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It's hard to think that a mile that way and a mile that way, it's all gone. But at least we have this. We can rebuild from here,
said Pensacola resident, Jason Stokes We looked outside and there was a 30-foot-tall wall of water and rocks and tree debris just coming at us,
It floated everything inside the house. It even floated the double-door refrigerator [ and ] flipped it on its side,
said Canton, NC resident Denise Dean Let me get this straight, he's lying. And the governor told him he was lying,
I crawled around screaming, looking for her, and I just couldn't find her,
There are a lot of people hurting. When you don't have power, when you don't have cellphone service, when you don't have water, this is a catastrophic situation for you,
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper told MSNBC on Monday night The hurricane hitting us was devastating. None of us expected to be hit as bad as we were,
Lheureux told Trace Gallagher during "Fox News @ Night" on Monday I'm hoping that the churches in this area are going to step up. I hope donations will pour in. I hope that the government will come in with a large financial aid package to help,
Our little town here has just been absolutely decimated,
Dasher told "Fox & Friends First" co-host Carley Shimkus on Tuesday Fortunately enough, everyone survived and we are all okay, but it was devastating,
Our infrastructure has been severely damaged or destroyed, and so there's going to be a ton of rebuilding just to get commerce back, just to get where kids can get to school,
He went outside just to check on where the water level was at that time, and he noticed a quarter of the house had already been washed away
I'm pretty familiar with disaster zones and this is worse than any I've seen before,
he said, speaking from the town of Fairview about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Asheville Some of our communities are completely wiped out,
It was a sinking feeling in my stomach because I knew that everybody still there just had no idea what the coming suffering and misery would look like,
We weren’t prepared for the severity of the storm,
We were not prepared, I don’t think anybody was prepared for this,
former Greenwood Mayor Welborn Adams told the State Luckily we were on high ground, but those people lost everything,
I never knew anything like this could happen here,
added Avery Dull, who lives about 25 miles outside of Asheville in Hendersonville By any measure Asheville’s catastrophic Flood of 1916 stands as ‘The Flood by Which All Other Floods Are Measured,’
according to the city's website