A month after Hurricane Helene brought unprecedented flooding to western North Carolina, people share how they’re coping, grieving and rebuilding.
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00:00 intro
1:42 Part 1: Swannanoa/The Zara family
3:21 Part 2: Asheville Citizen Times: Citizen Times
5:13 Part 3: The River Arts District
7:50 Part 4: East Asheville Chefs
9:33 Part 5: Marshall, NC: Josh Copus
13:44 Part 6: Canton/Community Kitchen
I'm glad your State is recovering. I want to be able to tavel and to see your beautiful state. Vote Trump 2024.
You read my mind. Was wondering if they were getting help they desperately needed. And who actually is coming to their aid.
Why do you guys downplay the total of those who have died because of Helene? You don't make sense, as boots on the ground individuals have put the total missing and dead at well over 1000. Don't get me wrong I'm glad your at least bringing attention to the disaster. I realize the election gets most of the media's attention, but something like this should be at the front of the coverage and tracking. This is going to take years to get cleaned up. Some songwriter wrote a wonderful song about the situation, and it surprises me that it hasn't gotten national attention. It gets played at the start and finish of The Appalachian Channel with John Ward episodes. You need to listen to it.
I live in Asheville and I can tell you people that thousands lost their life my 100. I would like to know if the person reporting this live in Asheville are the surrounding area? They’re still pulling dead bodies out of the rivers and mud. Families just wipe out just like that and it sickens me when the need or whoever keeps saying a hundred. But I am so proud of our community how we pull together with no help from the government.
I live here and there are STILL people stranded in the mountains, families sleeping in tents,and having their children taken away by CPS because our evil government has done nothing to help them! What happened to the people who lived in Blowing Rock? All the houses still standing, no one living in them?? The deep state mainstream news here are desperately trying to cover up the real stories, thousands of body bags were used yet only 100 people died in this hurricane? USA Today: there are a lot more of us awake now who know and see what you are doing. Shame on you!!! Shame on all of you,
What has been a blessing is that the weather has been unseasonable warm and dry so that we can clean and start rebuilding
Thanks for this coverage – I often wish news programs would go back to the site of disasters and interview people, see how they're doing and how the recovery is going. We are often left to wonder with no followup.
HEY WHAT ARE Y'ALL CRYING FOR…. WE ARE WATCHING HISTORY IN THE MAKING… WE ARE WATCHING KAMALA HARRIS SPEND MILLIONS ON CELEBRITIES FOR HER RALLY SO SHE CAN WIN AND YOU POOR PEOPLE IN NORTH CAROLINA HURRICANE SURVIVORS ARE JUST CRYING.. BECAUSE YOU ARE SELFISH Y'ALL DON'T WANT TO SEE HER WIN… Okay I'm sorry y'all… All BS to the side ..I'm praying for your families and I hope everything gets well. I just get really frustrated watching Kamala Harris beg for this election and spend so much money on celebrities ..when it's people like you guys hard-working American citizens that actually need the help.. forgive me for my ugly joke but I'm hoping that it draws attention to the right people❤❤❤❤
this was planned to destroy peoples homes to make way for the lithium mines
I. Love ❤ the people ❤️ of North Carolina.
Time for the media to fess up.. More than 1000 people died.
God be with you.
excellent report ~ thank you!
I watched this on my tv, but must applaud this release. 😢
Y’all show 2 statues of Buddha in this piece and none of Jesus? It’s Christians that have been helping put this community back together
30,000 are dead
If you want THE TRUTH- Tic Toc shows ALOT of the destruction! Town by town by town by town … From ASHEVILLE NC- at least 250 miles into TN – & town by town by town… Follow the Broad River, Nolichucky River, the PIGEON River… 100s of FAMILIES LEFT WITH NOTHING- NO HOUSE NO CARS- NOTHING!!! MATERIAL THINGS DONT MATTER- Our CHILDREN are NOT WITH US ANYMORE! It’s the loss of life that matters… ❤ To us anyway! We KNOW & HAVE FAITH in JESUS CHRIST- that HE WILL TAKE CARE OF US! & HE WILL be the one whom PUNISHES THEM in the END! ( …those whom hurt, his lil children, 🙏🏼 Amen)
I didn't think I would find this so profound and heart aching as I watched. The sentiments and strengths were amazing. Twenty or so years in my past, I lost almost everything I owned. But, mine was from stupidity, ignorance, and drugs. I can not compare my sense of loss and ache to rebuild and regain my life to what these people feel and face. I guess what I'm trying to say is that a loss is a loss, yet the reasons for that loss are very different. In some ways, I felt the pain, the grief, the need to rebuild my life, but not knowing how. 15 years later, my life is back. Better than before. Because, if I lose it all again, it had better be a natural disaster that takes my things because I can never allow my own stupidity or weaknesses to be the reason for that loss. It won't be because of me that it happens. I've rebuilt my life, I can do it again. In that thought of strength and will, I can do it again. I've gained a better perspective and a stronger vow by watching and listening to these people as they rebuild their lives. I respect them and believe in them, just as I believe in myself. ❤
Exactly!
