Hurricane Helene Brings Catastrophic Flooding to US South

Update from Lake Lure area- FEMA funding drying up, massive debris removal continues, trying to get Chimney Rock back open for business. One of the lined landfills (for waste designated as hazardous presumably) they are using is a 140 or so mile round trip. Numerous other places are being used for the trees and vegetation to be stockpiled and ground for mulch.

  • FEMA Denies North Carolina's Request For Extended Disaster Cost-Share Waiver, by Zola Sigmon, Sat, April 12th 2025 at 4:15 PM, Updated Mon, April 14th 2025 at 6:36 PM. (WLOS) — North Carolina Governor Josh Stein has released a statement regarding FEMA's decision to deny the state's request for an extension on the 100% cost match for recovery from Hurricane Helene on April 11. This decision follows the governor's request for an extension of the cost-share waiver under major disaster declaration FEMA-4827-DR, which was declared on Sept. 28, 2024. However, on Monday, April 14, Gov. Stein confirmed that he plans to appeal FEMA's denial. "North Carolina was granted 30 days to appeal FEMA's decision to deny our request to extend the 100% reimbursement match. The Governor's Office has every intention of appealing this decision. More information will be released in the coming days," Gov. Stein's office told News 13.

  • More than six months have passed, and tree limbs can still be found mangled in splintered docks, and shorelines are buried beneath layers of sand and sediment. “The water that came down, 28-foot high water, pretty much wiping out Chimney Rock, North Carolina which ended up here in our lake in Lake Lure devastating the infrastructure. So, we were very much on our heels from day one,” said David DiOrio, Mayor Pro-Tem of Lake Lure. “Right after that, we started seeing elements of the army show up to help.” USACE said they’ve completed nearly all of its assigned Right of Way mission clearing roads and surfaces. They’ve accounted for more than 1.99 million cubic yards of debris removal in that area alone – equivalent to nearly 46,000 shipping containers. After months of work clearing roads and surfaces, crews said they’ve now transitioned to a new phase of recovery — removing debris from beneath the deepest parts of Lake Lure. “This is where we’re doing a lot of the deeper water removal out here on the lake. A lot of the sand, silt, and sediment and stuff came in from off the Chimney Rock side,” said George Minges, lead debris subject matter expert with USACE. “We’ll be working throughout the lake as we do that over the next few months.”

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Lake Lure Storm Recovery and Town Updates for Friday, 4/18/25

Please take a moment to review the Lake Lure Storm Recovery and Town Updates for Friday, 4/18/25. IN THE NEWS
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A temporary bridge to build a temporary bridge while plans are made for permanent bridge

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Peter Santenello who has a 3.85M subscriber travel channel on YouTube has just done a piece on NC and the aftermath of Helene. Peter goes to little-visited places in the US and some places in Europe and interviews the average citizens in a warm, straight-forward manner. It's very interesting. I was especially moved by the volunteers re-building the retaining walls of the river with excavators. They've been at it since fall 2024 and have not gotten paid. Solely working on donations.

 
A section of I-40 that was severely damaged by Hurricane Helene has again washed away from a mudslide caused by heavy rain and erosion. Many are unhappy because the Tennessee and North Carolina governments really rushed getting the highway back up for the summer tourist season. Now it will be even longer before the highway is back to pre-Helene conditions.

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Zerohedge posts an article: Massive Lithium Lode In Appalachia Could Power 130 Million EVs: USGS.

America's worrisome dependency on foreign sources of lithium could become a thing of the past: About 328 years' worth of last year's lithium imports is buried in Appalachia, according to a new analysis published by the US Geological Survey (USGS). That's about 2.3 million metric tons of undiscovered but economically recoverable lithium -- aka "white gold."

The deposits are spread over a large swath of territory. The southern Appalachians -- primarily the Carolinas -- have about 1.43 million metric tons, while the northern Appalachians hold 900,000 metric tons, most of it in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, USGS says. Added up, it's enough to put the requisite lithium in 130 million electric vehicles, or a thousand years worth of laptop production.

Today, there's only one operating lithium mine in America: the Albemarle Silver Peak Mine in Nevada.
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