Ok so who git hit? At work were still trying to access the damage to the woods. I have several salvage loggers going. Personally it was minor roof leaks lots of limbs down, lost the Walmart above ground pool to a tree spearing it and a piece of gable trim ripped off. We were out of power 7 hours shy of 7 days. I'm my area they estimated 80-100mph winds. Which puts it as a strong Cat 1 hurricane over us. We're 400 miles inland of where it made landfall as the crow flies.
Sorry to hear of your ordeal. Our thoughts and prayers are with all the folks affected by this devastating storm.
I need to hang around more. I need to post some of the wood hauls from this storm. Hate so much will go to waste. I will have my over flow area filled with wood and I won't have to go very far for it. I was looking today thinking I need to take my small trailer to work with me and cut a little bit each day from just the office area as there is so much and it's easy pickings.
I drove the backroads of the northern range of the Appalachian mountains in NC. Tons of trees down across the roads. Some of them cut to one lane from washouts. I was shocked some of the roads were open, but I suppose it’s the only route in an out for residents and a means for supplies to get in. I was amazed at the amount of trees that were cleared in a week to get roads open. Lots of big Red and White oaks piled up roadside.
It was really bad here. We live in Arden, just south of Asheville. We are fortunate, I had some trees down (1 red oak, 1 locust and 2 cherry) but none hit the house. Lost power for 8 1/2 days (came back this past Sat). On a well so we have water. We are blessed. There is so much devastation. Entire communities are destroyed. The town of Chimney Rock is gone. It's been reduced to debris floating in Lake Lure. Bridges are gone on I-40 and I-26. The landscape around parts of Asheville will be forever changed. As far as firewood goes, there's years and years worth lying everywhere. I'm sure that folks will have a lot of it mulched and brush hauled away when possible. But there will be craigslist and FB marketplace posts for months for free wood
Some amazing pics of the devastation. That last one of the lake is really something as you can see how high the water had been on the side of the building. Glad you are safe.
Really hard to like posts of so much devastation. Thanks for letting us know how bad it really was for places like this.
Friends who have a house on Lake Lure said that the lake had been lowered 3ft in anticipation of the storm water. Lake level rose about 8ft so would have been 11ft above full pool if they had not lowered it.
Hope everyone is OK one hell of a mess by the pictures heartbreaking to see people's lives ruined in a few hours JB
Amongst all the devastation there is a lot of beauty however. The community has come together in so many ways, helping and looking after one another. Stories of restaurants cooking and giving free meals, neighbors coming with whatever tools they have available (garden tools chainsaws etc) and clearing trees from roads and houses. There's a story of a community in East Asheville that became an "isolated island" when the only road in and out was washed away from the Swannanoa river. Rather than wait for weeks or months for the DOT the community has built their own new road themselves on the backside of the mountain down to the main highway. Absolutely amazing.
