BLACK MOUNTAIN, N.C. (WCIV) — The picturesque landscape of the Blue Ridge Mountains has been dramatically altered by Hurricane Helene, leaving Black Mountain among the hardest-hit areas in Western North Carolina.
The community is grappling with the aftermath, facing months, if not years, of recovery.
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Where's all the damn military presence and helicopter assistance?! NOWHERE! Money for Israelis and Ukrainians but no help for us Americans?
I had to evacuate from Black Mountain NC down to Georgia. My heart is breaking for my community 💔 It's a wonderful thing to see all the people coming together and supporting one another. I Love Black Mountain and all the people there.❤💔🇺🇸
It's so wholesome to see people helping each other and surviving this gruesome tragedy
There will be no recovery they the government wants your land to sell it to black rock for strip mining,you will never see the smokey mountains again as they will strip mi e belowe grade.
Remember biden stole the money so that this would happen and drive you to get your land.
Galveston was hit in 1900 and when i was a kid in the 60’s and 70’s you could still see the effects
Wont be the same.
Technically it was tropical storm Helene which did that.
Kinston NC still has not recovered from Fran and Floyd 1999.
I love black mountain. so sad 🙁
How terrifying to live through that :(:(:(:(
The people working together w/o government. Just wait till gov gets their hands in the pie. Don't expect much but red tape and delays. They (gov) have no idea what their doing or they would have been prepared.We need a good clean out in gov. Best wishes n prayers to all who have been touched by hurricane. My church is already there n more to come.
system HAARP – weaher weapon against People;
L0rd have Mercy on these sister's and brothers in Christ especially Casey Kristophet
Thank the democrats for the slow response and lack of supplys
Now black rock is going to swoop in and try to buy your land for pennies on the dollar, why lithium and other precious minerals that are in the area . Research it!
Almost every area suffering from flash floods will take several years to return to reasonable living standards.
Yea it takes years because gov is slow unorganized
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has introduced legislation that will redirect funds from a FEMA program for migrants to Hurricane Helene victims, and ban other federal funds for the initiative.
Well I have a place near Newport TN and I just got back from there. I talked to some church people close to Erwin TN who were packing up food and supply's for the people ravaged by the hurricane they said the death tole was way higher than what is being reported they also said that Fema was blocking people from using drones to look for people and blocking people from delivering food water and supply's to these people under threat of arrest if they keep doing it. And according to a nurse who was at the airport in Ashville who over heard Fema talking to the local sheriff they said that the real death tole was add 00 to the number reported so that means 20000 people dead. you can not believe a word that MSM tells you all the major news agency's are now just propaganda agency's and gas lighting agency's.
Whole money is going to Israelis zionists but not available for Americans peoples so sad
NO REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRATS JUST PEOPLE.
The feds need to stop paying Israel,don’t send national guard over seas. Instead, put all resources to recovery from Helene. Rebuild with national guard, corps of engineers.
Fast track permitting, just rebuild ( maybe use existing, not new, drawings)
Western NC resident here. COULD take years? We have homes and roads destroyed and bodies floating downriver. YEARS of work 100%
Check out a video Mark Huneycutt posted on his channel called, ' I walked to Chimney Rock for answers '
It shows some unbelievable damage around Bat cave, the roads are totally washed away and so much more. Be safe and please donate to help our friends and family during this tragedy.
Keep voting Dumb-O-Crap and Keep getting screwed just like today and the last 4 YEARS
Revelations 🤲🏾📖
US Govt is offering $750 per family for victims of Helene,while they gave $150B to the Jews in Israel to provide free housing free education free healthcare for 9m Jews in Israel. Why are Israeli Jews more sacred for Biden and the Congress than the 340m American tax payers?
My grandma's dead😂😂😂😂😂
Luckily millions of migrants will spend years rebuilding US communities… Funny how they love USA more than their own family & friends at home communities?
It will be years.
Fema, army should be setting up tent cities for homeless people.
Weather control was invented YEARS ago, and we think that mountains flooding is normal? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZGr2hXCq2w Now why would anyone want to bring the southeast to its knees right before an election? Hmmmmmmmm not the party handing out tax payer funded benefits like its going out of style, right??
Sun down town .
in the era of global warming, living on the American continent surrounded by oceans, in the near future for 200 years, is life-threatening, go back to Europe, better to Russia 🧐😘
Not could but will!!!
Praying for all of our friends in Black Mountain and all of those affected by this horrible tragedy. Peace & Comfort. Carl & Leann.
Not only did I suffer 8 days without power, water, cell service, but being on disability I make a certain amount each month and I'm pretty good at working on a budget, but I had to spend my rent just to survive ! Gas, groceries, batteries, flashlights, and fresh food every day. How are we to recover from the financial strain ? You have to be a homeowner to qualify for the piddly $750 and from what I'm being told, you have to pay it back in some instances. It's crazy how much deviation is here now, it will be years by the time it's all done and over. God bless you all and have a Blessed day 😊
ABC sucks. I am voting for Trump to unburden America from what has been.
I’ve been going to blue ridge leaders school (YMCA blue ridge assembly) located there since I was a teen and to see this really hurts my thoughts and prayers goes out to black mountain it’s such a nice community too
I guess states are feeling what the south feels like all the time
It won't take years to recover when Trump gets back in office. He knows how to get things done!
Aren’t there ANY people who took pictures of Black Mountain ? All we see is cameras pointed at the ground or a piece of roadway.
Drones just show water and mud which could be anywhere !
It will never go back to normal and the sad part is that this kind of devastation will continue to get worse and happen more often
Humanity is not prepared for what is to come from the changes we have done to the planet
It’s not going to be pretty in the coming years as civilization and society collapses
More like decades
❤Triumph Trump❤
Look more like Trump White Mountain…Mother Nature Doesn't like racism..Try to keep blacks out but can't keep mother nature out…