After 4 Months Of Rain Fell Here In A Single Day, See The Result…

Can you imagine 4 months of rain falling in your neighbourhood in a single day? Let’s even say how do you think the entire place would look like?

The resultant devastation is what residents of North Carolina and South Caroline are currently trying to cope with.

Beyond just hearing or reading about flooding incidents in those areas, so much devastation has taken place, as a result of Hurricane Helene.

The flood reached a record 30 inches in one town, official figures have shown.

Reports cite Busick, North Carolina, a remote town near Mount Mitchell State Park.

The flooding was heavy after it received 30.78 inches of rain as a result of Helene — a record for the highest rainfall in the Appalachians from a tropical weather system.

That is higher than the 27 inches that fell over the Virginian Appalachians in 1969.

In fact, it is said that at least 20 locations across western North Carolina had enough rain to reach the 1,000-year flood threshold, including Asheville.

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This is the worst event in our office’s history’: NBC News quotes the South Carolina National Weather Service office as saying of Helene

The National Weather Service office of Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina, called Helene’s destruction “the worst event in our office’s history.”

It said the office wrote a sobering post on Facebook addressed to residents of the western Carolinas and northeast Georgia on Saturday. “As meteorologists, we always want to get the forecast right. This is one we wanted to get wrong,” it said.

“There are no words to express our sorrow at the loss of life and incredible impacts to property,” the post said. “We want everyone to know that our thoughts and our prayers are with the residents and first responders across the area as we go through this historic event together.”

“Our hearts are heavy this weekend, knowing that our neighbors, friends, and families are dealing with so much. We live here, too … We will be here with you all every step of the way through the response efforts and recovery process,” the post said, while thanking first responders and linemen who are “working around the clock.”

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A CNN report said: “Since Helene started swamping the region, it’s turned neighborhoods into lakes, lifted cars like toys, snapped trees like twigs and left businesses underwater.

“Piles of thick mud and floating debris blocked streets as torrential rains collapsed roadways and washed out bridges. It’s left hundreds of people in North Carolina stranded in homes, hospitals or transportation systems, awaiting rescue”.

Hurricane Helena, has given governments elsewhere something to chew about: How would they be after 4 Months Of Rain ?