Helene was poised directly over my horse farm in Georgia, and shifted at the last minute, how it gained such power and hit North Carolina like it did when it should have been dying out is beyond me. My heart goes out! I did not sleep that night and had my boots on for what that was worth. Mother Nature is stronger than all of us combined.
@@bfgivmfith The old saying "Timing is Everything" strikes again. As wild as it sounds, I believe Mother Nature too strikes again... Bravery, the American way 🫂🇺🇲
I’m watching your courage amid the most awful circumstances imaginable and I’m shedding tears for your losses but also proud of the love and loyalty you show each other when it matters. My heart is with your community. 🇮🇪
Yeah, the hills and hollers are grand, the scenery post card perfect… but it’s the people who live there that make it exceptionally beautiful, because they are exceptionally beautiful people! Wishing y’all a speedy recovery and sending condolences to all who lost loved ones.
We are in the rural Blue Ridge mountains of western Virginia. I remember hurricane Camille in 1969. We had two feet of rainwater (in 24 hrs) washing over flat farmlands around our house. Nelson County, Virginia was decimated (like WNC,) many families were swept away by mudslides and flash flooding. Many of which have never been found. I think the death toll (deceased recovered) was just over 200. I was 8 years old, my younger brother was 6, the youngest in our family of 11 kids. We were traumatized by what we saw, even on the news. We have feared heavy rains since our childhood. My heart aches for all of the good people who have been affected by Helene. So very sad.
Nelson County got something like 24" of rain in 24 hours. News said slopes over 35 degrees slid into the valleys. People said if you were outside in it that you had to cover your face to breathe, the rain was so heavy. It's so shocking to comprehend.
Very glad you're safe . It was devastating, I've done my fair share of crying and still tear up knowing the areas I love are gone. lucky to be alive and lucky to be where I was when it hit.
The areas have been hit so much harder than people realize. This was worse than the 1916 flood. I really only realized it was going to be bad bad on Wednesday right before it hit on Thursday night because I watched the news on Wednesday (which I never do) & watched Ryan Hall Y’all weather all night on RU-vid (which I always do!)
All the old people used to always talk about the 1916 flood. It's an amazing and horrible thing to realize this is so much worse. Most will need so much for so long. God bless all of us.
Having worked for 30 years as a humanitarian and first responder all over the world, I can confidently say that volunteers, local communities AND state organs WORKING TOGETHER are the most efficient way to respond to a catastrophy! This is because they have different sets of skills, equipment, knowledge and means, and they complement each other if collaborating.
Ive heard from someone down thier doing rescue, now recovery... that there were 10,000 body bags issued & another 10,000 just ordered. They may never recover all the missing people. The #'s of which are being grosely under reported. Its so tragic, there are no words for the immense hearbreak we feel for all those affected & we have come out in your support to regain your lives. Our hearts & prayers will always be with you all
i was born and raised in Relief NC at one time the post office was here but it was moved to Green Mtn NC just up the road next to OC WITSON store where the 60 min interview took place a lot of history here thought i would share this little bit of history about this place and that flood was real real bad i forgot to say the river separates the two counties Mitchell and Yancey Relief NC in Mitchell County and OC WITSON'S store in Yancey County both counties along water ways was hit very hard at 66 years old never seen anything like this and hope and pray i never will again and thank you to all that helped
I want to Thank 60 minutes for doing story about Green Mountain. I have family there. My Grandfather was born there. I drove to the store not long ago. People in this area are strong Christian people. Praying 🙏 for them everyday. Yancey County is strong. Love them.
For clarity, the Toe river merges with the Cane river and then forms the Nolichucky and flows into Tennessee. The rivers that fed the Asheville flood were different ones.
That 50 people being missing,. There are thousands of people missing. Every town has people missing. Roland morgz, Mitchell county has four rolling morgues. For Yankee Mitchell and Avery county. Monday we found a 7 year old, little boy in the toe River the next morning we found two before 10:00, there's people dead everywhere.
I did read that a resident of NC made an ER trip to a local hospital about 30 minutes away from the flooding. A hospital employee stated that they had roughly 900 deceased in cold storage for identification purposes. Including a Pepsi refrigerated truck parked adjacent to their morgue outside running 24/7. Wonder if that is a factual count…Same thing was found on the Island of Maui after the Lahaina fire. Refrigerator trucks were running nonstop outside a commercial building labeled as a Law Enforcement Facility with armed guards stationed outside 24/7. A woman recorded the trucks all running about 2-3 days after the fire while she was walking her dog in her neighborhood. About a week after the Lahaina fire a long distance trucker commented on a post here on RU-vid that he made a strange delivery about 30 days prior to the fire. The delivery was sent to an abandoned Big Box store building. Upon inspection he found he was delivering thousands of medical grade body bags! That was roughly a month before the fire…😮 Makes you wonder about weather manipulation capabilities. 😮 I’ve lived long enough to know anything is possible.
OMG CBS thank you sooooo much for dissolving the FEMA controversy..... Such amazing, hard-hitting "journalism"..... I'm sure since FEMA told you everything is ok it's totally OK..... gimme an f'n break lol
FEMA turned down 90% of us.. the people helped not FEMA I’m still waiting.. I had a bad mudslide at my driveway 11 days without power. I’m tankful I have still have what I have. And I thank the lord I have insurance and I have my life. Those numbers are not right
FEMA won't pay if you have insurance coverage.... that's why. Y'all say the government is corrupt and then when they have regulations around programs y'all say the government is not working, Make it make sense.
@@LulaMae21 She won't support it because she can't support it. Just the worst kind of idiot running her mouth on the internet without a shred of proof. These morons make a terrible situation even worse with their lies and baseless speculations.
They tried to defend FEMA but if you watch this report again, you will notice that maybe, MAYBE 1 in 20 people are wearing a uniform or a FEMA patch identifying them. 90% of the help that I saw in this report were local people helping local people. I was a Paramedic for 45 years; I have lived in mountainous communities, and I am familiar with most of these towns in this area because I have hiked the Appalachian Trail twice and a lot of these towns have the trail running down Main St. You can report all about conspiracy theories and about FEMA all you want but this is a news report defending these agencies but the people I see working are citizens. The current Federal Government is mostly useless, and needs charged with negligence.
Hey! Edneyville, NC resident here! I live 5 minutes outside Chimney Rock. I spent 5 days down in town after the storm, helping in whatever way I could. For the first week and change, it was all local residents with their own heavy machinery doing the work. FEMA and the National Guard arrived on the ground (important note) and are helping now, but the response time was painfully slow for some people. I will tell you that I have photographs of the first CH47 and two Coast Guard Blackhawk helicopters flying above my head in to town on 9/30/2024. They did assist in airlifting residents out. This is in no way criticizing the men and women who are here to help, but the politicians who hampered a speedy response.
Honestly, they've been in NC helping. Lots of groups and organizations have been helping. It makes this American proud. The lies and disinformation are what embarrass me as an American.
@@LulaMae21 it destroyed functioning communities. Yes, there still are houses there but no one living the life they had prior to the storm. You can certainly live in one of the remaining houses still standing but they still don't have electricity, somewhere to buy food, a tap to get a glass of water out of. Your house might still be standing but it probably isn't functioning, it probably hasn't had the mud shoveled out of it yet.
I am from Wisconsin and I use to walk the railroad tracks in Marshall saying life sucks the tracks are gone and I am back in Wisconsin but it’s beautiful country and eventually the Asheville area will be wonderful if nothing else for the grit of people that survived so much and are still struggling but by 2026 it will be back in full bloom
Unaccustomed to hurricanes? Not really. It’s kind of a regular thing, just not every year. In 2004 two hit, and the results were catastrophic, in fact the devastation from them is what led to the growth of the river arts district. I remember the Peeks Creek debris flow, and all the lives lost there, surely others remember it as well? The hotel in Biltmore village wouldn’t exist were it not for hurricane Ivan, it was an Exxon station before it was destroyed in 2004. Sorry, it’s going to happen again, too.
The WNC stockyard was on the West Bank of the French Broad River, in the arts district, it was destroyed in 2004 by the floods. It’s now the New Belgium brewery. Please don’t say that WNC is unaccustomed to hurricanes, it’s just not true, they happen here, and it’s tragic. Helene was an extreme example of this phenomena.
The Bohemian Hotel opened in 2009. The Exxon station in Biltmore Village did reopen. It, Hardee's and Pedro's Porch Mexican restaurant did reopen after Ivan, but sold about 2007 to build the monstrosity
We should record their songs and culture right now! If climate change has changed the path of hurricanes no one will be able to live there while the mountains erode at a rapidly increased rate!
@@melanievando2040 I think he's referring to Trump's comments on FEMA trying to steal people's land, Biden not bringing aid in NC and the idea that Democrats controlled the storm to hit Republican areas. Not sure, as his grammas is terrible though.
it's unfortune that the shop owners quote was "something i never want to see again and i hope and pray nobody else has too" because it's never going to stop and will wipe out the most vulnerable places first, we've reached the point of no return, the ice caps are melting and overflowing the ocean because BP wants more oil, and don't worry about recycling, there's whole suburbs getting nosebleeds and migraines from the fumes at the new data warehouses in rural texas, and if you got deeper into texas where they frack the water can self ignite when reaching oxygen. 60 covered this, and taught me it. everything you've ever put in the recycling bin has been voided by corporations milking the earth for surplus resources and we're deadmeat
oh thank God you were "taught" this by watching 60 minutes, Lemme guess- FEMA is doing their job too right? Wake up ppl... geez. BTW climate cycles are different than climate change... learn about coming off la Nina year to El Nino cycle... frame of reference 2005... ppl were crying climate change then too... ya know what- next 9 years after that no major hurricanes hit lower 48... I don't care what anyone else believes, but do yourself a favor and do your own research. I know they got that Uber cool stopwatch etc, but 60 Minutes might not know everything lol
"but building next to a river is a disaster waiting to happen" literally everywhere is built off rivers....it's how communities were established and flourished. Climate change & austerity are the issues here.
Because the number of deaths that they are being told (or being allowed to report) are way lower than the actual number. Wonder why the administration would want to do that? Hmm
@@ameliadayvault9470 You are a climate change expert or a metorologist? Maybe a degreed historian? I can never tell, Trump cultist are experts on every subject.
@@tdhawk167 The administration has no control over National Guard troops when it comes to state issues. They were on site as soon as they could. National Guard troops are state run entities. Your stupid is showing.
Helene tried not to wipe out something like a community….Helene was a storm…a storm has no intension. Helene is what happens when the Oceans heat up so much that all that water can turn into clouds that rains down somewhere 🤷🏻♀️ that will happen again…more often….more extreme….if the klimachange continues.
The ocean doesn't sound like that. I've survived 15 floods.. I know flooding. This was flash flooding a very special dangerous type of flooding. You can help divert the next one maybe even help avoid it.... but you won't stop them ... only redivert them or slow them down...
There's no need to pick at a survivor's story. Her experience with the ocean may be very different than yours. I interpreted her use of "ocean" to mean "loud, rushing water" and I don't see anything to criticize about that.
I'm watching live now, the entire 60 minutes broadcast has always been a constant through the decades for my NYC family.... Thanx to the CBS media for keeping the finest in journalism obtainable 🫂🕊️💚
