High Country Hurricane Damage

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High Country Hurricane Damage

Unread post by Bootsy » Sat Sep 28, 2024 5:13 pm

Friends, I realize the HC holds a very special place in the hearts of everyone here. So I’m creating a dedicated thread to share updates.

The High Country doesn’t have much in the way of media outlets. Plus, the big state/national news outlets didn’t have time to place reporters there due to uncertainty of storm track.

Because of road washouts, mudslides, down trees/powerlines, etc., updates are very slow in coming. So word-of-mouth is how many updates are being communicated out to the larger world right now.

“Unprecedented” and “Catastrophic” are overused words these days. But they accurately describe the destruction in the HC. Comparisons being made to the flood of 1940 are not media hype; many believe the damage from this event is even is much worse.

Feel free to post any updates you receive here. Also, please consider donating to the Red Cross or other ministries/charities involved in relief efforts. There are victims across many states who are suffering from this storm.

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Re: High Country Hurricane Damage

Unread post by Stonewall » Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:17 pm

No words to describe this. I’ve been around awhile as have my people, here for generations. It is catastrophic.

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Re: High Country Hurricane Damage

Unread post by Bigdaddyg1 » Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:49 pm

How many mom and pop places won’t likely ever return? My heart aches

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Unread post by BambooRdApp » Sat Sep 28, 2024 8:00 pm

Was able to leave Boone as Pine Run Rd opened. On I 81 heading back to DC...an army of power utility trucks heading down interstate
Hopefully help is coming
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Unread post by rbarthle17 » Sat Sep 28, 2024 11:00 pm

Consumer's Energy out of Michigan has sent emails to us customers that they are sending as many as they can spare.

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Re: High Country Hurricane Damage

Unread post by huskie3 » Sun Sep 29, 2024 1:01 am

Friend went from Gastonia to Boone to get his son home, don’t know routes.
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Re: High Country Hurricane Damage

Unread post by Captain Morgan » Sun Sep 29, 2024 2:39 pm

Lake Luray Chimney Rock. Facebook video is about the worst I've seen so far


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Re: High Country Hurricane Damage

Unread post by biggie » Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:03 pm



This guy is out of Florida and just flew up to help. He has mentioned other private helicopter helping as well.

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Unread post by BambooRdApp » Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:23 pm

This is one of many that will be sad to report.
Last seen floating down the river with her house. I had to let this sink in a few minutes.
So sad.

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Re: High Country Hurricane Damage

Unread post by biggie » Sun Sep 29, 2024 11:41 pm

Some video of the heli efforts around Asheville.


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Re: High Country Hurricane Damage

Unread post by App91 » Mon Sep 30, 2024 9:40 am

biggie wrote:
Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:03 pm


This guy is out of Florida and just flew up to help. He has mentioned other private helicopter helping as well.
This is Cleetus McFarland, owner of the Freedom Factory and You Tube fame. From Florida, so cool to see so many using their own resources to help!

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Re: High Country Hurricane Damage

Unread post by biggie » Mon Sep 30, 2024 9:50 am

App91 wrote:
Mon Sep 30, 2024 9:40 am
biggie wrote:
Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:03 pm


This guy is out of Florida and just flew up to help. He has mentioned other private helicopter helping as well.
This is Cleetus McFarland, owner of the Freedom Factory and You Tube fame. From Florida, so cool to see so many using their own resources to help!
Yeah I watched him on YT for years.

Here is a lot of the private heli guys. I know Greg Biffle has been helping with a heli and went and picked up some from Banner Elk recently on his social media.

https://fb.watch/uWt74NLFv8/

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Re: High Country Hurricane Damage

Unread post by BambooRdApp » Mon Sep 30, 2024 9:55 am

I believe some students from Lees MaCrea (sp?) got air lifted by the National Guard to hickory maybe
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Re: High Country Hurricane Damage

Unread post by asumba95 » Mon Sep 30, 2024 10:19 am

Captain Morgan wrote:
Sun Sep 29, 2024 2:39 pm
Lake Luray Chimney Rock. Facebook video is about the worst I've seen so far

unfathomable...

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Re: High Country Hurricane Damage

Unread post by biggie » Mon Sep 30, 2024 10:46 am

Saw a vid of village area of Biltmore it is pretty wiped out too.

The lasting damage will be compounded by the lack of tourism in the near future as well. A lot of small businesses may have to close because of that, even if they survived without damage from the storm.

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Re: High Country Hurricane Damage

Unread post by AppinVA » Mon Sep 30, 2024 10:59 am

So….did the Boone Waffle House remain open through all this?
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Re: High Country Hurricane Damage

Unread post by biggie » Mon Sep 30, 2024 11:25 am

AppinVA wrote:
Mon Sep 30, 2024 10:59 am
So….did the Boone Waffle House remain open through all this?
I'm guessing they closed due to the water in that area and then loss of power, but assume water didn't get up to the building.

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Unread post by BeauFoster » Mon Sep 30, 2024 11:31 am

AppinVA wrote:
Mon Sep 30, 2024 10:59 am
So….did the Boone Waffle House remain open through all this?
They closed around 11am on Thursday, not sure if/when it re-opened. The manager stated they needed to send their people home to deal with the impending damage.
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