“Western North Carolina is destroyed. Hell on earth. I spent last night chainsawing fallen logs on a mountain so people could get in. Before that we were hunting for survivors in (town) and delivering water to the fire department. Got a family out today…”
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🏡 Helping Community 🏘️
—reports from a volunteer I know
This was life as I knew it as a child; everyone helped everyone else in time of need. There were/are saints everywhere, and bless you for being one of them. God bless all who are helping. MAGA!
I’m overseas but I will pass this on to the person who wrote this report and took the photo. Thanks.
Preppers were right.
Need a Go-Bag.
Need a Bug-Out Plan.
Primary Plan
Alternate Plan
Contingency Plan
Emergency Plan
Food
Community
Guns
Mobility
Communication
First Aid
Preppers are stuck too, however, because the entire area was smashed with sudden walls of water and tornadoes, in an area the hurricane was not predicted to go. But yeah, having those things, if you can hang onto them in a storm or when your house washes away, is a good thing.
I have both been evacuated quickly, and been stuck for multiple days on end with no power, etc, over the last few years.
Having a go bad AND a trapped plan is imperative. We had no electricity, ran out of backup generator fuel, and eventually wood in the middle of winter with no way out. It was the good will of a neighbor we could get to that saved us.
Plan, plan for the plan to go wrong, then plan some more......
Agreed. I was living in ground zero for the freak hurricane that was Andrew, the only one ever recorded to have GAINED strength after making landfall... which then proceeded to travel in a perfect East-to-West path across Florida. I was inland almost halfway at the time, so beyond a bunch of rain, we weren't expecting much, but being Floridians, we had batteries and water and nonperishables for a few days. We didn't even own a chainsaw. IIRC, the power was out in our area for almost two weeks, and anyone who relied on government was severely let down. Now, we're out "in the woods" and while not self-reliant, we're a lot more connected with neighbors and much more prepped than ever. No, we don't think either Andrew or Katrina or Helene were purely natural events. Hopefully one day we'll learn all the truth.
Yep. I lived thru Katrina. Went thru the eye. It was bad. Prayers for those in harms way
I will continue to watch your progress with great interest as I do with other handshakes that ask rhetorical questions that they obviously know the answer to.
G'morning DJ, check this out. FIFTY YEAR OLD DOCS SHOW US GOVT HAS ABILITY TO MANIPULATE HURRICANES. https://principia-scientific.com/50-year-old-docs-show-us-govt-has-ability-to-manipulate-hurricanes/
That's the problem with the NHC and their stupid cone with the center track line. People just look at that line and they don't realize that anything in the cone is at risk.
They felt they could withstand the storm
Wow. Thanks the volunteer for me. Bless be.
the corrupt cabal that runs most of the country aren't America, you and your friend are. God bless you and all of your brothers.
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i used to view that as facing me and saluting from the wrong side. but it's the right hand if you're standing in ranks behind him. and you're saluting too.
u/#ridetofreedom
Can you tell us NC people what org your friend is working with? I want to steer donations to effective groups, NOT red cross.
Saw some memes on FB saying to only donate to the red cross. To not do anything but that. Utterly ridiculous and useless.
Asking where he recommends donating. I'll update this comment when I get an answer. (Edit: he provided this link: https://bit.ly/2024-flood-relief )
Highly appreciated! There's been no official anything from government nor church orgs. Individual churches I think are the only groups getting out there, but I only attend one, that hasn't gotten their junk together.
His team is a well-organized Russian Orthodox parish in Tennessee. The answer I received to my question was this donation link: https://bit.ly/2024-flood-relief
I’ve seen many local churches are getting donations together and taking it themselves. I’m in Eastern NC. I’ve also seen posts from officials in the disaster area saying don’t bring anything until they say it’s ok. I think it’s because they can’t let people into an unsafe area and possibly don’t have the people to handle donations. I can’t get a clear explanation on this.
This parish is what the volunteer who wrote this post is working with. They are connected to responders and have the necessary connections and manpower to make things happen and get funds to others who can. https://bit.ly/2024-flood-relief
I just gave a donation to Operation Blessing after they were recommended. I'd never heard of it before but they are doing good work and I did a bit of research first and they came out sparkling clean.
