As we turn toward recovery efforts, we will make certain that no resource is spared to ensure that families, businesses, schools, hospitals, and entire communities can quickly begin their road to rebuilding,
We knew the flooding was coming but we didn’t know it was going to be this catastrophic,
I just want to say on behalf of the president that we extend our deepest sympathies for those families that have lost loved ones,
All right folks, listen up, Chimney Rock is gone, Flowering Bridge is gone,
If you look around here, you can see that some homes are just rubble,
This is the most significant natural disaster that any one of us has ever seen in Western North Carolina,
Shelter in place. All roads in Western N.C. should be considered closed,
Helene brought pain and destruction to our state and we're working to get help to people quickly,
Helene is producing historic and catastrophic flooding over portions of the Southeast and Southern Appalachians."
It’s gone. I don’t know where it’s at. I can’t find it,
It happened so fast to me and scared the life out of me because nothing like that ever happened,
It’s bringing everybody to reality about what this is now with disasters,
To say this caught us off guard would be an understatement,
We’re making it one day at a time,
I’ve never seen so many people homeless as what I have right now,
We watched our town get tore to pieces is what we done,
My sister checked in with me yesterday morning to find out how I was in Atlanta,
It was organized chaos, but there was a plan, and we executed it and affected that rescue the way that it should have been done and as safe as we possibly could,
We felt like we had done what we could to mitigate that compared to what we had gotten with Idalia. But in the end, this surpassed completely what we had gotten that storm, and it was definitely shocking,
The kayak was my escape plan in case stuff got too hairy,