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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,
said poster Touristpov on TikTok, showing videos of the destruction 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,
Ryan Cole, Buncombe County assistant emergency services director, told local news station ABC11 Shelter in place. All roads in Western N.C. should be considered closed,
North Carolina's Department of Transportation (NCDOT) wrote on its website Helene is producing historic and catastrophic flooding over portions of the Southeast and Southern Appalachians."
On Friday, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) issued its final advisory on the storm, writing Helene brought pain and destruction to our state and we're working to get help to people quickly,
There’s a moment where you are thinking, ‘If this water rises above the level of the stove, we are not going to have much room to breathe,
she said, recalling how she and her sister waded through chest-deep water with one cat in a plastic carrier and another in a cardboard box This is something that we’re going to be dealing with for many days and weeks to come,
It’s gone. I don’t know where it’s at. I can’t find it,
There’s so many people down here, they don’t have any place to go now. This was all they had,
My sister checked in with me yesterday morning to find out how I was in Atlanta,
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,
But on Friday afternoon, ... the River
The wind gusts keep pushing me off balance too.
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,
It doesn’t come out ever. It’s kind of like the salt of the earth.”
Residents and businesses in St. Pete Beach, Treasure Island and Tierra Verde will not have potable water service while repairs are being made,
the county communications said No one is safe from the impacts of climate change and we really need to take action now to prevent these kinds of catastrophic events that are destroying our communities,