The DIRTY SECRET within this North Carolina lake...

[@lynnfiegl4953]

Thanks to everyone who helped pick up the trash!! Keep America Beautiful!! ❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@tomf1408]

Keep America plastic free!

[@lightfoot413]

Real People doing the Real Dirty Work...Thanks to you all....

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Happy to do it. We got some killer help! 💪

[@BrideOfChristJesusTheLordGOD]

So awesome to see pep's coming together, for one another ! My heart goes out to all the people on the Florida Coastline, and all the people in Tennessee and all the People in the mountains of Carolina. ~ Joe Obiden said, *"Our Response is to Increase the Number and Intensity of these Extreme Weather Events."* This is NOT the first time this Garbage Joe Obiden, has mentioned Weather Modification/Geoengineering ! kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3TCoqmlmJmJgdE

[@Lazy_Fish_Keeper]

​@@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses as a child, our family volunteered and helped clean up at Falls, Kerr, and Fontana Lakes every summer. Thank you for shining a light on this!

[@dadigan5117]

Well done, y'all, especially after the devastation of Helene. You're helping to restore my faith in humanity. Thank you as a fellow human.

[@02petal]

I pick up rubbish when I'm on my walk with my dog. Not everything and not every time because I get pissed off that people can't and won't take care of our home. Big thumbs up for what you all do. ❤

[@TeriNkc]

Next dog walk I'll be taking a trash bag !

[@garylines5755]

I do the same and it's amazing where you find trash and what you find

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Fantastic yall! No worries, doesn’t have to be everything or every time. Most people do nothing - so if lots of people did a little, a big impact would be made ❤️ keep on keeping on! 🐾

[@m.t.426]

Exactly!​@@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses

[@m.t.426]

Good way to meet people too.

[@pudintain9656]

Thank You Mr. Jones. I love Fontana and have noticed the difference over the years.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

So happy to hear this, thanks for the comment ❤️

[@timmorin69]

This Canadian is VERY proud of you two for this incredible yearly effort!! Even though I am not even from the same country, I am from the same planet, and we ALL benefit from your efforts and the efforts of other people like you by having these beautiful clean places to visit and explore. I learned what "adopt a highway" meant from a past video of yours and have since adopted a stretch of highway in my own area to clean up a couple times a year. Even if some of us live too far away to make it to the Lake Fontana cleanup (10 hour drive away for me) your videos motivate and inspire others to make a difference in our own communities. THANK YOU Brandon and Sarah!!

[@jodyj8528]

I unpacked a box with a new piece of furniture yesterday . . . in Minnesota . . . and the amount of white foam particles that now coat my living room is epic sad. Now to think of a lake full of giant white blocks of it, degrading slowly over time, and whoa . . . who ever thought THAT was a good idea, right? Jeepers. THANK YOU for cleaning up this lake. Y'all making a wonderful difference for the humans and wildlife who use it now. 🙂

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Right?! hard to believe that unencased styrofoam sitting directly in water for years and years sounded like… a good idea, at any point in history 🙈 although we worry about the microplastics & invisible particles it may be releasing in the meantime, at least one day with the new regulations prohibiting it we WILL have all of the big unsightly chunks of it off the lake! 🙏

[@Sushi2735]

One man making an enormous change! Bravo to the movement you have started, and tanks to all those people who now are part of a movement to clean up this beautiful like, 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@techguy9023]

More people need to know about this clean up.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Working on that! 😋 yall feel free to help us out & tell folks/share this video 🙌

[@johnthomas3842]

Were sitting here in Southern Nevada watching all those beautiful and kind hearted folks give their time, money, food and smiles for the good of this lake. Brandon and Sarah, what a great job, thank you for what you do and the great content you bring every week.

[@davemccormack6646]

Fell in love with you two months ago and now you’ve taken it to the next level. My heart is full seeing the community come together for the cause you started. ♥️. If I’m ever in NW Carolina I will definitely reach out to you

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Awesome to hear 💚 so glad you’re enjoying our videos & we sure do appreciate the sweet comment!! 🤝 yes, just let us know!