New to me, but definitely will give it a try, thank you!
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A few thoughts on the aftermath of hurricanes from my experience being in New Orleans and Wayside, Mississippi the day after Katrina.
The federal and state response was a joke. Decisions and action has to be immediate and it's not the movies. FEMA is nowhere to be seen on the ground. They might be in a tent somewhere talking and pretending to be doing something, but lol.
Followed the walmart convoy in.
Walmart?
Yes, that company was more impressive than anything or anyone in that first 24 hours.
So much so, that many people were calling for Walmart to replace fema and call it wema.
The convoy was stationed just east of Beaumont, TX on Interstate I-10 on the shoulder before Katrina hit. Mile after mile of tractor trailers with Walmart emblazoned and many hired third party without.
Their goal was get 3 stores up and running. They had huge generators, circus tents, fuel truck, store merch and heavy equipment.
Trees blocking road?
No problem.
Pretty sure they had 2 Walmart in NO and 1 in Wayside operating their tent stores within 24 hours.
After that, I believe the first 24 hours of operation was dedicated to first responders, much of which Walmart gave away.
One of the biggest items was chainsaws and fuel.
Forgive me if my memory is faulty. Maybe someone that was also there can correct.
Anyway, the scariest most awful sight?
Was in Wayside and was turning around to go back to New Orleans and was not far from the ocean. Started doing the Uturn at a Texaco station that had been wiped out and noticed this mountain of debris at the base of a treeline
Got out of my truck to investigate and saw the bark had been stripped from the trees about 40 to 50 feet in the air and it dawned on me. That was the storm surge and the trees had their bark removed by the debris the surge was carrying.
Said a prayer for anyone that got caught in that and took off. Did take some pics, but not sure where they reside.
Wildest thing I saw and felt?
Driving around New Orleans with absolutely zero other cars or people. Felt like Charlton Heston in Omega Man and yes, once night fell, I was out of there! During the whole day, I saw maybe 2 National Guard humvees. They just blew by me.
Also heard some gun fire from time to time. Nothing too crazy.
There was a checkpoint manned by the military to get into the city within a couple of days.
I was given a gubmit issued piece of paper by a company that had me checking whether the roof over their data centers was intact.
My experience was never underestimate a hurricane and if in it's path, get out of its way.
Finally, the gubmit reacts poorly, even the military. Just too much needs to be done too fast.
Churches and Walmart were impressive, though. By the time churches were already handing out water, Red Cross advance field teams were just arriving to do assessment, lol.
What a clown show Red Cross was.
Anyway, just some thoughts I thought to share. Do not mind being corrected or given differing thoughts by others that were there in those first days.
Pretty sure I posted a story some years back about a Red Cross team I asked to help me unstuck an elderly couples car.
Long story, but the end result was 3 young early 20's Red Cross kids and they would not render assistance because they were "office admin and not field operators", lol.
Often think about those 3 yahoo's. 2 girls and 1 guy. In their forties now and probably have kids. Soon they will be the age of that elderly couple I got unstuck. Night was about to fall, but those kids had zero sense of care nor urgency.
I wasn't much older, but damn, had a great sense of urgency.
Sorry for typos. On cell phone with fat fingers.
Walmart gets a lot of criticism but when we had a severe storm in my rather rural part of East Texas, they responded just as you described. For at least two weeks they were the only lifeline. Remarkably they never raised prices and were always fully stocked. (Lowes was the other company that stepped up during that time.) Despite that being years ago, I still think about it when I hear criticism of them.
The Walmart response to Katrina was amazing. Had no idea they had a division dedicated to disaster response. Actually, had no idea any company did that.
They were ready to go before storm hit.
Guaranteed, Walmart has a convoy moving through the Helene path already.
Another thought.
Was in NO and MS that first week. My hotel was in Gulfport or Biloxi. Don't remember. A few weeks later brought my trailer down and stayed in Gulfport.
