“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…”
(media.greatawakening.win)
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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.