[@melanie2846]

Wow, this was amazing. “Old man” Jones, & Mrs. Jones, well done!!! Y’all are awesome, as well as everyone else who pitched in. So inspirational…..hopefully, your efforts will be seen by more and more folks who just might get inspired enough to start something like this in their areas. Hope y’all have a wonderful weekend and we’ll see ya next Friday!

[@LaurenceDay-d2p]

Bless these good people who are collecting all that trash. I hate to see beautiful natural areas polluted and defiled. We need more people like this in our country!

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

🙏💚💪

[@janeysiegrist5061]

Gosh dang, I just find myself respecting and loving you kids more and more with every episode. This is a beautiful episode ❤

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

❤️❤️ we appreciate you & glad you enjoyed!!

[@scottpitman3266]

Thank you Jones and everyone involved.

[@johnwitte551]

Kudos to you Mr Jones, a thousand mile journey starts with 1 step. you have caught a lot of good people in your long journey!. the world needs more people like you.

[@paulet3682]

I did a little bit of a walking trail cleanup this year. But you are right, we don't have to wait for an organized event to pick trash anywhere. When aluminum cans were worth one cent each, i picked a lot of cans, and would drag a bag for trash with me. Unfortunately, i can't walk long distances any more. When we make it to the beach, I always take my reacher tool and pick up trash while I hunt for pretty rocks. We are a few miles from Lake Michigan and it is nice to walk except we have more pebbles than sand.

[@bobbyvee8941]

A reviving story in a currently, tumultuous time, in our Country !

[@shelliespeaks]

THAT IS A ONE-LINER on fire!!! 🔥 New TRASH CLEANUP TAGLINE - “It’s not our trash, but it is our planet”! ❤️‍🔥

[@carlapierle8623]

I'm just so proud of you and Brandon for your perseverance in making this clean-up happen yearly. It's SUCH a beautiful thing!!! Just walking around my neighborhood it's disheartening to see the amount of trash people throw on the ground. I do pick it up, but I always feel frustrated wondering WHY it happens.

[@mwmentor]

It is truly sad to see the amount of trash that can accumulate in such a short space of time (relatively), but wonderful to see the many folks who gladly give give of their time to clean it up. And of course, thanks to you guys for arranging the annual clean ups! Keep up the good work!

[@DanBullard]

Great job! I had a floating home and later a Catamaran Cruiser on the Columbia River near Vancouver WA, and I adopted our island, Caterpillar Island and cleaned it every day, walking the beach picking up shards of glass, nails, cans, and literally TONS of trash including homeless camps. The island is only one mile long, and in 1999 the beach was covered in glass. I got it so clean you couldn’t find a single shard of glass on the beach. In 2016 we were kicked out of Washington state for living aboard a houseboat, so we left our beloved island and found a new marina in Oregon that would accept us. It was still worth it, we did good and are happy we did it.

[@robsledgegroupie]

Damn, Caterpillar Island doesn't look small, either! Kudos and thanks for making a difference, even if others didn't feel that way.

[@adamjankowski4315]

Glad the kicked you out

[@nomorehate9176]

And this, my friends, is what Americans can accomplish when they have the same goal and pull together. This makes me proud to be an American like nothing else! Congratulations to you all!!

[@DIDNOTVOTEFORTHATONE]

Thanks!

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Wow! 🤯❤️ we sure do appreciate that, thank you SO much. Means a lot!

[@shirleym4309]

Kudos to you Brandon and all who have pitched in and did the actual work!😊😊😊😊

[@lesleylatham8414]

Wow. Ah-mazing. What an impressive operation. You guys are seriously GOOD PEOPLE! ❤

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

💚💚 Aww. We appreciate the love!!

[@beckycollett917]

OUTSTANDING! You all make the creatures, the trees, the Earth so much better for all of your Care and Time!!!! Makes my Heart Sing!!!!

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

💚💚 thank you!

[@itsdeanya]

Loving this. Proud to be from NC, when people like you are there.

