A living nightmare: Helene survivors describe landslides as geologists expand database

BUNCOMBE COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — Helene’s devastating rains caused more than 2,000 landslides across North Carolina. Fairview resident Rick Frizsell lived through multiple slides during the Sept. 27 storm that trapped him, his wife Dena, and their adult son Tanner in their home in Echo Valley Estates.

“All of a sudden, the house started vibrating,” Frizsell said. “You could feel it like an earthquake or tremor, and my wife said, ‘What is that?'”

“It was a feeling that the mountain was coming down, and you’re just vulnerable,” Dena Frizsell, Rick’s wife, said…

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