Floppin

Coker is legit.

Hold on playa. You think people don't swim at the beach?

But if you've suffered anything that's claimable with FEMA you'll get that $750 immediately. Now you can probably do it if you haven't but when the FEMA assessors come and look at your stuff they'll probably fine you and add it to your taxes or something.

Yeah. That's what I had my guys who lost their homes do. They got 750 direct deposited in like 3 hrs after the application. They didn't meet with the actual FEMA guy until this Sunday which was 5 days later and he did the actual damage assessment then. They'll get their actual disbursement in like 7-10 days

The $750 is an immediate approval for just immediate food and supplies or whatever. It's not your FEMA disbursement.

Yeah I mean. He told me about that before it became the Internet rumor and it makes me think it started in the emergency response community. He WAS coordinating the trucks but turns out it was for something else. He just allowed himself to connect the dots by suggestion alone. I mean I've seen and smelled bodies. I watched the pull the girl that was smashed up against the bridge pilings in front of my shop out of the water the day before yesterday. I've been in the area every day with my equipment and people since Saturday of last week. But tragedy makes for rumor and on and on

Yeah I'm not discounting what you said but he specifically told me about bodies at the Ingles because that's what was relayed to him by another emergency responder.

Yep. It's crazy the rumor mill. Even my friend from highschool who's an Avery county EMS that I mentioned earlier on the thread who told me about bodies in spruce pine that he was having to coordinate refrigeration trucks for fell victim to the gossip mill among the literal rescue workers. Turns out the trucks were for medical storage and there were no bodies.

I haven't personally but I know lots of people out there doing work clearing roads and trying to get to houses that are still cut off. If you want me to try to see if any of them would like some additional volunteers, I'll reach out in the morning. But I'm about to lose cell phone service for the next couple hours.

The only parts a 19e that I'm aware of that are fully closed is a stretch between elk Park and banner elk and then where it crosses The North toe at powder Mill Creek road

Apparently 88 was only closed briefly, just happened to be during the time I tried to get out there. Gonna head back out again

Been trying to get out to the Sutherland area. Where Hoskins Fork meets the North Fork. I spent a large portion of my childhood in a run down farm house with no refrigerator but a spring fed hold house and one wood burning stove on Oscar Rd. There's people I care about a lot that I haven't heard from yet out there. Couldn't make it through hwy 88 to get there.

I was in Vilas earlier today. Woof

Both of my employees that I posted about losing their homes earlier in the thread were able to get FEMA temporary housing assistance and have been put up in a hotel for free for 30 days minimum that was immediately granted no questions asked. While their additional FEMA compensation is assessed.

Did the thread get temporarily hidden or something?

Damn, that's what i was afraid of but also expecting to hear unfortunately

Man unless you choose not to, no matter how far out you go you can get access to Internet and all the towns, even small ones, have modern conveniences. It's not like deliverance out there except for very few areas

Cool thanks

The Avery/Watauga county like bisects the area I'm talking about so still could be

Lol nonsense take.

Old Beech. Like Jack Tales Beech. Up above elk River and whatnot. You can access the area from either 321 going towards Tennessee at trash can falls, coming down from the town of Beech MTN or off a road at the Red Barn off 194 outside of banner elk. There's hundreds of houses down in there and I haven't heard from anyone

The pulled a body out from below the 421 bridge at Bamboo Rd bridge yesterday afternoon. I could smell it going to and from my shop thati showed pictures of earlier. Was just hoping it was an animal. It wasn't

Any idea what part? Im still trying to contact a decent amount of people that I haven't heard from. I have a bunch of people that I care about on the back side of Beech MTN up above trash can falls that nobody can get to yet that I'm aware of. In the flood in 2004 I couldn't get within 5 miles of their house and my buddy rode a 4-wheeler through the woods to get to me.

To add to what Linville said; the storm did stall of a sort. The precursor frontal boundary stalled and was fed moisture from the storm it rained hard starting Wednesday night and didn't stop and then the storm swept through on Friday

So are mine and I've seen them in places. There's national guard in the backside of snake MTN on the zionville area near my buddies horse ranch and it's in the middle of fuging no where