[@elizabethbottroff1218]

I had seen your Helene video when he was checking on the arrival of the dumpsters. Seeing the participation and results in this video is incredible! Congratulations on a job well done. The, "old-timers'," comments reminded me of an old story. A man arrives at a beach to see it covered in starfish after a storm. He sees a young girl picking them up and tossing them into the water. He goes up to scold the girl. "Why are you doing this? A young girl like you isn't going to be able to save all of these?" The young girl looks up at the man. She ponders what he said. Then she smiled. She reached down, picked up a stranded starfish that was just barely still alive. She tossed it into the water. She turned to him. "I may not be able to save all of them; but I saved that one." She smiled again at the man, and continued on down the beach, tossing starfish into the water. It's always frustrating when people gripe, won't do even a little bit, and actively oppose the people that are doing their little bits. SMH

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

❤️❤️ it’s been a long time since I heard that story. Love it, thanks for sharing. Totally agree with your final thoughts - I think it has to do with guilt, them not wanting to see someone else doing something while they do nothing - so they’d rather say whatever they can to get you to do nothing, too. Misery loves company! 🙈 but hey, so does whatever the opposite of misery is haha. We got this! 💪❤️

[@JennNahrstadt]

Having just spent 10 days visiting state parks in AR, TN, and MS, one of the things we came away from our time recognizing is our need to participate in maintaining this beautiful world we live in. Thanks for your work where you are.

[@kellyk2645]

Love that you're getting to the maintenance stage. As a floating home owner on Fontana, I hope to be able to help out next year.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Yayyy we would love that!! ❤️ stay tuned, we’ll start sharing the dates a few months in advance (next summer or so).

[@ButchBerry-e7g]

My mom an dad honeymooners at Fontaine lake , 52 years ago . Thank-you very much !! Your awsome guy !! God's got his hand on you .!!

[@scott8689]

No blaming just fixing the problem! Fantastic humans

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Anything else is a waste of time & energy, + causes division where you could be using the same situation to bring people together. Nothing to it but to do it! 💪

[@bobbysandycam9677]

So glad we found this channel! This area is our favorite part of the country! Mississippians here and we just love your mountains and streams and lakes! So saddened by the recent devastation but so encouraged by the outpouring of love and support!

[@skjoiner]

Thanks for all that you do for the lake and for being the best channel on You Tube!

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Steve you’re always so generous! How did we get so lucky to reach you with our channel 🥲 thank you so much!!!

[@BevRich-y8u]

I didn't know anything about the trash problem.. thank you for taking on something so tremendous baby and thank you for actually accomplishing what you set out to do, good job

[@MelissaMalzahn]

Great job everyone. Thank you all for loving our country. Id love to come see your lake one day. ❤

[@judischarns4509]

Wow!wow!Wow! What an amazing project. You guys have accomplished an amazing amount of environmental clean up and leadership. Thank you for doing this work, being leaders in your community. I think this is a model that could be replicated at other lakes. I love those T-shirts.

[@babyjuggernaught8203]

Love fontana, wakeboarding as the sun dipped down. Will plan on helping next cleanup. Thankyou for what these volunteers are accomplishing. ☮️💞

[@douglasbarton7440]

Awsome job. Thanks to all. 😊

[@TerryFalan]

That’s so awesome guys! What a great group of people that came to help out with the cleanup! Just shows you how much they care! Sending love! T&C!

[@garystepp1054]

Next up…Lake Lure and all of WNC. Great job everyone. Beautiful story and beautiful effort.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

❤️💪🙏

[@kennethmcewen5334]

KUDOS to you, your friends, and organization, and especially your attitude about this stuff ! ! ! We are kindred spirits ! Carry on.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

💚🙏 appreciate you!

[@eileennavarrete9459]

Humans at our best. Thumbs Up

[@donitaarender7839]

Wow,just wow!! This is so Awesome!!

[@janebrummett8014]

Good on ya! Thanks for making your corner of the world a better place.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Change starts at home they say! 💪❤️

[@profit-engine8001]

I love what you have done for Fontana Lake! I own property on Cherokee Lake and look forward to launching a similar effort on "our" lake. Thanks for the inspiration!

