Tropical depression Fred

ponykilr said:
Question.

My buddy Joe lived in Candler since he was a boy and is my age now. He sold out and moved last year to Alabama because it’s red red red and has fantastic fishing…plus he gets to kill big rattlesnakes daily.

I know some about the area, it has flooded many times in the past. Was this event worse as far as conditions or worse due to population density increase or?

@Loganwayne showed where his house had flooded much deeper in a previous flood.
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I was born in Candler and lived there about 35 years.
Aside from localized cloudbursts and three hurricanes back to back to back in 2 weeks in 2004, we really never had widespread flooding. Candler is a bit less of a valley town like Canton and Cruso. The issue at Cruso was a once in a lifetime thing. There was a literal wall of water between 10-20 feet tall that rushed down the head of the Pigeon River. There was simply nowhere to go and no time to do so. A local on the news last night watched the wall coming at him from up the valley. He ran and ducked on the downstream side of the gas station where he was. The water rushed waist deep around the building before going OVER TOP of the building. We're talking 12' tall building. There was water marks on the top of the roof, so he was accurate.
If you saw the area you wouldn't think it could ever flood since it is at a pretty good elevation and angle. But as @Loganwayne said, the landslide caused a mountain version of a tsunami, so to speak.
 
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the river in this area is typically 15-20 ft wide less than knee deep in most places beside deep pools, you could pretty much fish the river from jumping from rock to rock and never get wet. lots of large boulders from basketball sized to size of trucks. some of the big rocks ive seen pictures of them 20-30 ft into fields.
 
Loganwayne said:
the river in this area is typically 15-20 ft wide less than knee deep in most places beside deep pools, you could pretty much fish the river from jumping from rock to rock and never get wet. lots of large boulders from basketball sized to size of trucks. some of the big rocks ive seen pictures of them 20-30 ft into fields.
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Yeah I’m still trying to process the total devastation that I seen Sunday in Cruso. The large slide a few hundred yards above the fire department is an unbelievable amount of material that came down the mountain and into the river.
 
So what caused the landslide in the first place? Sounds like that (the landslide) was the major precipitating event that caused everything else
 
RatLabGuy said:
So what caused the landslide in the first place? Sounds like that (the landslide) was the major precipitating event that caused everything else
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Uh... Rain.
 
Wow

Jody Treadway said:
A local on the news last night watched the wall coming at him from up the valley. He ran and ducked on the downstream side of the gas station where he was. The water rushed waist deep around the building before going OVER TOP of the building. We're talking 12' tall building. There was water marks on the top of the roof, so he was accurate.
If you saw the area you wouldn't think it could ever flood since it is at a pretty good elevation and angle. But as @Loganwayne said, the landslide caused a mountain version of a tsunami, so to speak.
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Did you happen to know Joe Lassiter who worked at the water treatment plant?
 
Jody Treadway said:
Mr and Mrs Lassiter's son?
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I don't really watch the news (or obviously the forum too closely either) and didn't know anything about the whole situation until @jeepinmatt mentioned this thread to me the other day. Crazy. Just goes to show how quickly and unexpectedly it can all be taken away. I hope @Loganwayne and the other folks in this thread get help from insurance and some of those high $$$ government programs.
 
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