An actual comment on a Facebook video showing flooding in Asheville. Further down, there's really someone talking about "cloud seeding" and "they're trying to destroy the South." I... seriously... just... can't. WHAT?!
Thatโs what Iโm hearing from my friend. Asheville is bad enough that heโs willing to go anywhere he can on half a tank of gas to get supplies if needed but has idea whatโs out of town or where he can go.
I donโt think that people need to move away from Asheville region. But we need a conversation about infrastructure and regulation, resiliency etc; and not building in places that have high risk, especially for the sake of short-term private developer gains.
And areas around Asheville seem to have received virtually the entire average annual precipitation in this single storm...
Painful irony w/Helene's colossal damage in Asheville: the city recently placed #3 on a list of US cities most likely to experience "climate migration". Asheville summers are cool by Southeastern standards, and annual avg precip (~36") is low for the region. www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...
Migration due to climate change may land Asheville a lot of new residents in coming years according to a sustainable real estate expert.
Asheville is a famously liberal city
Yeah, Knoxville and Asheville have money but this is the space between. And it is a poor country, without many options, jobs, or any way to just move to Atlantis or wherever on planet earth isn't being affected by climate change.
An actual news media bias problem: Coverage would be completely different if Helene had hit New York and the indicted mayor was in Asheville NC.
โwhy donโt the nice people of asheville simply execute all of the republicans in the legislatureโ