Hurricane Helene thread - Not a football thread but y’all be safe *keep politics, conspiracy theories, and and tinderbox squabbles out of this*

[LinvilleGorge]

I'm headed back to Linville. Gonna try to find an aid station along the way to bring as much as I can but oddly every church I've driven by is doing nothing for their community.

A lot of folks still stuck in their houses with no way out and a lot of flooded homes at least needing the saturated sheetrock ripped out. I have my dad coming with his contractor's van with a lot more tools.

[GEM]

I sat in my truck and watched 31 inches of rain fall in Busick NC. Hiked out to Marion Saturday. Highway 80 is just wiped off the map with mud slides. I think I was one of the first outsider through this area. Unbelievable damage,houses gone, people were still missing, people in house hurt. But these people were offering water food to me. I about cried seeing it all. I have felt guilty all week. My little cabin is ok and feel very fortunate. We dropped a lot of stuff to Speedway for delivery. 

[jayboogieman]

 

[jayboogieman]

 

[Anybodyhome]

Was in Durham yesterday talking with some folks, native NC folks, and they have absolutely no clue just how remote some areas of western NC are. We may never know the real toll on human life this storm took for months, if at all.

As a former resident of Asheville, it's difficult to look at some of the damage without thinking of the smaller communities not located in the population center. Edneyville, Gerton, Fairview. Some of those smaller communities are only accessed by small roads to begin with.

Eric Rudolph eluded the FBI for 5 years living in the woods of Western NC, if that gives you any idea.

[OHYO]

2 hours ago, GEM said:

I sat in my truck and watched 31 inches of rain fall in Busick NC. Hiked out to Marion Saturday. Highway 80 is just wiped off the map with mud slides. I think I was one of the first outsider through this area. Unbelievable damage,houses gone, people were still missing, people in house hurt. But these people were offering water food to me. I about cried seeing it all. I have felt guilty all week. My little cabin is ok and feel very fortunate. We dropped a lot of stuff to Speedway for delivery. 

Love Busick. People up S Toe are survivors, you’re in good hands. Stay safe!

Edited October 4, 2024 by OHYO

[OHYO]

If you’re looking to help and need direction on what and where to go Biltmore Baptist in Asheville has a coordinated plan.

[LinvilleGorge]

Dropped off a load of goods in Newland. Linked up with Samaritan's Purse and they needed help in a neighborhood that I knew. It's all rich people's vacation homes. I'm like nah, if you have somewhere to go focusing on people's primary residences that they're blocked on or uninhabitable that's what I'm here to do. If the focus is vacation homes I have plenty of poo to do at my own house. They completely understood so I rolled out. I'm going to check in on Black Mountain and Swannanoa tomorrow but honestly it seems like everywhere that's accessible by vehicle has an overabundance of volunteers. If somebody wants to helicopter my ass in with tools to inaccessible places I'll eat a bunch of Dramamine and go but other than that looks like I'm about to shift gears and focus on my own stuff.

[Panthers Fan 69]

3 hours ago, jayboogieman said:

 

Up here today. I can attest to this Twitter post. If you have a rough supplies, they authorities will escort you.  Only 20 minutes outside of Boone, Vilas is a war zone.   @LinvilleGorgewhat are you seeing up here today?

[Panthers Fan 69]

Apartments have been completely gutted in Boone and there are trash piles 8 feet tall. 

[Floppin]

18 minutes ago, Panthers Fan 69 said:

Up here today. I can attest to this Twitter post. If you have a rough supplies, they authorities will escort you.  Only 20 minutes outside of Boone, Vilas is a war zone.   @LinvilleGorgewhat are you seeing up here today?

I was in Vilas earlier today. Woof

[LinvilleGorge]

30 minutes ago, Panthers Fan 69 said:

Up here today. I can attest to this Twitter post. If you have a rough supplies, they authorities will escort you.  Only 20 minutes outside of Boone, Vilas is a war zone.   @LinvilleGorgewhat are you seeing up here today?

What are they needing? I could go tomorrow 

[Cullenator]

Since someone got this kicked out of the main forum...

 

Anyone who believes LG did something out of the "goodness of his heart" hasnt been following LG very long.

 

 

[Floppin]

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.