Hurricane Helene (Aftermath)
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* You walk into a place that, you know! what it looks like and then it's not there. It's pretty hard, but thankful that we had... you know, ourselves here to take care of things, to assess... and I don't know, I just it was, it was pretty hard. * The house took on... water about 3 ft on the upper level so the complete downstairs was completely inundated. um for about a day and the upstairs took on 2 or 3 ft of water for several hours. The river topped out right up there at the top of my driveway and uh submerged my car. * It was it's this was a terrible storm. Helene was really a bad storm you know! it's just sad and I mean I've been strong strong but it got to me this morning. It's at the point where it's irritating me and pressing me that I can't do nothing for my family that I want to do because if it was a room available that's where we'll be with Power and Water you know it's hard it really is hard. *70 to 80% of the district has or is in ruin, there's... so there's a lot of history here and um you know the river Arts District is like a part of the soul of our city so you know it's incredible I don't think there's anything like it in the country that there's you know just within a mile we've had about 26 different buildings that housed over 300 artists in just the span of a mile some of these buildings and the ones that are still standing were built in the early 1900s and you know this has it's changed everything. * We knew a big hurricane was coming through but we've never seen anything like this before. 4:30 in the morning I got up everything was fine it was seemed to be fine, went back to sleep got up at daylight and I looked out the window and it was just total Destruction. It took me days and hours to go across bridges that aren't there anymore roads. It's been just mass destruction around here. * The aftermath of everything is just weighing so heavy on a lot of people um that even though the Hurricane's over and things are getting better. There's there's still so many variables that people are trying to deal with. * So we did see some significant flooding um lots of trees down um houses of course and businesses that have been flooded um but this community has really in the last 6 days moved mountains literally um to get to people check on our outline communities. * You know like I said I'm just real thankful that uh that that the community is is like it is and like I said I think it's it's got a lot to do with the fact that we see each other every day you know we don't we don't always we don't really get together a lot so it's kind of like a family with a funeral you know you everybody comes and you're happy to seeeverybody but you know it's a funeral so I'm sure there's a lot of other people out there who are worse off in us you know I mean right now we got I got water at my house there's a lot of people in here that don't have running water so you know they're carrying buckets to flush toys we're just. * a little, a little time trying to open the roads up I made a road this this road here here Wedington road is washed out completely and there's no hope of fixing it with the tractor it's going to take big equipment we were able to cut a road through the field through the corn field and they're going up and around and getting in there now so it's a it's a long road and a little bit at a time. * Hi guys heard from each other until you got here physically. * No, no we pulled up and they were all out there working and we hocked the horn they didn't know who we were cuz we just pulled up in the truck and they all came running to the car and we all hugged cried and then laughed at the situation of it took you 6 hours and then just thankful that you know everybody was alive because we couldn't come in contact I knew that they lived right beside a river I just didn't know what to do so we packed up and the 8 hours meant nothing in comparison to making sure that was okay . * The 1916 flood in Marshall was 23' 9 inches this fud was 27 ft. * Seeing the water up you couldn't really tell the damage. When the water went down and we came down here it was a whole other level of Devastation. * We knew it was going to be bad just from looking across the street we knew how bad it would be cuz you could stand over there and look straight through and see the River on the other side the back door was completely gone so we knew it was going to be bad. * People did what they could as far as uh Excavating things we were able to get a bunch of materials last minute it from Ace Hardware in Weaverville or sorry in uh West Asheville bring it through and then with a small group of folks able to get some sandbags up in preparation uh the next day we thought we had till a littleit longer so we were tuckered left came back and that's when we started seeing the sides of the streets start fill from either angle and at that point realized it was kind of a salvage operation and not a protect the building situation so we tried to a few things out but the water the water moved quick. * I mean the water went all the way to the Second Story on this building so our whole restaurant was just like put up and thrown down and everything was Tipsy, Turvy and just everywhere I mean we had 8 in of mud in here so yesterday I had a huge group of people I didn't even know some of their names I mean people that I did not know came here and sh doubled mud for 12 hours the buildings have never made the town. The people made the town and the people are still here the buildings you can rebuild but you can't create that Community from scratch. People that I did not know came here and shovel mud and that's a testament it's a testament.
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