS IT STILL WORTH LEARNING TO CODE IN 2024?-2025 FOR A CAREER IN TECH ??? IF SO WHICH LANGUAGES SHOULD I LEARN ????? ANY HELP ???
Did your other channel get deleted by UA-cam ??
WELCOME TO THE CITY OF OAKS!!!
Wanted to move in the area 3 years ago from Colorado but thought it was too expensive. Seems like Asheville has always been given high marks for quality living until now. We chose eastern Tennessee instead and now our rivers, lakes, and dams are filled with remnants of North Carolina. The county of Dollywood is concerned about its drinking water. 😢😢😢
Interesting that old brick buildings remained intact while cinder block buildings vanished.
Glad you are okay. PLEASE keep us posted man.
People are waking up.
Please be careful with what you say, everyone needs this UA-cam channel. I couldn't imagine the content we are going to see, but the way you explained how suddenly your world can change was perfect.
Alot of people will benefit from seeing the reality of this kind of thing, and what's going on with our governments around the world
I am sorry this has happened.
I will donate where I can, as I am from another country my options are limited.
I'd prefer if I donated directly to you.
I agree
Hope all is well, maybe its a great time for a Seattle trip :)
Man plans. The universe laughs.
One thing i cannot understand: if Asheville is in a dangerous zone, why trying to bring people back to Asheville?
It’s not only the trees ! It’s the power station it’s self. , ! It is a mess.
Im in Sanford, arrange a meet and greet for those in the the Area.
Your insurance rates are going to triple, causing the dreaded domino syndrome
gotta catch walmart at the right time after stocking up on "normal lives" to get one but they are usually sold out. ;)
Ari Shaffir’s long lost brother
I’m confused, I been seeing people online from NC saying they all getting turned down for the $750; then I hear the government saying that’s all a lie, we have lots of money to help you. So what’s up?
Everyone I know that applied for the 750 got it quick
You're looking at all this from work. Communities matter and are more than work. Lots of folks talk about immigrants and how they need to integrate. But very little about what locals should do to bring new people in.
Investing in libraries, community theatre, schools, sporting grounds and so on matter. Sure, do silicon dojos or man sheds or whatever, but generally help people build communities and tie them together.
Otherwise, yes, remote workers can just pack up and go somewhere else and folks running restaurants and other shops will be thinned out and folks lose their livelihoods.
It's Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel.