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A few friends who live there are relaying the devastation to their homes, community and trails. There was a multi million dollar trail project just completed in August. Everything is destroyed… old and new. The trails won’t get much help for a long time. Folks need to rebuild their homes and stores. So sad. 🙁

Check out Seth’s Video.
 
The River Arts District is just completely washed away.

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I forgot Seth lives 20 minutes away from us and his AirBnB is really close.

I find him annoying in his videos but it was nice to visually see that area and how it's doing. That gas station he went to is across the street from the Cognative Brew House and next to the best Mexican restaurant in the area.

In Brevard proper we just got cell service this morning. Still no land based internet, main connection into the area is gone. Luckily we never lost power and we're in a good spot. Opening our house for those that need it as plenty of people still don't have power.

The trails will get lots of love, but the issues will really be access roads that don't get rebuilt, or trails that are completely wiped out. The newer revised trails are probably OK with the exception of the trees down. But the Avery Creek Road which is the gravel road that takes you to a bunch of trails like Upper/Middle Black, Avery Creek, Bennet has a washout that's not passable. I doubt that's a priority for the forest to fix and I doubt that's something they let volunteers fix.

We got word that they cleared out the mudslides on the main road through the forest up to the parkway yesterday.

I haven't seen any updates on Dupont, they closed the park fully before the storm. The main road going there from Hendersonville has been washed out.

I'm still barely catching up with what's going on. We've had no real contact with the outside world for the last few days so oddly people far from here are getting a better picture of the devastation than we are. Luckily on Sunday night someone brought their Starlink to a bar for everyone to hop on for a few minutes to get important messages out. Then last night the Library got internet with tons of people hanging out outside at night using it. Woke up to cell service faster than we've ever had before.
 
It seems like the mainstream news didn't share much about this tragedy. Now that they're catching up some of the pictures of the devastation are heartbreaking. Some parts of this region are just completely wiped out. And not the trails, but like entire towns.
 
It seems like the mainstream news didn't share much about this tragedy. Now that they're catching up some of the pictures of the devastation are heartbreaking. Some parts of this region are just completely wiped out. And not the trails, but like entire towns.
When I got internet last night and checked out Google News, I was surprised the news was basically from a few days ago and very sparse.

I think it's just been the total blackout of internet/cell and accessibility to areas. Asheville seems to have been in the news but it's a relatively big city and it was clear they were going to get destroyed leading up to the storm, especially as they didn't fair well in the 1916 flood. Typically this level of destruction doesn't happen in the mountains. And due to being mountainous there is way less communications, power, more landslides, roads destroyed etc etc. Certainly not a huge area like this.

I keep thinking how we went through Sandy and this is much, much worse. And when that happened the cell towers were able to keep going on backup power and such, communications wasn't really an issue.

Meanwhile our town internet returned an hour ago which is a nice return to normalcy except for work. Expecting people to be showing up today for power/laundry/showers.
 
It seems like the mainstream news didn't share much about this tragedy. Now that they're catching up some of the pictures of the devastation are heartbreaking. Some parts of this region are just completely wiped out. And not the trails, but like entire towns.
Not sure what news you consume but every site I visit/watch/read is all over this, in NC, GA, FL, and beyond. The overall impact is terrible.
This storm began over the Yucatan Peninsula and in a few days became a raging Cat 3 as it went over the very warm Gulf waters.
Asheville and Western NC was lauded as a "climate-change haven', but obviously it wasn't.
Nowhere is safe from climate change disasters and I'm hoping that the apathetic or denialists will finally wake up, and, at a minimum, make their communities more sustainable and resilient.
 
May be heading down to do welfare checks for the Bumcombe government, considering my SAR and forestry background. Just need new tires put on and I can make my way down. My fears are the lack of fuel/fuel stations and housing. This is definitely going to be a long, drawn out process.
 
May be heading down to do welfare checks for the Bumcombe government, considering my SAR and forestry background. Just need new tires put on and I can make my way down. My fears are the lack of fuel/fuel stations and housing. This is definitely going to be a long, drawn out process.
Why Buncombe? They probably have more ability to handle this from an aid perspective than some of the other counties, the more mountainous/rural ones. Especially now with the air drops into AVL. I'm assuming you're in contact with someone down here.

If you get the green light from a local organization, keep an eye on how to get in. It seems right now the path is Greenville where there's gas available and then heading up 26 to Buncombe. But if you worked with any organization I'm sure they would give up-to-date info. Getting gas once here is probably going to be hard.

I doubt there's housing outside of beds in make shift shelters.
 
I wonder how Squatch bike shop made out. We got to ride with James, the owner, when we were there. I hope he, his shop and crew are OK.
 
I wonder how Squatch bike shop made out. We got to ride with James, the owner, when we were there. I hope he, his shop and crew are OK.

Nobody knows what's going on with James, he sold the shop 🙂. New owners are awesome and it seems the whole crew is OK, that part of town came out unscathed. The bar/music venue over there was hopping taking cash/checks and people bringing their starlink for a few hours a day.

All the bike shops seemed to have done well, no flooding. The Hub was..the hub for people meeting each other as the Verizon tower was mostly working for phone/text but not internet. They're not open but a gathering area for power and meetup.

Earth Mountain is not open for bikes/service but are open for people to use wifi/power.
 
Why Buncombe? They probably have more ability to handle this from an aid perspective than some of the other counties, the more mountainous/rural ones. Especially now with the air drops into AVL. I'm assuming you're in contact with someone down here.

If you get the green light from a local organization, keep an eye on how to get in. It seems right now the path is Greenville where there's gas available and then heading up 26 to Buncombe. But if you worked with any organization I'm sure they would give up-to-date info. Getting gas once here is probably going to be hard.

I doubt there's housing outside of beds in make shift shelters.
That works, as I have to drop my dog off in Greenville, then head back north.

Buncombe seemed to be the only county openly accepting volunteers. Though I am really bummed out that I sold my quad and have yet to fix my enduro motorcycle, which would've been ideal in this situation.

I keep hearing both good and bad news. I am unsure how many people are still up in the mountains unaccounted for, or stranded without post-storm contact.
 
ugh sorry for your community
I can't help but notice that Seth charges his EV battery to 100% which is not advised and sits at 96%
Lightning kicks ass with the generator. I want one next.
 
My community is fine, it's other areas around us. The news is worse and worse in other areas as time goes on.

Even Seth is in an area that basically didn't get hit hard and he was trying to show what happened near him for clicks.
 
My community is fine, it's other areas around us. The news is worse and worse in other areas as time goes on.

Even Seth is in an area that basically didn't get hit hard and he was trying to show what happened near him for clicks.
That video was a lot of talk and not much else. The short videos I have seen are pure destruction. Terrible.
 
Hopefully they will learn from this. Reminds me of hurricane Hugo that hit SC, trashed everything from Merdle beach to Charlstan. SC passed laws to prevent rebuilding in flood zones. If a house was more than 70% destroyed, the home owner was brought out and the house was dismantled and zoned so no one could rebuild.
 
This isn't Merdle beach or Charlstan, wherever those are.

The easy to see damage was the river damage, the majority of the damage is in the mountains and places that aren't in the flood plane due to the rain. Mud slides & fallen trees.

It did also break all records of flooding and rivers were multiple feet above the record floods from 100+ years ago. But this wasn't just a flooding incident.
 
This isn't Merdle beach or Charlstan, wherever those are.

The easy to see damage was the river damage, the majority of the damage is in the mountains and places that aren't in the flood plane due to the rain. Mud slides & fallen trees.

It did also break all records of flooding and rivers were multiple feet above the record floods from 100+ years ago. But this wasn't just a flooding incident.
you people who live high up in the mountains, hundreds of miles from the ocean/Caribbean should have know better.......Why didn't you build a giant umbrella?
 
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