i hope you all get the help you need but i also hope this is a lesson to appalachianites and everyone else that you can't build in river bottom land when you have a river that drains 5000 sq km. the river that runs through asheville flows on average of 500-1000 cfs in asheville, but recently went to over 40,000 cfs. you cannot fuck around with rivers that drain that much land. that's the nature of appalachia. the geologic formations are old and massive and the rivers are too. you see what happens now. it hasn't happened in a long time perhaps, but it will happen again. hopefully they haven't forgotten what happened there last week by the time it happens again.
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