This will take weeks
I’m slowly catching up with Hurricane Helene images and stories about my neighborhood that the cellular blackout made impossible to see. (Still having signal issues this morning.) Asheville Watchdog has an explanation for why that occurred. It could happen where you live. (Where’d I put that satellite phone I don’t own?)
Seventy-two are reported dead in my county. There will be more. Someone reported friends in Swannanoa getting out of their house and up slope with the dog just before waters washed it away.
A friend downriver in Marshall lives in a second floor apartment downtown. She called yesterday to say she and her neighbors watched water rise to three steps below their floor before subsiding. The picturesque town was a location for “The Peripheral.”
Video here.
The Washington Post has an explainer on how “what fueled Helene and caused so much devastation in the Appalachian Mountains.” I can read the text but not load the images on my laptop. I can on the phone.
So it goes.