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Fantastic!!! 👏 love hearing this! Just get that ball rolling, it may start small but that’s ok - just keep going, you never know! 💚

[@paulet3682]

Thank you for organizing this cleanup. It is great that you are seeing that areas can be maintained easier where you have done the big cleanups.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Absolutely 🙌 there is a light at the end of the tunnel!

[@LifeBetweenTheDash]

Love what you are and have done. Vision and consistency. Well done all ❤️💓❤️

[@angiebrewer9960]

Great job everyone!!

[@KindalFerson]

Love Mr jones’ attitude. 🇺🇸

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

🤘💪❤️

[@monmixer]

I'm glad you all missed the hurricane. That is unreal.

[@leonagann5161]

You guys are so awesome! I so wish I lived closer to come be a part of this. God bless you two for your giving and caring for all things.

[@sarameitner6770]

As every year - you and all the volunteers pull off an amazing amount of clean-up. I'm on the other side of the world from you - so can't unfortunately take part there locally, but thank you for your passion - and wish you all well. Environmental heroes!

[@mrichards1114]

Awesome job you two! Looks like a great crowd showed up again this year. I can't wait to hear the total amount of trash cleaned out in this one weekend.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Us too! We usually do the cleanups in graham county and they are super speedy with the trash, this one being on the other end of the lake is in swain county, and they are not so speedy 😆 not sure how long it will take to process that many dumpsters! Hopefully not too long 😋

[@winmarfbd909]

Thank you 💪❤️🇺🇸

[@Trump-is-a-Khuilo]

Thank you to everyone involved.

[@adderleybermuda]

Congrats!!! Well done. 🎉🎉

[@franklohr3345]

I'm impressed. Hope to be part of it next year.

[@suebee1436]

That is truly sad they even have to do it. But thank you for caring....everyone who participates.

[@georgemorcom9700]

That is so awesome! So impressed by everyone joining together to get a lot of ground clean. I adopted a section of highway for the same reason. I hope I’m making a difference. I know you guys are. Thank you for putting this together and to everyone who felt compelled to help and make the lake better.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Yayyy that’s awesome! That is most definitely making a difference 👏 not only directly for that stretch of highway, but also as a preventative measure since that highway trash will probably otherwise run off into a body of water when it rains. Thank you!!!

[@teresaslovingcare4444]

WOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Way to go guys!! Love ya ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 If I lived closer I would have loved to have been apart of this. It's an excellent cause and making a huge difference! Git 'r done!

[@Lobo4ever]

Really great work! Well done volunteers! Woohoo!

[@salscycleshop3416]

Great job Folks 👏 👍 What a beautiful way to spend time together ❤️ ❤

[@UAX4IT-]

Best people in the world North Carolina !!

[@DrJ4712]

You guys are Amazing!❤😊

[@samueldixon6857]

Job well done first living on ythe lake is something i never seen, until last week when i seen i video of you and your wife doing the storm...hard working man indeed god bless you. Buffalo,Ny.

[@alldecentnamestaken]

Huge W. Happy to hear about this initiative. Maybe next year I'll head over that way and lend a hand.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

That would be fantastic! ❤️🫡

[@melissacase7554]

Thank You, for all the hard work....LOOKING GOOD!!!

[@sherryacox65]

So Awesome!!

[@michellemarkham1816]

This was amazing to see! Thank you for showing

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Thank you for watching 💚

[@keithl6249]

Thanks to everyone who helped with these clean ups! I wish that everyone would care for our world like you do. Schools should bring the kids out to pick up litter and explain the importance of not littering. My parents taught us and it just seems like common sense to keep things clean.. who wants to swim around with garbage? or hiking along looking at trash.. Everyone needs to chip in .. Brandon should be very proud of this accomplishment!

[@Robertbush-s7t]

This is a good thing y'all do And with all that has happen up there it good to see people still helping God bless you all

[@overwatch2671]

This is awesome. God bless each and every one of you that took part in this.

[@angiegodwin6]

Awesome this is happening.

