asheville is really far inland! it's in the mountains! this is so insane and horrible

This is a big risk factor in mountainous areas. Happened back in 1969 (IIRC) with Camille. It had devastated Alabama when it hit then the remnants came up over the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Did this, wiping out communities, highways, causing huge landslides.

The French Broad River overran its banks, something that seems unimaginable and yet now it is here.

Asheville is 3 hours west of me. We got all of 2" here.

Roughly at 2000ft! Which is coming up a lot in my TL today as people talk about how you can’t just “move away” from climate change

the mountains are why they're getting so flooded, they scraped all that tropical moisture right out of the storm. i have friends in the area, it's really bad up there.

Asheville gets hit with tropical storms every so often. Back in 04 two did and flooded the hell out of Biltmore village, which is what you see in that video. This one is post-Frances. You can see the same Wendy's.

I love Asheville, I've been there multiple times over my life. It's a tiny city in a huge valley that has shit for drainage because they don't expect anything like this.

All of the dams in that area were built by the TVA in the 30s with little maintenance since. Just a recipe for disaster.

That's what warmin oceans mean: it doesn't affect only the coast: the masses of evaporation travel and wherever they stop, they crush all that ocean water down on whatever is underneath... :(

It rained ALOT!