My wifeâs family is in Hendersonville. Brother-in-law works for the county and he was supposed to go into the town this morning to help with clean up efforts and help stranded people. He couldnât, too many downed trees and washed out roads.
He went over to my father-in-lawâs to help him get his generator started. They live 10 minutes apart and it took him hours to get there.
My daughter went to WCU and that stretch of I-40 has always seemed to have had some kind of issue, be it rock slides, construction, etc.
Certainly feel for those in western NC and all the areas affected by Helene on this 35th anniversary of Hugo.
Wow. Unbelievable!
This section of I 40 has washed out before. The river makes a sharp bend here and the rushing water gets jammed here and slams the bank beside the highway and the bank is no match for the strong torrent that hits it.
Is anyone opposed to posting this here?
In related news:
Brief vids of Chimney Rock village devastation:
Whoever took that video is pretty lucky to be alive. Impressed that the deck stayed up, but maybe it was more of a glancing blow from the water?
Edit: looking again, does seem that most of the water went right, still lucky though.
I was at my grandparents this week in Southeastern Tennessee and had to go through Georgia to get back to Charlotte today. Itâs going to be a long time before normal travel is restored. I feel for those people, you donât think of flooding in the mountains but itâs devastating in areas. The killer was the storm before the hurricane, everything was already near max when it hit.
clt says we are hosting the appy field hockey team