Sad reporting no surprise
Great vid
In 2011 a F4/5 devastated the town of Joplin,MO. I mean road after road nothing was standing. That town pulled itself up and rebuilt. Little by little and yes, with the help of many. My point is – IT CAN BE DONE and ti use them as an example !! Many prayers ! ❤️🙏💯
Deaths are well over 300 I remember hearing locally a week after it was 230+ all over the radio correct the information
The people that died took the place to go to Heaven so that these people can live. This Hurricane is a reminder that Mother Nature can be harsh. She does however allow some to live and others not to. She does not play favorites and does not care about politics. If you believe in God he is letting all of us not just the people who survived and died to be prepared. For the hand of God is coming, and we all need to be prepared. This was a sad and hard lesson, but do not fret for the one's who died are on earth helping others in spirit form.They need to earn their wings, they are not angry they are busy doing God's work. I do not think they were trying to cheapen this incident, but sometimes to keep one's emotions in check and not fall apart. The may come across of not caring, I will pray for you.Blessings
100, dead…get the story right…try thousands….
The news media is such a joke..tell the truth or the mountain folks will!!!
Excellent viewpoint of Helene's devastation. Sending prayers for the people in Appalachia.
Its a miracle this family survived this flood!
It's way more than 100 that died you are talking at the lowest hundreds people there say thousands, why do MSM play down the horrendous death toll? It's shocking.
So, the blood sucking media are on the story, I would rather hear from someone who ACTUALLY KNOWS the impact/struggle/loss.😢❤
Thank you for continuing to cover this. The needs will last long after the national attention.
Thousands dead and hundreds still missing. Very underreported.
Please help finance homes. Operation Helo, Cabins4Christ
Glad to see & listen to a therapist with knowledge of surviving TRAUMA. I, TOO, AM CONCERNED ABOUT OTHER'S MENTAL HEALTH.
Death loss, non-death loss???
Survivor's Guilt.
Parents & adult children processing how to recover; where is their knowledge coming from…probably not from experience….
Children of all ages and abilities processing this trauma, from their point of view.
PETS, Farmyard stock, how will they process their individual/pack TRAUMA.
What support is Available for all… any help for school children/teachers, teacher's aides, cafeteriaworkers, janitors. & how to spot a troubled person+ where to send them for support; WHEN once schools re-open? IN DECEMBER?
What about the underhoused, unhoused [recent & months/years ago community]…. where are Tiny Houses? Will they be donated for people who stay?
Mental health for us all, even the watchers of YouTube whom were not personally in harms way…but keep being reminded to not forget these people.
How are we, as current & former health care ptoviders, going to manage our TRAUMA, for ourselves & in order to help others?
Well, adequate self-care is vital for survival, but how will we survive without mental, physical support?
Are there enough volunteer therapists for all of us affected?
This video is the first therapist I have seen as a therapist, helping to reassure us of talking about it to help both of us.
Thank you.
I’m hoping the concert money can pay mortgages??
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉happy🎉🎉🎉
I’ll tell you what North Carolina has, Great Neighbors! Everyone else in the country needs to pay attention to how these people are helping one another.
I only visited this area once and I’ve never met such warm folks. I know it may not seem like much, but every night you are in my prayers and I won’t stop until the day you’re all safe, warm and have food and water. Once I get some more money I can spare I’ll be happy to send it once again! ❤❤❤❤❤
Asheville was a tough place to live even before Helene. The cost of living relative to wages was one of the worst in the country. A lot of people are going to leave the area I feel. And it will flood again and so many areas are now in flood zones. Good luck getting insurance.
A consequential storm.
His Holiness Dalai Lama says never give up.Blessings to you all.From Aussie.❤
So this is exactly what the oil companies knew would happen decades ago. And they continue to profit from their poisons. Continue to get our tax money in subsidy payments, protected by our military and government policies, continue to gaslight the people who are and will suffer the consequences of this changed world…… This is what brought tears to many others in countries that were first to suffer from the altered wrather patterns as US citizens ignored and denied the harm they wreaked on God's gift
Wonderful so wonderful 💝💝💝💝💝💝💯
So tired of reporters just reporting on Asheville. Asheville will be fine, they will get the investment needed to rebuild. Report on Mitchell, Avery, McDowell and Yancey counties. I say this as an Asheville native.
Come visit banner elk at sugar mtn an beech mtn,we housekeepers need to get back to work❤❤❤