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Appalachia is gone, just like pre Katrina New Orleans is gone. There are entire towns that were wiped away and will not be rebuilt. Entire families have gone missing and some may never have anyone look for them.

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Those brown areas are where the forests collapsed due to landslides, then carved deep caverns to the flood plains 


This is what it looks like on the ground when a mountain side collapses

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Here’s one swamping a highway

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GenesisCorrupted said:

I knew it was going to be really bad because I heard a quote on the radio. The sheriff in a town in Florida as he was leaving and begging people to leave that refused of course because they’ve been through so many storms. They don’t think they ever need to leave

“ Make sure to write identifying information on your bodies, that way we have a way to find out who you were afterwards.”
I’ve never heard of sheriff say anything like that in a public statement before.

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Blue_Lux said:

Easy for you to say. People in my family rode out hurricane Ivan and Sally.

Do you know what that is like?

It depends on location really. I think Helene was made worse and the people simply werent told. I talked to some people in Florida and it seemed like the news there had made it out to be like it wasnt going to be that bad. I knew from the satellite that it was going to be bad.

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Blue_Lux said:

Easy for you to say. People in my family rode out hurricane Ivan and Sally.

Do you know what that is like?

It depends on location really. I think Helene was made worse and the people simply werent told. I talked to some people in Florida and it seemed like the news there had made it out to be like it wasnt going to be that bad. I knew from the satellite that it was going to be bad.

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forecasters knew many days before the storm that Helene would be catastrophic for western North Carolina and began notifying the emergency management community in briefings and presentations, focusing primarily on flooding and secondarily on wind. Surrounding mountain towns like Asheville, a city of some 95,000, were of particular concern because the communities were built in valleys.

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