Anyway, I was only in NO during the day. Was definitely not safe at night. As sun was setting the frequency of gunfire increased and there was a choke point leaving town to the east.
Main highway bridge was destroyed, so had to take an alternate that was sketchy to traverse.
So, while still in my head, wrote up my inspection reports in town. Only place I felt safe to do that was at one of the disaster relief staging areas.
One day, this is still the first week after storm hit, had my truck parked between a church setup and a Red Cross tent.
The church spot had 2 tables. Left table was stacked with water bottles and right table was brown paper bags with lunch. Just to right of those brown paper bags was maybe 6 bibles.
Oh, they also had a sign with name of their church and state. Think it was North Carolina.
The setup was not in your face at all, yet a first responder walked up to my door, leaned in and said, "do they really need to be proselytizing"?
I just replied, "to be honest, been here over an hour and haven't seen them hand out a Bible yet. Just water and lunch. Think they are asking people if they would like a Bible, but being refused. Hardly proselytizing."
"Yeah, guess so", he replied then walked away.
It was at this moment someone walked out of the Red Cross tent over to the church tables, helped themselves to 2 bags and waters, then back to the tent.
Thought to myself, you have got to be kidding me. Those Red Cross turds are drinking and eating that churches relief supply, lol.
Was hungry and thirsty and came close to walking over there, but at end of the day, I was not a local, not a first responder.
A lot of people love to throw shade on churches, but those churches there after Katrina?
They were doing God's work and were a blessing for sure.
Good on them and bless em for it, but it's just good business. The only place in town to get anything and they have the resources to get in there and sell their stuff. Not raising their prices... well kudos for that kek
WOW
My husband was in Katrina with the NG fir a month. He said it sucked. Slept in a junior high locker room and later on in a church. I remember him calling me when he first got there and I could tell he was in shock. Said it looked like a bomb went off. The first wave had to shoot dogs because some had reverted to these wild pack animals. One night they watched a pack chase a donkey. Because it was so upsetting, when he was out on patrol, they started carrying big bags of kibble with them and would take a knife, tear the bag open and let them eat.
God bless him.
That makes sense about the dogs. No people, but a lot of animals left behind. Doesn't take long to go hungry. Heard those sporadic gun shots during the day and that would be a good explanation for it. Never sounded like a gun fight.
The gun fight sounds came later as the sun set.
I lived thru Katrina. My aunt and cousin both had their homes completely swept into the lakes - Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Catherine. Saw Oak trees uprooted where the top of the roof ball was taller than the two story house behind it. Trees twisted and snapped off like toothpicks. My husband and oldest son joined our neighbors using chainsaws and tractors to clear the road for local police and firefighters to have access to others in worse way. Parts of two of the three bridges connecting New Orleans to outside world had lost stretches of the bridges - unusable.
The dollar General in Bush La also just handed out the store's stock to us.
I live just east of Ashville and have heard nothing about "thousands dead". Thousands are without power, not dead.
Thanks. The volunteer was extremely tired and may have misspoken. I removed that claim from the quote in the comment.
Thanks
I have a friend in Clyde we haven’t heard from. He is up high. I’m hoping just without power…..
Heard an update from the volunteer. Unfortunately he has talked directly with the guys pulling the dead bodies out of the rivers and there are indeed thousands dead. Communication’s so poor right now that it’s not on the news yet, is all. But this is information directly from the scene.
Praying fervently for you all Tennessee, Georgia, north Carolina south Carolina and Florida.
I helped a brother in Christ yesterday empty his house in florida and tear up flooring where he got over a foot of sea water inside. He lives a mile from the ocean.
My pastors family lives up there. Their house is gone. FD and rescue reported only finding 1 person alive from the entire neighborhood.
Death toll will be thousand (s). They can't find the bodies to count them as deceased.
Lord, have mercy!
Yeah, once those floodwaters recede I worry about what they will find.
Wow! You’d think mountain areas would be safe from flooding. Medications are probably an issue for some. Good job, guys! Feds are almost useless.
I used to live in Chattanooga and that mountain would have quite the rushing waters during a hard rain. It’s wild what water can do.
