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AI6YR Ben

6 days ago • •

AI6YR Ben
6 days ago • •

WaPo: ‘Completely and entirely erased’: How Helene swallowed one mountain town (Swannanoa) https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/09/29/helene-wnc-storm-north-carolina/ #Helene #Swannanoa #NC #NCStRONG

‘Completely and entirely erased’: How Helene swallowed one mountain town

Scenes of destruction and suffering lay almost everywhere in Swannanoa, N.C. — cars in tree limbs, mangled homes, mud-choked roads and people desperate for water and food.

^{Brady Dennis (The Washington Post)}

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AI6YR Ben

in reply to AI6YR Ben • 6 days ago • •

ps. when they talk about "looting", this is what typically qualifies in disaster zones. People desperate, supplies in a wreck, but property rights > desperation.

Despite that fortitude, a sense of sadness, desperation and uncertainty loomed above this once-picturesque town on Sunday. Not far away on Highway 70, hundreds of people lined up outside the Pisgah Brewing Company with jugs and bottles in hand, waiting for water that has been so hard to find. Nearby, someone discovered that an 18-wheeler wrecked during the storm was full of bottled water, and dozens of people came to grab cases and hand out cases to others, until police officers arrived and shouted for them to leave.

“You are stealing!” one shouted as the crowd dispersed.

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