Cedar Key (where I usually go fishing) took its third direct hit in a year. A week after a fire took out a few businesses

Post office, quicky mart, several restaurants, and multiple houses gone or totally destroyed. On phone without real internet so I cant repost pics ...

Calling in helicopters to evacuate people from the roof of a hospital in Erwin, TN:

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The afore mentioned Nolichucky River I presume? It's been decades, but I remember Erwin being close to where we went rafting a few times.

This ain't quite over ....

The pot is a bougainvillea. The palm behind it is in the ground.

I do have two large palms, in pots, on the side of my house. When I say large, they're probably 1,000 lbs each. They're not going anywhere.

We got lucky here, it went mostly west of us. But SW Va is a mess, the New River etc. Lots of records to be tied or broken, swift water rescue teams in place etc.

Paul, that stuff around Aiken looks awful. Hope any horses she had were safe.

The rainfall totals are staggering: 29.58 inches for Busick, N.C.; 24.20 for nearby Mount Mitchell State Park; about 13 inches in Boone,

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Swananoa and Boone NC, I was just there last weekend :-(

Holy moly

I’ll take earthquakes any day

I’m glad that most of you came out ok. What place got it the worst, if anyone knows?

Good grief, it looks like North Carolina got it worse than Florida. I hope everyone is okay.

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One of my friends left here to go work the Ohio ren faire and they got smacked hard by it ...

There will be many areas in the SE that will continue to make the news ... localized devastation...

This was a bad one ... for sure.

Hope everyone is safe and well....

A lot of areas will compete for "the worst".... unfortunately :(.

Is one flooded valley different from another?

The mtns got hammered .... bigly.

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Out & about this morning .... minimal limbs & trees down here .... but at my parents early this morning, I heard HEAVY equipment .... and an occasional chainsaw ... so I went to check out the property a few hundred yards away.... corner lot.

A big azz uprooted tree was being propped up 50' in the
air ... or soon to be falling into a major road... along with others to be dealt with.

Bullet ... dodged ... whew ;)

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So much widespread damage hundreds of miles inland. Looks like low lying parts of quaint Biltmore Village next to the Swannanoa River are significantly flooded. The towns of Chimney Rock and Lake Lure, NC are completely devastated along with a section of Interstate 26 & 40. The area mountains catch a lot of rainfall and drain all of it into these narrow and bending rivers. Add development right on the banks and wait for Mother Nature to show up angry.

I hadn't realized just how bad The Carolinas were hit. I have several close friends in the area, including around the Ashville area, whom we haven't been able to reach http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1727554436.jpg
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Please keep them all in your prayers.

We should never forget the power of mother nature. Man parts of Tenn and NC just got hammered . Good luck to all affected .

This will be a long and painful recovery for many areas... basically every single valley .... flooded... over several states.