A couple driving through the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina narrowly avoided being swept away by a mudslide triggered by the remnants of Hurricane Helene.
Alan and Kelly Keffer captured the moment a mudslide clipped the back of their vehicle on their dashboard camera.
Dashcam view of a couple narrowly avoiding a mudslide on a dirt road in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains during Hurricane Helene. Storyful
Just before the mudslide hit the highway. Storyful“Whoa!” Alan said off-camera.
The couple managed to get past the mudslide uninjured.
Behind them, a few semi-trucks and other smaller vehicles stopped, while others pulled over and parked on the side of Interstate 40.
Debris including rocks collapsed onto the interstate, rising higher than the semi-trucks just behind the Keffer’s car and over the cement barrier on the side of the road.
Dashcam view out the back of a car totally obscured by a mudslide on Interstate 40. StoryfulMud splattered across their windshield, obscuring the couple’s view of anything behind their vehicle.
I-40 was one of several interstates closed in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee following numerous disasters triggered by the devastating storm.
Buncombe County saw the bulk of the destruction in North Carolina. A majority of the damage — and death toll — comes from Asheville, NC, where the Lake Lure Dam was compromised during the storm.
