The Storm That Drowned the Appalachians — Helene 2024

⚡ WHEN THE WATER COMES — FLOOD PREPAREDNESS GEAR Portable power station (keeps phones and the fridge alive): https://amzn.to/4wMUwMo NOAA emergency weather radio (the warning still reaches you when the power is out): https://amzn.to/4hWwrOk Portable water filter (for when the tap goes under a boil-water notice): https://amzn.to/4bDD6ZZ As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. These are affiliate links — they cost you nothing extra and help keep this channel running. On September 26th, 2024, the strongest hurricane ever recorded in Florida's Big Bend made landfall on the Gulf Coast. But it wasn't the wind on the coast that killed the most people. It was the water that came for the mountains – rain that fell on ground already soaked days before the storm arrived, funneled by narrow Appalachian valleys into walls of water that drowned towns more than 500 miles from where Helene came ashore. What followed became the deadliest hurricane to strike the American mainland since Katrina. For copyright and business inquiries, contact us at: [email protected] Music by Epidemic Sound.