Sometimes you write the news, sometimes you're part of the news. I'm writing this just around an hour from Ashvile and the devastation there. Hurricane Helene ripped through the Carolinas catching many by surprise and causing an extreme amount of damage.
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I'm writing this by phone battery, sitting in a home without power, and sitting by candle light. But at least I still have a home. That's more than these poor people can say. In a terrifying viral video, an entire house got swept up in a flood from Hurricane Helene.
In the video, you can see the entire home floating away in Ashville, North Carolina. The storm was a tropical storm by the time it hit the state. But it also still caused the French Broad River to swell over 25 feet. That also breaks the long-held record from July 16, 1916 record of 23.1 feet.
People also are calling it a 1 in 1000 year storm and that seems accurate.
JUST IN: Entire home seen floating away in Asheville, North Carolina as tropical storm Helene demolishes the state.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg)
The situation is so bad that a 7:30 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. curfew is now in effect.
The city is facing what experts are calling a 1 in 1000-year event with the... pic.twitter.com/WNNmRGnqxe
