Flooding in Barnardsville
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Flooding in Barnardsville
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WLOS-TV news footage from Sugar Creek Road in Barnardsville, north Buncombe County, showing water rushing below the bridge; and Hobson Creek Road, showing water line on a building and mud on the bridge. Taylor Thompson reporting.
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English
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1 digital video recording (02:26)
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2:26
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Taylor Thompson:
You guys. We are out here in North Buncombe County and Bernardsville. I just want you to take a look at this devastation here. We're on Sugar Creek Road, the bridge right here. I mean, it is just flowing and it's actually come down from what it was earlier. Earlier today, this entire bridge everywhere. It was just covered with running water. If you take a look down here, I was actually just talking with one of the Barnardsville firefighters, and he's telling me this is the remnants of a mobile home. This is what's left of somebody's home down here. I mean, the way he described it is that this is going to be devastating for the entire Barnardsville community. I spoke with one of the Barnardsville firefighters while he was out here helping to close off the bridge. He says this area is considered the main entrance into the community, and now it's closed off until DOT crews are able to safely take a look at it. He says they prepared for the storm the best they could, but that it will now take a village to get everything cleaned up.
Firefighter:
Just take it a day at a time. Well, you know, we're just encouraging people to not get near the water because there's a lot of bankss that are washed out and eroded out. You know, it could break off. So just hang tight till the water goes down and, you know, just stay safe.
Taylor Thompson:
He says this is the worst flood he's seen in his lifetime, which is echoed by people in a nearby community. One man who lives in the Forks of Ivy says in his 38 years there, he has never seen it this bad.
Webb:
It's pitiful when you say your neighbor's house is about to get washed away. It's pitiful.
Taylor Thompson:
Right now, Webb says he's just hopeful to eventually get his power back on, and for the wind to die down, to be able to start the cleanup process. And we're now off of Hobson Branch Road. I want you to take a look over here at this building. At one point, you can see this water line where water was literally almost halfway up, right here on this building. And walking over here, when we first arrived on scene, this road was impassable. Water was completely filled up to at least half of it, and that had receded from what it was earlier today when residents told me the whole thing was completely covered. One resident I spoke with also said that her father lives in this house just back here behind these trees, which was completely flooded earlier .Luckily, they were able to get their father out. But and the devastation from this flood is going to take weeks, maybe even months to keep cleaning up. And they were telling me that in all their time of living here, they have never seen anything this devastating. Reporting in the Forks of Ivy community. I'm Taylor Thompson, News 13.
You guys. We are out here in North Buncombe County and Bernardsville. I just want you to take a look at this devastation here. We're on Sugar Creek Road, the bridge right here. I mean, it is just flowing and it's actually come down from what it was earlier. Earlier today, this entire bridge everywhere. It was just covered with running water. If you take a look down here, I was actually just talking with one of the Barnardsville firefighters, and he's telling me this is the remnants of a mobile home. This is what's left of somebody's home down here. I mean, the way he described it is that this is going to be devastating for the entire Barnardsville community. I spoke with one of the Barnardsville firefighters while he was out here helping to close off the bridge. He says this area is considered the main entrance into the community, and now it's closed off until DOT crews are able to safely take a look at it. He says they prepared for the storm the best they could, but that it will now take a village to get everything cleaned up.
Firefighter:
Just take it a day at a time. Well, you know, we're just encouraging people to not get near the water because there's a lot of bankss that are washed out and eroded out. You know, it could break off. So just hang tight till the water goes down and, you know, just stay safe.
Taylor Thompson:
He says this is the worst flood he's seen in his lifetime, which is echoed by people in a nearby community. One man who lives in the Forks of Ivy says in his 38 years there, he has never seen it this bad.
Webb:
It's pitiful when you say your neighbor's house is about to get washed away. It's pitiful.
Taylor Thompson:
Right now, Webb says he's just hopeful to eventually get his power back on, and for the wind to die down, to be able to start the cleanup process. And we're now off of Hobson Branch Road. I want you to take a look over here at this building. At one point, you can see this water line where water was literally almost halfway up, right here on this building. And walking over here, when we first arrived on scene, this road was impassable. Water was completely filled up to at least half of it, and that had receded from what it was earlier today when residents told me the whole thing was completely covered. One resident I spoke with also said that her father lives in this house just back here behind these trees, which was completely flooded earlier .Luckily, they were able to get their father out. But and the devastation from this flood is going to take weeks, maybe even months to keep cleaning up. And they were telling me that in all their time of living here, they have never seen anything this devastating. Reporting in the Forks of Ivy community. I'm Taylor Thompson, News 13.
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WLOS-TV Asheville, “Flooding in Barnardsville,” Come Hell or High Water Community Memory Project, accessed August 11, 2026, https://helenehistory.omeka.net/items/show/1414.