Im Spruce Pine. The Entire river has changed... it's heartbreaking. Let us Never get used to seeing the destruction and be complacent... people are still hurting and now freezing..

What trees were left...

Gouged out down to the bedrock. Tragic

In Pensacola - this gives so much perspective. Even driving around here, it’s hard to remember where houses were until you check old pictures 😢. This is a great perspective.

Completely mind-boggling. The railroad bed and track really show just how much sheer force and power water has.

Railroad is going to do what they have to do to fix things and no one is going to stop them

Wow! the damage is unreal.

I hope they put some of the rapids back.

I was hauling rock to the spot at the end of the video at the Church. Good footage! 👍

Remember, it took over 100 years to reach the majestic beauty that was destroyed in a matter of days. It'll take a 100 more to return to that beauty.

Man what a ripoff! I thought for sure we were going to see a train wreck or two. I just can't help hearing trains for some unknown reason.

This is a beautiful and emotional trip. My niece had property on the Toe years ago. It is a heartache to see the ravages. Thank you for the comparative to what we hope it can be again.

Thank you for preserving what it looked like and how it has changed 💟 It is so important.

In a few other places in the country that are similar to these..they construct the highways etc on bridges elevated far above the water with supports ...I guess that is the best way to describe them....hugs and extremely over engineered Example being I 70 through Colorado

Is this hurricane damage?

Thank you for sharing ❤ Love and Light to my friends in the South ❤️🇨🇦

railroads. one of the OGs of building the USA.

Amazing that the water levels are so similar in each video.

We are absolutely delighted to see this great work being done. We can only admire the men involved in this great civil engineering project. Thank you for bringing us this magnificent video presentation which is very much appreciated by us, the choice of music is most acceptable also.

These videos and stories need to be continually told, as most people have no clue how bad things are… more devastating than we could’ve ever imagined! I am continuing in prayer for everyone who has been affected by Helene, and all the wonderful people who have come from far and near to help, when our government and FEMA let us down!

may we have music attribution... thanks; it pairs well with the video

Keep up the videos, its insane how much work has been done so far and how much is still needed.

Amazing what money can do!

They need to dump a couple of loads of that rock in the river and make the bottom smoother for the trucks. The river life has already been damaged so its not going to hurt anything. They can dig it back out when they finish crossing it. What will hurt the river is when the rough ride breaks a swing cylinder or a boulder cracks the rear end housings and dumps gear oil in the river.

Well done! High production values! Amazing that the broad flat river has become channelized almost overnight. Perfect illustration of the power of flowing water. Things will never be normal again; changed forever.

Wow! 😢

To me that looks like a great float river…something I really like doing…

Brilliantly done. So important for folks outside the area to see this and understand why this storm was different from other hurricanes. Bless you 🙏🏼keep up the great work.

Amazing video. Not sure if the railroad will be able to rebuild in the areas where it was washed out to the wall and beyond. It will be interesting to watch the progress if they can.

I watch all your videos but haven’t commented. This was superb flying skills. You really captured the true picture. Brilliant work. The sync was simply amazing. Thank you for taking the time to get it perfect.

Genius idea to remember some of your early footage of the river and sync it exactly to your present day flights. Great flying and editing!

All those beautiful trees gone when they would be in full fall colours now. ❤

This video does an excellent job of showing how much water came down the river. I kept visually drawing a line from one side of the river to the other side at the high water level. Hard to believe that much water came thru! Excellent job!

🏆 Brilliant 👍

Is that your wife on the bridge at 7 minutes? Clever work around to get the drone footage.

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In another 3 years it will be like a flood never happened! Nature will reclaim the river and its banks with trees and wildlife!

Sending love and prayers to everyone effected 😔🙏🏻❤️‍🩹

fantastic, and very educational lets hope engineers and architect look at this, not only scientists :triangular_ruler:

Fantastic! Thank you for doing this! I will save this.

Skill set on another level with this video.Thanks.

With this you can grasp the concept of the hurricane being worse than Katrina in 05 and the death toll being higher than 9/11 attacks.

so devastating

That is the North Toe River, correct? Amazing destruction in most of the stretch except one part near the beginning. Excellent job on the synchronization!

Like others have said, thank you for this great documentation

Amazing footage and editing thank you

Great video work-I have tried to picture in my mind what this area looked like before the flood. I have lot's of experience with R/C, so I know exactly what you are saying about the signal. Really nice work. 👍

Other than the mountain in the background to prove its the same place you wouldn't believe it.