Flooded Roads
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Flooded Roads
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WLOS-TV news footage from Hendersonville Road, showing huge fallen tree, flash flooded streets, and downed power lines. Kimberly King reporting.
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English
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1 digital video recording (01:44)
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1:44
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Kimberly King:
Hours after Helene has come through Asheville, this is now a major story. Huge trees like this pine tree, which is rotted, you can hear it's hollow basically crashing right across Hendersonville Road, a major thoroughfare north and south into downtown Asheville. Drivers farther south on Hendersonville Road on the street helping clear debris of treetops covering lanes. This is the tree I was standing at on Hendersonville Road. Crews are overwhelmed with work all over town. This car further down submerged in water. Again, this is South Hendersonville Road. Contract crews are in from South Carolina sandbagging.
Speaker:
My husband, he works with the company and they were putting sandbags out at a couple of the Bank of Americas that they were scared were going to flood and—
Kimberly King:
They didn't work.
Speaker:
No, not on one of the locations it didn't, but now we're trying to get home.
Kimberly King:
The flooding is significant in all areas of Asheville and drivers like this in trucks moving through the mud. But I also have to tell you people are out driving, crossing flash flooded areas. Many we found out curious to see damage, but we have to tell you trees are saturated and can still fall and kill someone. It's best to be safe where you are, watch the coverage from the safety of a shelter or your home. There are some cell service companies that are working and people are actually having to borrow their friends or relatives' phones to get communication to people they need to. And you can see what's going on here. This is a power line that's down from this huge pine tree as crews are expected to work all weekend to get this cleared and power restored. Reporting along Hendersonville Road, Kimberly King News 13.
Hours after Helene has come through Asheville, this is now a major story. Huge trees like this pine tree, which is rotted, you can hear it's hollow basically crashing right across Hendersonville Road, a major thoroughfare north and south into downtown Asheville. Drivers farther south on Hendersonville Road on the street helping clear debris of treetops covering lanes. This is the tree I was standing at on Hendersonville Road. Crews are overwhelmed with work all over town. This car further down submerged in water. Again, this is South Hendersonville Road. Contract crews are in from South Carolina sandbagging.
Speaker:
My husband, he works with the company and they were putting sandbags out at a couple of the Bank of Americas that they were scared were going to flood and—
Kimberly King:
They didn't work.
Speaker:
No, not on one of the locations it didn't, but now we're trying to get home.
Kimberly King:
The flooding is significant in all areas of Asheville and drivers like this in trucks moving through the mud. But I also have to tell you people are out driving, crossing flash flooded areas. Many we found out curious to see damage, but we have to tell you trees are saturated and can still fall and kill someone. It's best to be safe where you are, watch the coverage from the safety of a shelter or your home. There are some cell service companies that are working and people are actually having to borrow their friends or relatives' phones to get communication to people they need to. And you can see what's going on here. This is a power line that's down from this huge pine tree as crews are expected to work all weekend to get this cleared and power restored. Reporting along Hendersonville Road, Kimberly King News 13.
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WLOS-TV Asheville, “Flooded Roads,” Come Hell or High Water Community Memory Project, accessed August 11, 2026, https://helenehistory.omeka.net/items/show/1417.