In the next split-second, they both knew the sounds below them weren’t coming from the heavens. They didn’t know it then, but those sounds outside were the sound of millions of gallons of flood waters, raining down hell along the river’s path through Lake Lure.
“We started to hear a lot of noise,” Susan said, “Rumbling. Rumbling – wasn’t thunder. What’s this weird rumbling?”
“Trees, falling rocks… so it got a little bit frightening at that point,” Mike said.
“We said we’d better get to higher ground, just in case. So, we grabbed the cat, a couple of bottles of water, and a bag of chips; like we were really thinking. And got in our cars and drove up the driveway, which was probably 30 feet higher, and parked in the cul-de-sac and parked our cars against the mountainside,” Mike said.
In the next split-second, they both knew the sounds below them weren’t coming from the heavens. They didn’t know it then, but those sounds outside were the sound of millions of gallons of flood waters, raining down hell along the river’s path through Lake Lure.
“We started to hear a lot of noise,” Susan said, “Rumbling. Rumbling – wasn’t thunder. What’s this weird rumbling?”
“Trees, falling rocks… so it got a little bit frightening at that point,” Mike said.
“We said we’d better get to higher ground, just in case. So, we grabbed the cat, a couple of bottles of water, and a bag of chips; like we were really thinking. And got in our cars and drove up the driveway, which was probably 30 feet higher, and parked in the cul-de-sac and parked our cars against the mountainside,” Mike said.
In the next split-second, they both knew the sounds below them weren’t coming from the heavens. They didn’t know it then, but those sounds outside were the sound of millions of gallons of flood waters, raining down hell along the river’s path through Lake Lure.
“We started to hear a lot of noise,” Susan said, “Rumbling. Rumbling – wasn’t thunder. What’s this weird rumbling?”
“Trees, falling rocks… so it got a little bit frightening at that point,” Mike said.
“We said we’d better get to higher ground, just in case. So, we grabbed the cat, a couple of bottles of water, and a bag of chips; like we were really thinking. And got in our cars and drove up the driveway, which was probably 30 feet higher, and parked in the cul-de-sac and parked our cars against the mountainside,” Mike said.
From some 80 feet above the river, the Coffeys watched the earth that held their mountainside home disappear, and everything they had there washed away with the raging flood waters below
From some 80 feet above the river, the Coffeys watched the earth that held their mountainside home disappear, and everything they had there washed away with the raging flood waters below
From some 80 feet above the river, the Coffeys watched the earth that held their mountainside home disappear, and everything they had there washed away with the raging flood waters below