I think people forget that while the area around Asheville was devastated so was southern Avery County and Boone was also hit hard. That's a 100 miles northeast. Then we have 10ft or whatever storm surges in the areas around Tampa flooding and high winds in South Carolina and parts of Tennessee and Georgia and Virginia. Sugar Mountain NC is an example of the Two Americas concept. The ski areas are surrounded by condos and fairly nice houses. The low areas have old houses and mobile homes. Almost all of the mobile homes in the Town of Sugar Mountain were flooded. There are hundreds of newly homeless in that tiny town. They had to use a Chinook helicopter to bring food to Banner Elk and evacuate Lees McCrae students because the two roads out were blocked by collapsed bridges and washed out road.
The Appalachian mountains are crisscrossed by rivers and streams. The roads are carved into the mountain sides. The towns are along side the rivers where the land is flatter.
They are still looking for bodies.
I forgot to add nice way to slam the left in the OP complaining about the Reich. Totally lame.
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