Australian Reacts to Heartbreaking Aerial Footage: Asheville's Devastation Revealed
Added 2024-10-03 10:24:58 +0000 UTCG'day guys, please enjoy this early access video of the devastation of Hurricane Helene.
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Helene 1st set sights on the big bend area of Florida as a category 4. Then moved into Georgia devastating Valdosta as a category 1. Then was to move north and direct hit Atlanta. We were terrified what 70 mph winds were going to do in a city filled with trees (and our house) but the storm’s main force moved east (even though Atlanta still got 13” of rain and major flooding) the brunt hit Augusta (where the Master’s is held) and devastated that area. From there as a tropical storm it headed to western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee where it dumped 30” inches of rain. Keep in mind that Western North Carolina is the Appalachian mountains. No one in a BILLION years would ever think a hurricane could come so far inland and cause so much horror to one state. The 100’s of rivers and bridges couldn’t handle the amount of water coming down so quickly. What you saw is an itty bitty portion of the Asheville area. The unfortunate truth is that the entire western part of the state looks like that and is essentially inaccessible to everyone but air lifts and helicopters. They are even doing mule teams to get supplies in. It’s a bloody nightmare. And for me personally, my parents lived in those mountains for 30 years and I’ve spent countless vacations and holidays there. Those special places have now been erased. When you say whole communities are gone, that’s not an overstatement. It’s the sad truth.
Lee Ann Kaplan
2024-10-03 13:16:42 +0000 UTCInsurance companies are always coming up with ways not to pay out
Patrol Gaming
2024-10-03 11:27:25 +0000 UTCIt should also be said that insurance companies are already pulling shenanigans to avoid paying people. I saw on YouTube someone who was living in his parents backyard in a trailer whose trailer was destroyed was told that they weren’t paying anything since he hadn’t traveled to a safe distance of 100 miles away from the path of the hurricane. Lyle, based on the size of the storm, that is the equivalent of being told “sorry your house is gone but since you didn’t take 2 days of vacation time and pick up and move it from Sydney to Adelaide, we’re not replacing it.”
Josh Lyons
2024-10-03 11:16:14 +0000 UTCDevastation is the word for it. What should be explained for your Australian viewpoint is that a hurricane still being that strong that far inland is very abnormal. It is also rare for hurricanes to have that travel path. Combined, this is a once per century or rarer disaster. They had no reasonable expectation of this scenario so they were not prepared. A lot of people in the area are poor but proud isolated mountain folks, so they wouldn’t / couldn’t evacuate if they had enough warning. I’m from that far inland. It wasn’t until I moved to the coast that I considered hurricanes a threat. Where I come from, you can sleep through hurricanes. By the time they get that far inland, they’re little more than a bad rainstorm. This is the equivalent of a category 3 hurricane hitting Sydney with no warning. You can imagine how that would go. I saw on Facebook someone posted that their commute normally takes 40 minutes but it took over 2 hours and along the way, multiple times, they reported bodies and their locations to police. I can’t imagine how you continue with working at that point.
Josh Lyons
2024-10-03 10:49:58 +0000 UTC
