oh man... landslides just go hand to hand with flooding and just part of flooding here in Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. My county has some of the worst landslide records and the constant building they do and the fact the county doesn't really do enough to discourage people from building and man-made activity on slopes is disturbing.
"The USGS has published a preliminary report on landslides triggered across western North Carolina, northern South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and parts of southern Virginia by Hurricane Helene in September 2024. Over 2,000 failures were triggered by up to c. 700 mm of rainfall in a 72 hour period."
"Landslides are most common in the mountain region of North Carolina because of steep slopes. The Piedmont and Coastal Plain regions also have landslides that are commonly related to human activity such as making a road cut too steep."
I got people above me building in area deemed by the "US Department of Interior" to be landslide hazard area..The US Department of Interior uses all this technology and gives this maps online to public and my county doesn't pay any attention and lets people grade and build anyway.. that's why there were like 2000 plus landslides in NC during Hurricane Hellene .. the landslide makes the flooding worse and vice versa
