The
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Volume 75, Issue 4
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Sept. 25, 2009
Brevard sees 50-year storm
Forget Bell's Beach, the 50-year storm hit brevard last weekend and sent
river surf up to astronomically high levels
Signs
of flood
throughout
Davidson
by Marc Newton
Photo Editor
photo courtesy M. Newton
Trees dam
up the
Davidson
River
photo courtesy M. Newton
Heavy rains pummeled Transylvania County last weekend through Monday. Though no injuries or major property damage was re
corded, many members of our community were left with heavy home leakage and power outages.
Rosman was hit the hardest on Monday when dozens of community members had to be evacuated. Another area where people had
to be evacuated was the community in Pisgah Forest on Ecusta Road. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, floods
in the French Broad rose up to 22 feet which is five feet above flood level in Rosman.
In the southern part of the county, the gauge showed the French Broad miming at 16 feet, a level much higher than usual. The average
water speed on Monday was 9,050 cfs (cubic feet per second).
In Rosman, it reached 14,050 cfs. Robert Twomey, District Conservationist for both Transylvania and Henderson County, mentioned
that he had to help evacuate people in Pisgah Forest and witnessed crop fields flooded in five feet of water
It is too early to assess the damage to property and the rivers because the water hasn’t fully subsided (as of Tuesday September 22nd).
What is apparent, however, is that countless trees have fallen along the Davidson River and erosion has occurred in many places along
the rivers and roads in Pisgah National Forest.
In this issue...
NEWS:
SGABeat 2
Ninjas! 2
Are you down witli tlie siclness? 2
OPINION:
Do you lile big butts? Can you lie?... 3
ARTS & LIFE:
‘Jennifer's Body” review 6
Flat Rock Music Festival preview 5
ODDS AND ENDS:
American Hero 8
Sign of the Times 8
Your Horoscope 8
photo courtesy M. Newton
Ruby Throated Hummingbirds
enjoy the first glimpse of sun
in days outside the Pisgah
Forest Ranger Station on
highway 278. The station is
one of many locations in the
area that lost power from the
heavy rains over the weekend
through Monday
Looking Glass Falls, one of
the most popular waterfalls
in Western North Carolina
at high water following the
torrential rains the area
received in the past week.