Absolutely DEVASTATING Hurricane HELENE Deforestation in Asheville, North Carolina

Helene destroyed
GOD WILL REBUILD!

Absolutely SICKENING and HEARTBREAKING!!! All those Old Growth trees, Gone! 😫Houses now in Full sun. Massive swaths......odd how this hurricane worked.
Where's the wildlife? How many dens were flooded or caved in? How many nests disintegrated? The destruction is devastating.😭😭😭 💔💔💔

How can there be such catastrophic devastation to the trees, but the houses don’t seem to even have a roof tile out of place? That seems very weird to me…..

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I see a big problem with fires next year.

Most of these trees will bounce back in spring. The leaves will grow back on when the weather warms 🤞

To be honest if there were 100 mph winds some trees would still be in good shape i think there might have been some tornados that ripped off vegitation off the trees

Unbelievable🙏

some of the deforestation going on is not hurricane, but going on along time!

what they dont tell anyone is our winds were nuts. Grandfather mountain and Sugar Mountain I believe recorded high 90's. That IS NOT a tropical storm as at our attitude we were having a freaking Cat 2 hurricane.

20-30 years ago, the property next to mine was a large pasture.
It's nothing but trees and bushes now.
Nature will rebuild.

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Some observations:
* Almost of these trees were equally young. It looks like this mountain had been clear-cut a few decades ago. There is a lack of giant, old, well-rooted trees to protect the rest.
* There are no old stumps. This would indicate that the stumps and main roots were "harvested" for the wood pulp.
* There was an extremely thin topsoil horizon, also indicative of the two preceding points
* The houses looked recent, too, as if the logging roads were used in selling housing lots.
Conclusion: an overly aggressive past forestry helped make this mountain side more prone to wind and rain damage than is seen where a an older, selectively logged forest would be more robust.

What caused all this deforestation???? The river didn't go that high! What is is the result of?????????????????????????????

These poor people that live in this area are some of the ones we heard reports of who were cut off from help weeks after the event.

Ya weather warfare and we are being attacked by our own evil govern-ment and they use H.A.A.R.P. and all of these next rad radar stations to control our weather.

Lots of timber there to rebuild!

They plans. Allah plans.. definitely allah is the best of planners..

A lot of this is from around Town Mountain btw

That hillside will become ripe for landslides now.

Mercy, reminds of the aftermath of the Mt. Saint Helens eruption.

To all the sad and upset people about this Deforestation , don't understand that this is a good thing for the forest. Same as fires, it promotes life, the forest will be thriving better then before.

As many are pointing out- all this massive deforestation and future serious rainfalls will mean more horrible mud/debris slides- But also all this kindling to feed any forest/mountain fires is equally scary to think about for this and other similar regions

Those lone houses surrounded by dead fallen trees scattered like match or pick up sticks..so haunting...i imagine it all devoid of any signs of life. Not the conspicuous trees, but no birds flitting and singing. It’s like a war zone, scorched earth

Next will come devastating fires as all that fuel dries out. 😢

The Asheville area of NC is the most picturesque portion of the state. It is awful to see it so devastated. This should be a lesson to the climate deniers that hurricanes will continue to get even more destructive.

Lots of fuel for the coming wild fires

I live in the area and it's heartbreaking to see. What causes the trees to look like sticks and loose their leaves? Honestly it looks like the photos from the Tunguska meteor a hundred years ago. Incredible video, thank you for sharing.

i can imagine the sicko devil minions comments on this

there all liars

The fact that these homes largely remained unscathed while trees fell all around them is very telling. It definitely tells you the ground was compromised so the roots lost the anchoring strength they normally have. Being the mountains, you can expect venturi effect and turbulence played a role in speeding up what otherwise would have been normal wind speeds. Really sad to see as the mountains are my absolute favorite thing about North Carolina. It's hard to see such beautiful places such as the Blue Ridge Parkway looking like a debris field. The winds were definitely doing a lot more than the hurricane as a whole was doing. Localized wind speeds likely were much higher than the overall average hurricane wind speeds. You can rebuild roads and homes, but trees, you just can't just rebuild them. It's going to take a 100 years before it can return to what it once was. Who would have thought Helene could have brought so much devastation to the mountains. Thank you for sharing.

I’ve got to get started replanting. So many of our 2nd Growth Forest trees have fallen😓😢

I drove up this road (Webb Cove Road) on Saturday. This is a road that I have traveled quite often over the past fifty years. In my worst nightmare, I could have never imagined this type of destruction. In person, the magnitude of the damage is far greater than this video shows. Thank you for posting this video for others to see. Also you did a great job with the silence of the video! I think it helps the viewer concentrate on the visual impact on the environment. I had to stop several times on my drive Saturday up the road. In my life time I have heard as many chainsaws and chippers in use at one time. Also ,a very big thank you to all of the Utility Workers and volunteers out here helping a month later after Helene hit. Viewers need to remember that this is not an isolated spot. This is just one neighborhood here in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee that was devasted! There are hundreds and hundreds of neighborhoods that have been impacted like this: some by winds and some by flooding water.

My wife and I live on Elk Mountain Scenic Hwy. We have to see this every day. It’s truly as “devastating” as Aaron shows.

Some people will have enough fire wood for 5 generations

How absolutely terrible terrible terrible......My beautiful mountains and animals and plants.......And of course to those affected.....Thank you for sharing this.

Curious, are the downed trees from the wind or water? Such a large scale damage, incomprehensible.

Are there plans to help these folks below these mudslide lines????!!!

I live barely 3 miles north of this disaster in Bat Cave, NC and noticed this past decade or two depleted top soils and dying trees along the Broad River. My spring used to get cleaned out twice a year (big aluminum trough) but now needs it every 6-8 weeks especially after a rain as the sand piles up in it. Those waters, mud, landslides all need to be tested for aluminum, barium and strontium which are used in the solar radiation management experiments. They've been testing in this area along the Eastern Continental Divide since about 2010.

Wind did this? U left out the reason. The most important part

This is sort of like visiting Joyce Kilmer as a teenager. Then, 30 years later, not just the hemlocks are gone, and so are all the old poplars and blackcherries

Depopulation

That's at the top of Beaver Dam, I took a ride up there a few days ago and couldn't believe the amount of fallen trees. At my house in Weaverville it barely even got rainy and windy, it's like nothing happened here.

looks like a good place to start digging for minerals. money to be made in dem dare hills🤑

Wow, life there is going to be precarious for a long time, particularly mudslides and falling trees. What kind of trees are they? I'm so sorry for the good folks there.

Most of those tree's will come back from this. You see it in Florida all the time, they get desiccated from the wind, lose leaves, knocked over etc. next spring they will have new growth, iow. it looks much worse than it actually is from a forest standpoint.

Few houses. Few and far between. It would be cheaper just to relocate these people than to rebuild that area

Making worry in moving south .. 👀👀

Hurricanes in the mountains.... Who would have thought?😐 that house is a miracle that every tree missed hitting their home...thank you lord!!

A local here in East TN commented to me the reason why this hurricane was so devasting was it moved in a South to North direction. Not the usual East to West where the Appalachians stop the hurricane from going up and over.
Completely made sense.