Monday, August 17, 2026

Death toll in the Mountains: Despair will be larger than any previous U.S. Hurricane

David Hucks

death toll in the mountains

The death toll in the mountains covering NC, TN, and GA will rank as one of the highest ever recorded in US history.

As reports will show, many died instantly in their cars and homes as a surge of 40 mph water, mud, and debris rushed down the hills catching them completely unaware.

The following texts, about the death toll in the mountains, were sent to us from a highly trusted source previously very connected to the Asheville Police. Saw a local person who works at the funeral home business who said all hospitals are full. Funeral homes that have body storage facilities are full and they have at least one big old warehouse that has folks stacked up in them. The main stream news services are full of shit.

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Saw a local person who works at the funeral home business who said all hospitals are full. Funeral homes that have body storage facilities are full and they have at least one big old warehouse that has folks stacked up in them. The main stream news services are full of shit.

 “The situations in cities are bad but rural areas are completely farked up. But some amazing folks are doing some amazing work. Unfortunately the government help has arrived and are making things worse in several ways, go figure.” 

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The situations in cities are bad but rural areas are completely farked up. But some amazing folks are doing some amazing work. Unfortunately the government help has arrived and are making things worse in several ways, go figure 

Death Toll in the Mountains water avalanche formula

The majority of U.S. citizens are familiar with the dam breach that occurred at Lake Lure. However, the dam breaches in East Tennessee, which flowed into the nearby mountains of North Carolina downstream, are not as widely recognized.

As such, the death toll in the mountains will be extremely high. According to reports, a minimum of 1,500 to 3,000 individuals perished immediately while they were in what they believed to be the safety of their vehicles or residences.

“Communities were wiped off the map,” North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said.

Stormy weather soaked Asheville and neighboring towns in western North Carolina prior to the arrival of Helene, adding to the complexity of the situation. Subsequently, Helene deluged certain areas of southern Appalachia with rainfall surpassing 2 feet of water.

The breach of the dams occurred due to the combination of excessive advance rainfall and the impact of Hurricane Helene.

death toll in the mountains

We can make estimates from Bernoulli’s Principle, a crude estimate for the initial flow velocity of those waters from a Saskatchewan breached damn in 1967.

However, The Great Smoky Mountains are much higher than the Saskatchewan mountains. 

The Great Smoky Mountains, reaching approximately 6,643 feet in height, form a portion of the Appalachian Mountains and rank among the tallest ranges within the chain. Notably, this mountainous region boasts numerous peaks surpassing 6,000 feet, with Kuwohi standing as Tennessee’s highest peak at precisely 6,643 feet.

The Cypress Hills in Saskatchewan reach an elevation of 4,567 feet, making it the highest point in the province, but not nearly as tall as the Great Smokies.

Based on the provided figures, the wall of water swept away homes in Western NC, descending at an estimated average speed of 40 miles per hour.

The 40 mile per hour wall of water and debris destroyed interstates, secondary roads, buildings, and vehicles in minutes. This is precisely why the death toll in the mountains is projected to be worse than Katrina.

Scroll to bottom of page to see the calculations on how mountain storm waters are estimated and why the death toll in the mountains will be high.

Death Toll in the Mountains – sadly the politics

Asheville, a predominantly Democrat party-voting liberal city, has welcomed former President Obama on multiple occasions. It is one of the cities in North Carolina that contributes to the state’s purple political landscape.

Politics play a significant role in this catastrophe for precisely this reason. Despite it not being ideal, it is crucial for those in authority to delay the release of death estimates and the misery index until November 5th as the state is a key swing state.

The influence of social media greatly affects the inability of the Harris’ campaign to control and manage this situation effectively. The total death toll in the mountains numbers are likely to get out sooner than Harris would prefer.

A resident of Western North Carolina shares a chilling account of personally hearing a representative from FEMA stating that they have no plans to bring in refrigerated trucks for deceased individuals who perished during the death toll in the mountains catastrophe.

Because the death toll in the mountains is already known to be high, FEMA plans to retain deceased individuals within hospitals and medical facilities to prevent their images from being broadcasted on news networks.

Hiding the death toll in the mountains is a clear national strategy, say NC residents.

Drones are not allowed fly or photo damages to the area, nor show images of dead bodies.

