Very sad. 😢❤

Keep documenting everything. You got a new subscriber. One question: When you flying dron in the river, can you fly close to the woods and try showing marks, muddy lines on the trees before rain coming, and wipe out all that evidence. Thank you.

Are there any plans for dealing with the deadfalls, which many of them look like hardwoods? Some inevitable drought is gonna turn that mess into kindling.

Thanks! I was wondering how much of the track was left. I can no longer hike that track. The hike from Erwin to the state line was fun.

I walked that traintrack from the boat landing in Poplar every Thanksgiving for several years, into the gorge. I wondered what it looks like now.

Great drone work.

It's gone, the old Clinchfield Railroad, incredible! I can't believe it. Yes take a break. I'm in Greeneville, TN. I understand when you say you need to take a break. When you are standing in the middle of it looking around. It's downright scary! The people in Florida had days to evacuate. All we got was, expect heavy rain. Well, we've been through that before. Expected to see some flash flooding and creeks overflowing. Nobody was expecting anything like this. These poor mountain folk. Nobody is saying it, I will. This tropical storm in the mountains is this countries worst national weather disaster! The death toll is way underestimated!

Your video is very moving and the choice of no narration appropriate. The destruction speaks for itself and the hauntingly beautiful music gives a sense respect for the loss of life. May God bless and keep safe all the survivors as they rebuild their lives. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Is this one of the lines carrying out the 90% pure quartz for the silicone chip industry? Would the two mines near Spruce Pines have use this line? Do they have an alternative now other than trucking?

Billions for Israel and Ukraine, a pittance for Americans. Our government is broken at the core.

I look at all this destruction and am reinforced in my amazement that the Nolichucky Dam in Greene County stood throughout this disaster. A miracle that it did, considering the absolute devastation wrought by this river.

If I lived there, I'd start digging a tunnel halfway up any of those mountains, to hide when the cat 6 hurricanes arrive in the coming years. Figure halfway up, you'd avoid landslides and flooding, but you gotta get into the center of the mountain.

This is quite hard to digest such devastation as this, from a hurricane so far from the ocean...this fills my eyes with tears and my heart breaks .. peace to you my friend ..

NOBODY can tell me that this was NOT a weather weapon. You can NEVER EVER change my mind on that! God bless the people of Tennessee and North Carolina. GOD WILL DESTROY THOSE WHO DESTROY THE EARTH. Revelation 11:18

Man's endeavors pale in comparison to nature's power. When the levee breaks momma, you got to move, but mountain people have the strength to persevere when times are hard. They've had it hard for a long time. They'll rise again.

Where?

great job

You can define a drought for a period of 30 days ? How does that work ?

I have watch a lot of the aftermath videos and i am in shock at the devastation on display... Mother Nature doesn't screw around, and I can remember when Hurricanes were not as common as they are now, The last Cat 5 I remember was Andrew in 1991 or 1992, and it leveled southern Florida. even 2 years later in 94 when I went for Spring break there were areas that were still in a ravaged state. Katrina was another Cat 5 that did a lot of damage and 7 years later when I visited new orleans in 2012.... the 9th ward was still a wreck. I believe most of it is leveled now and the land is dirt cheap but who wants to risk getting blasted again. I am not going to say Climate Change is to blame but we have to recognized that weather patterns have changed and the storm intensity of these hurricanes has become more significant then int he past

The Old Clinchfield will be rebuilt, and carry on its rich history.

Thank you so much for your hard work. I know the old timers, like myself could never believe the destruction to the railroad.

Sadly I don't think a lot of the devastation will be repaired in the next 10 years. The railroad maybe, big money behind that. FEMA and the GOV are too busy giving aid to people that either don't deserve to be here or they hate us but welcome the money. Nothing new. Nature gives, and nature takes. Balance comes eventually, for a while. Treasure what we had, look forward to what emerges. It's coming and it will be even better. Time heals all wounds, but the scars can be pretty ugly....

Unbelievable...

Thank you for taking us up/down the rivers. 😭 Do you know the name of the rapids, where the kayakers were playing in your 'before' footage?

Thank you for not splashing your face all over the screen and talking incessantly. Thank you for showing the people the respect they deserve.

T so heartbreaking seeing the before and after also see8ng the trees stripped from the mountainsides. The next concern is wildfires. My heart breaks for the people who make a living off the river. 😢😢😭 😭

The scourge of drones.

This is very tragic. I'm curious as to how they're going to repair the tracks. I see many tons of gravel being laid down. They'll have to build a massive concrete retaining wall along the tracks, too.

Excellent video, sobering to see such destruction....your choice of music made this video very heart felt.I have no words to express the horrific damage to this beautiful place and beautiful people who live there.

I wonder if the railroad will put in all the money required for a train to get back on those tracks?

Stunning, just sobering stunning, the now calmness of the waters, surrounded by such devastating destruction. It's tragic that how things that once was, they may never be again, but then again, somehow, life as we know it, must go on...

You can tell which side of the river the wind blew the hardest.

The thing that blows my mind is how low the water is now after all the destruction. I don't think I have ever seen the nolachucky that low. I've been to the lost cove and devils creek a bunch of times and the river was always higher than this.

Thank you again for this great footage. I rafted the north toe a lot, and the nolichucky once, had a life changing moment on that water but I love it. I lived across the peninsula from green mountain would love to see what happened on whitson branch. But you do need to take a break, it’s too much to take in, it’s too hard. I have a friend still missing from Yancey. It’s all so heartbreaking. All over these mountains. ❤

Mother natural will take back what man took from her.

What is the blue green color on yhe rocks?

The money Biden gave Iran could have gone a long way in repairing a lot of this. God help these people.

The day of the hurricane my best friend and I drove to Waynesville from UTK because our families are there. My car got stuck next to the Pigeon River in the community of Crabtree. This was after the water subsided at 11:30 at night. The sound of that water, that same water I have fished in, played in, swam with my friends and family in; had never been so frightening to me before hearing that water in the darkness of night. I could only see the end of where the water met land on the "right bank" or east/north side of the river in Crabtree. It had pulled away entire sections of road and buried everything in several feet of mud in its immediate vicinity. Anything within 200 feet of the water was completely destroyed. Trees, road, bridges, vehicles, boats, fences, powerlines, and crops.

Thanks for all of these wonderful videos with the before and after footage all mixed together. Beautiful work.

There’s enough trees on the ground to build a city….heartbreaking….

Music annoying af.

Amazing how much damage occurs when you seed clouds and stall a hurricane over a certain target isn’t it…compliments of our government…2nd time the government has flooded folks out to take their land….seems like someone needs to be held accountable….our hearts break for the families that we’re impacted by this.

Railroads own rights of ways. Many of them are now rivers. If you were to move the track, it's only a sheer cliff now, and even that would have to be condemned as they don't own it. Can't put track there anyway. I'm suspecting, because of PSR and the fact that some businesses won't move back, not all that rail will be put back. They're going to sit back and decide which parts of it makes sense to rebuild. CSX has said 8-12 months. Seems optimistic, unless you assume they aren't putting it all back in, then it kind of makes sense.

The fact that the core of the roadbed is still there is a testament to engineering a rail line through a narrow gorge.

Yours remain the most well done and visually informative videos concerning this event. Seeing one of my home rivers completely changed is hard to wrap my head around. Thank you for giving us a look at what is left.

I really hope the trout survive

No one's mentioned the tornado count . It appears there were alot.

Walked them tracks many many times fishing the Gorge! Unbelievable the force!

Sobering.

Thanks so much for sharing