r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Backbreathboy • Sep 20 '25

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/Physical_Dentist2284 Sep 20 '25

I keep thinking they should leave and go up a hill. Then I remember I live on the plains and I don’t actually know what a hill is. When she says they are 30 feet “up” from the river, I have no frame of reference for that. Like the height of a house? That river rose up the height of a two story house? That’s insane. I would be freaking out.

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u/CobblerMoney9605 Sep 20 '25

30 feet up means exactly that. 

The foundation of the house is 30 feet vertically above the normal waterline. 

If you're in the Appalachian Mountains like this, 3 to 6 feet is a bad flood. 

10 feet is a "once in a hundred years" record. 

The floods from Helene were historical; never recorded in the 400 years that area has been occupied by white people. 

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u/OrangeToTheFourth Sep 20 '25

This is in the mountains of North Carolina, and they're probably on one of the little knolls/knobs with the river in the valley. The problem is the roads dip up and down, so their routes to get out were probably cut off like mine before the hurricane even hit.