A Tik Tok influencer shares that President Biden says, “Here’s the point, I am going to be asking the American people to continue fund these people. It’s not going to be one hit and it’s over. Biden never once mentions the death toll in the mountains during this interview with the press.

FEMA has claimed exclusive booking of all hotel rooms, leaving victims who lost their homes unable to secure lodging, as mentioned in another post on social media.

As the death toll in the mountains continues to rise, this above official post to United States Secretary of Homeland Security head Alejandro Mayorkas from FEMA whistleblowers is self-explanatory.

Vice President Kamala Harriss – $750 per victim from FEMA?

Local residents are expressing their dissatisfaction with Vice President Kamala Harris due to her provision of a sole payment of $750 from FEMA to victims. While FEMA has allocated more than $2,500 per month for housing assistance to undocumented immigrants, the government has also recently disbursed an additional $200 billion to Ukraine.

Key Example from a TIK TOK Influencer

@garymiller91 $750 for hurricane victims #hurricane #Rebuild #Joe,Biden, #KamalaHarris, #FYP ♬ I Got 5 On It – Tethered Mix from US – Michael Abels & Luniz

President Biden, upon immediately departing from the Appalachians, expresses uncertainty regarding the storm inquired about by a reporter. After recollecting the details, he affirms that the local residents are experiencing a great deal of satisfaction.

As the death toll in the mountains climbs, Social media influencer Catturd posts a NY Times article.

Conservative media remains vocal on X. The expenditure of $1.4 million by the Kamala Harris team on immigrants has been swiftly highlighted by the NY Post, gaining significant traction in the Appalachia region.

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WATER AVALANCHE MODEL: Example Gardiner Dam breach in Saskatchewan of June 21, 1967

Where: vinitial=2ghdam−−−−−−√=128km/hvinitial=2ghdam=128km/hwhere g=9.81m/s2g=9.81m/s2 is the acceleration due to gravity and hdam=64mhdam=64m is the Gardiner Dam height.

For dam breaks studied in “A simple method to estimate inundation due to dam break”, the fastest arrival time of the flood peak 62 miles downstream appears to be about 7 hours. In the 1923 Gleno dam failure, the water took about 45 minutes to sweep down a 13.0488 miles long , very steep valley with a vertical drop of 1250 m (i.e. about 30 km/h).

We can also try to roughly estimate the speed (VV) of the flood waters using the Gauckler–Manning formula for flow in an open channel:

V=knRh2/3S1/2V=knRh2/3S1/2

Where kk is a unit conversion unit equal to one if working in SI units, and SS is the slope of the channel. Rh=A/PRh=A/P is the hydraulic radius of a channel with wet cross-sectional area AA and wetted perimeter PP. The Gauckler–Manning Coefficient nn parameterizes the flow resistance of the channel, i.e the water flows faster for smaller nn. Values can range from n=0.01n=0.01 for a smooth straight concrete channel to n=0.2n=0.2 for a floodplain in summer with dense willows or similar bush.

To do this properly would (at the very least) require integrating the Gauckler–Manning formula along the river, taking into account the local geography to continuously evaluate RhRh and nn. Instead, we will make some very crude order-of-magnitude estimates.

The Gardiner Dam is 5000 m wide and 64 m tall, so if it failed completely we’d at first have A=320000m2A=320000m2 and P=5128mP=5128m. As the water spread and flowed though the downstream valley and floodplains, AA and PP would constantly change. Looking at the local topography, perhaps a flood width of 15000 m and height of 21 m might be a plausible guess. For nn, a guess of 0.06 might be reasonable, e.g “light brush and trees, in summer“, but this could be off by a factor of two in either direction.

When the dam initially breaks, the initial burst of water should generate a wave in the river. This can travel faster than the water flow, but since it is a perturbation of the water already in the river, it can’t be very high. A shallow-water gravity wave has a velocity v=gd−−√v=gd, where dd is the depth of the river. The monitored depth of the South Saskatchewan River at Saskatoon is 2-3 m, which seems consistent with the 11 foot height of the Saskatoon Weir.

If we assume d=3md=3m as the average pre-flood depth of the river from the dam to Saskatoon, this wave will propagate at 12.4274 miles per hour.

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Based on this scientific model, the death toll in the mountains was caused by a likely avalanche of water reaching 40 miles per hour.

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