I'm sick to my stomach over this. I live 90 minutes from the damage zone. I have had multiple conversations with friends and friends of friends who have been up in the carnage helping.

NC says 94 dead. This is 100% BS.

• 9 Reefer trucks at Hickory airport with bodies stacked like cordwood - that could be several thousand bodies alone.

• Report that one coroner has 1,200 bodies in one county alone.

• Radio calls overheard one for 800 bags and the other at an airport for 1000 lbs of bags (payload quantity).

• Some may have seen the story of one woman who lost her whole family of 11. What the article didn't say, was that there were 40 other homes in her holler. She was the only survivor.

These stories could go on and on. The real number is 10,000-20,000. Gov. Cooper controls the information which gets released. He's keeping a lid on the disaster.

I just want to keep this on the top of people's minds as we go through daily life.

#WNCSTRONG #ETNSTRONG