[@chrishagberg3420]

I always love the trash cleanup videos - so inspiring, not to mention the tangible difference it makes to Fontana Lake. I hope you all are still posting ten years from now. Can you imagine how far you'll get by 2034?!?!

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

💙💙 so glad you enjoy! Haha hopefully 10 years from now the trash cleanups will be very tiny, insignificant, & uneventful! 🙏

[@Carolb66]

What a stunning lake & beautiful scenery. Well done all of you keeping your home trash free, seems like a mammoth task, what a travesty. Keep getting the word out get even more volunteers. Keeping America beautiful! ❤ from your cousins in the UK.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Thanks yall! ❤️❤️

[@josephdayrader2496]

The percentage of people who consciously litter is mind boggling to me. It’s not just people, companies that knowingly cut corners on waste disposal are just as bad.

[@bethgahring6676]

Beautiful job my friends, per usual! It's good to know there are people like you on this planet❤

[@claramullen]

Thank you Brandon(old man Jones) and Sarah for how much you do to improve you part of the world.And to all that helped in the clean up. I am one of those people that make sure I carry a trash bag when I go hiking or just walking aroud my neighborhood to clean up as much as I can I don't understand how it doesn't matter to some humans to trash our world. Thanks for caring ❤

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

Love that ❤️ thank you for being “one of those people!” ☺️ we need more of you!

[@SpinDrift55]

Fantastic!! 👏👏👏👏🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️❤️

[@28105wsking]

Not just trash in Lake Lure at Chimney Rock, bodies too. We swim in it in summer, but not now!

[@katesisco]

Seeing a problem takes a giant step to addressing the problem. Thanks!

[@kathyjean4785]

Thank you to everyone who helps keep it clean!

[@kharris5866]

Great job!! Love you guys!❤❤

[@carterb43]

This is so fricking inspiring! What a wonderful thing you all are doing. Kudos! ❤

[@johngodwin7902]

Great video. Thank you so much for all of the work you are doing. We really appreciate you.

[@vickieberger9492]

Thank you for caring!!

[@robinbortz4696]

Great job!

[@janp7660]

This is inspiring. Good job starting and continuing this project!

[@janiedillingham3190]

Did your grandma tell you, "Many hands make light work"? I ask because my grandma sure told me that! :) I grew up in western North Carolina (near Chimney Rock and Lake Lure). I have three brothers and one sister. When we all pitched in, the job got easier, and it sure did go a LOT quicker. (Grandmas are always right.) I really wanted to come to the trash cleanup this year. Unfortunately, I just started a new job and could not figure out how to ask for time off to go pick up trash. But NEXT year? I'm trying to recruit my brother and sister in law, as well as anybody else I can round up to come with me. This is an excellent project! I wish there were more Brandons in the world to motivate and inspire people to give up a weekend and do some good for our planet. Ya'll are the BEST. And I mean that.

[@KeepingAfloatWiththeJoneses]

I think it was my dad, but I truly can’t remember haha. Hey congrats on the new job!! That’s exciting & totally understandable. We’d love to have you out for next year ❤️❤️❤️

[@SusieQ450]

Wow! Thanks to these folks who are keeping NC beautiful.

[@charlierumsfeld6626]

FANTASTIC!!

[@Rob-fd6si]

This is the truth of the mindset.

[@Mithril170818]

Thank you guys! I love that lake!

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Cool video!

[@kathharper]

What an excellent example of organization and collaboration!

[@threedalu]

Now we’re also cleaning up in and around Asheville NC.

[@pattiwhite9575]

I live along the southern gulf coast. We have a 90 mile long barrier island. We get tons of garbage every year from the ships out in the gulf. They are so nasty to just let their trash fall of there ships, It is horrible. But, we do clean ups like yours. We have organizations and groups of people that have their own sections of an area claimed for keeping trash picked up. It is great work.

[@beverleybarnes5656]

Patti White, do you know about "The Ocean Cleanup" channel on KZbin? You'll be the ideal subscriber. 🌎

[@yardarm5]

. great work everyone !