The devastation is immeasurable. I was able to flee to Atlanta for a couple days, rented a large vehicle and drove supplies into my area today. The stories I am hearing are crazy from friends that I just sat on their porches with. We’re hearing of makeshift morgues and piles of bodies. It makes sense because my street today had a checkpoint due to search and rescue looking for bodies. We had 2 homes on my road float away. It’s grim. Kids are hearing no school till after xmas and rumors are the water won’t be “mostly restored” for about 4 months. No one here realizes the scope of it all, alot of folks have very limited communication. There’s been helicopters nonstop.
Anyways. Had to vent bc I’m now here in my home in the pitch black dark and it’s really surreal. I am safe I’ve got my car and enough gas to get back out, but if anyone can help anyone in the area we really need it. It is so much worse than any media outlet is reporting. I would imagine there’s 5k dead in NC alone
That might end up being a conservative Estimate.
God knows how many rural Ranches, Farms and Properties there were squirreled away down gravel and dirt roads. It might be weeks till they get remembered if they had no family out of state to report them missing and out of contact.
The evil we are dealing with is beyond understanding. Pray. Constantly.
And stack ammo and non perishables
I prey many of these mountain folks will be found, they know how to live off the land and take care of each other, that's why they choose to live there.