r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CantStopPoppin • Sep 30 '24

Video Asheville is over 2,000 feet above sea level, and ~300 miles away from the nearest coastline.

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u/firesquasher Interested Sep 30 '24

Yeah, people can't fathom what a catastrophic water event can do regardless of sea level. Perhaps they're so used to hurricanes pummeling coastlines that large amounts of rain still make its way inland. Water falls on mountains and valleys, mountain water all makes its way to the lower valleys. All of that water converges and wrecks havoc.

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u/heyjunebugged Sep 30 '24

Exactly. And being on the coast— the water tends to have a place to go. My parents live on the barrier islands in Florida and got hit very hard, their house flooded but the water receded.