I was in Chattanooga with the family a few weeks ago at Old Mountain...I would have been devastated if that hit us while we were there. There was a torrential rain on that mountain and it was scary enough.
Side note: Chattanooga is creepy. There's way too many "chemical" companies and then you can seen the obvious human trafficking setups next to the train tracks, etc. IDK I got very bad vibes about what I saw, which tbh wasnt much.
Oh wow, it’s been years since we moved, I’ll have to pay attention when I go back for what you mentioned.
For those of you who want an appreciation of the difference between settlers and the economic parasites calling themselves immigrants today, this is it. The settlers came to the backwoods of Appalachia and literally chopped their homes and lives out of these woods 300 years ago. They built it up from nothing. No free bus rides. No free food. No free health care. And they had the natives there who weren't at all happy about them traipsing all over native land.
When liberals say "we've always been a nation of immigrants," no, we haven't. These two peoples are totally opposite. And it's the ancestors of those settlers who are out there today with the chainsaws and the shallow bottomed boats rescuing people, doing the same work to survive that was done 300 years ago. Meanwhile the "immigrants" are looting.
This
Found this:
Hurricane Helene: North Carolina in ruins after Hurricane Helene devastation, death toll reaches 100
Says it's a "live stream" but clearly it's just replaying footage... the sun's not even up yet.
https://youtu.be/zKN1-yHLZQA
https://youtu.be/Kooxhdqr_Rg
https://youtu.be/t9iAip9cUS4
https://youtu.be/LHb8Baps2SA
🫡 doing good work ANON
Praying for the people in NC, TN, GA & FL.
The amount of work required to clear these roads is staggering. It must be like cutting a new path through the forest, probably can't make it 5 yards without firing up the chainsaws.
My bro has a place at Beach Mt. Glad he was not up there when this happened.
Just curious how many other countries are offering "aid and supplies" to these American states/towns?
So is Douglas, coffee county, Georgia. We went Saturday to deliver a generator. Holy cow. Neighbors are out with chain saws, helping dig out. It’s terrible. Pray for Asheville NC.
Crazy to contrast community response to this than Katrina..... what is the difference?
Let us know how to help by prayer or sending funds to where it can count.
Is that from flood waters, tornadoes or wind from the hurricaine? It looks like wind damage but who knows with these artificially enhanced storms.
Sorry red states... All those soggy ballots will be counted for Kamala.
You already voted via mail and due to the storm no polling centers are operating.
Say congratulations to your new dictator.
Dear God how sad this is please help these people.
Amen.
interesting.... any Monkeywerx watchers will remember that as this hurricane was "developing" he was tracking planes cloudseeding in the Barbados area on the north east side of South America. Those planes were registered in/to Germany!
While it would've been hard to know what the storm was capable of, there's no excuse for the residents who stayed behind, either in FL or in the rain path up to Appalachia that had set itself up like a conveyor belt for days before the eye made landfall. When you choose to live in a flood plain or near any moving body of water, there is one thing you must always be vigilant for: water levels.
Once you see that level get past a certain point, it's time to put away your hubris and ego and get yourself to higher ground. Period. Keeping or "saving" physical possessions aren't ever worth risking one's life, or the lives of loved ones to "protect." It amazes me that we still have people on this planet who think they can beat Nature when it decides to show its strength.
If you go back and watch the radar findings of Helene as she started impacting the S.E., you'll see that for almost two full days before the eye even made landfall, a conveyor belt of sorts had set up and pushed all they way into NC. If you pay attention to how big storms like hurricanes move, you'll notice they ALWAYS follow the path of the most moisture.
This isn't the early 1900s anymore, the time before Doplar Radar, folks. There were warnings for days about this storm. There were also evac.notices going out in the places that were most at risk of damaging flooding and high winds. Only now it's a "tragedy" because some people decided to tempt fate, thinking they could "beat" nature like some idiotic version of Lt Dan? Completely and totally asinine.
