Asheville has been isolated after Helene wrecked roads and knocked out power and cell service
Asheville has been isolated after Helene wrecked roads and knocked out power and cell service
Floodwaters pushed by remnants of Hurricane Helene have left North Carolina’s largest mountain city isolated by damaged roads and a lack of power and cellphone service.
Where traffic lights were dark, drivers treated the intersections as four-way stops.
Good job, North Carolinians.
My local experience has been that when traffic lights are dark, drivers -- who have a questionable understanding of "traffic takes turns a car at a time in clockwise order at a stop sign", much less "treat a flashing red signal as a stop sign", much less "treat an out traffic signal as a stop sign" -- just enter a state of total confusion and start randomly driving however.
Where are you from? I've lived all over the US. Texas, East Coast, Northwest, Midwest and in both small towns and big cities. I've never encountered a situation where treating a malfunctioning street light as a 4 way stop isn't just the default reaction of drivers. It's extremely common sense.
Heard it's as bad as Katrina there. Lots of flooding, mud slides, and destruction. Lots of people looking for family members.
It is. There's a lot of areas completely cut off due to roads being washed out.
Am in NC but have family right over the state line in TN. Can tell you they got it as bad if not worse in places. Where the Nolichuckey winds through some of the mountain counties there are areas where all the bridges/roads in those counties are completely washed out. The water isn’t receding fast enough either.
We’ve been in continual contact with friends who are completely stranded. No way in to the area and no drinkable water.
The news is not covering it and what they are is making it sound like there are only a handful of deaths when in reality there are probably dozens of people (or more) missing.
Am afraid this is going to just all get brushed aside for some other ‘News blip’ come next week.
As in, white supremacists and cops murdering unarmed black people that are looking for food and shelter? That kind of bad?
Heard it’s as bad as Katrina there.
God I hope not. I do know people are lining up in very long lines for water and basic supplies.