The fact that people who refused to heed the warnings are complaining about the emergency response is also stupid. Y'all got yourselves into this mess, you can get yourselves out of it. They act like the USCG, Nat Guard, etc have a duty to come and save them when they were dumb enough to test and tempt fate. This is erroneous and dangerous thinking. NO ONE has a duty to come save you when you've risked your own life by being stupid. And you damn sure don't have the right to risk someone else's life by being stupid, either.
This is why I never donate to help "rebuild" an area when things like this happen. This isn't some sudden flash flood that came out of nowhere. There were signs and scientific proof this was going to be a huge rain making and high wind event. Yet it was ignored by the ignorant and foolish.
Yes, it's a tragedy that it happened. But it's a stupid tragedy that could've been avoided had people remained smart and vigilant and not acted with false bravado and egoic stupidity. They don't deserve our sympathy, they deserve our ire and criticism.
There were no evacuation orders for the whole region. The authorities who watch for these things were prepped for a storm but no one knew it would be on this scale. Give people a break. My son and many friends are stuck there and, believe me, they are not dumb and had no intention of “tempting fate.” I’ve been in the path of many hurricanes including Helene and have never had to evacuate. It’s true that not everybody is an expert in predicting what a hurricane will do and where it will hit hardest. But that doesn’t mean they deserve to suffer and die.
Really? Dude, I live on the predicted path of eye. Weather channel was showing the path going directly over my house. What hit North Carolina was suppose to hit me.
Where am I going to go? Alabama? Tennessee? North Carolina? Just pack up my stuff and hope for the best? Unless you live near the shore line, shelter in place is the only real option for folks inland. I don't live far enough out that I wouldn't be able to travel, but I would need a chain and a tractor if I wanted to go to town. Not everyone is able body like me. My neighbor, Old Man Ford, is on oxygen. If the road are blocked, who's going to help him? Not you...
Exactly! Just like Hugo was forecast to come up the coast of North Carolina and inland around I-95. It turned and went straight to Charolette NC.
My first road trip with my wife of 21 years was suppose to be to Key West. But there was a hurricane, so we went to Washington DC instead. Well, the hurricane followed us, and if that wasn't bad enough, the DC sniper hit the Texaco we would have stopped at. We only missed it by 30 minutes because we stop at a rest stop for 30 minutes.
You have no idea how fast the rain built up. Also you aren't going to early evacuate for rain, whether its a slow moving tropical storm or otherwise. ESPECIALLY since nothing like this has happened in over 100 years. People forget.
All of this wall of text and its clear you have little understanding of what ACTUALLY happens during a life or death event like this.
Your lack of empathy to help rebuild because "its your fault" is also just, foolish.
Have a good day.
What an absurd take. Are you really so ignorant that you think it practical to evacuate the entire southeast?
Or are you being deliberately incendiary with this comment? Have to wonder.
Exactly. You can't evac an entire state, or group of states.
I went through one of these storms several years ago. My conclusion was that we need to build houses that can better withstand these storms so that people are better able to shelter in place - low, single-story, reinforced concrete or cinderblock construction with roll-down metal shutters would survive much better than the sticks we use to build houses now.
People in a storm surge area would still have to leave, but that is manageable. Everyone else being able to shelter in place, and help each other, would make this a lot easier to deal with.
The warnings for this storm were not in any way sufficient for the people who actually got hit. I was in the "predicted" path of the storm (north of ATL), and I didn't even know about it until my Alexa (of all things) put out a Tropical Storm Watch Wednesday morning. Kudos to Amazon, our Alexa was going crazy with notifications all Wed and Thurs, however the storm wasn't actually heading to us. Even got a Tropical Storm Warning Friday afternoon, when the storm was already well into NC and didn't hit us at all. By contrast, I got exactly 1 emergency broadcast alert on my phone, and that was well into Friday morning when the storm was way further east. For people in areas that weren't supposed to be hit that hard but were, I'd imagine they didn't even get warnings until the storm was upon them, if even then. Yes, they knew there was supposed to be some flooding in Asheville, but nowhere near what they got. It's like they programmed the alerts well before the storm, and didn't bother updating when the storm took a different path.