I have to vote early. I’m a poll worker in a different precinct on Election Day.
Rest assured if you live in my county in NC your vote will count! We have good people here running out elections. It’s what happens to that days on the state level that bothers me.
All I gotta say is NC can't stand any more damage. Our coast line was hit with a non named storm two weeks before Helene came into the Western part of our state and they are still trying to clean up from all the flooding there.
It offers cell phone service.
As a NC poll worker here I can't begin to tell you how many times we have to call into our County Election Board to assist with issues that come up during Election Day either to have them search out a voter whom we can't locate in their data base or to assist with other equipment issues. I can't imagine all the problems Western NC will have just to run their precincts in that situation. Much less find poll workers to run it!
In my county we have only 5 Election Board members, an Election Board Director and an Assistant Board Director. They have a few IT peeps who help fix equipment problems and and a few runners who bring last minute info on Election Day.
My county consists of 19 precincts and over 800 square miles. It takes a lot of effort for our County Board of Elections to be able to address each precinct on election night in a county of this size.
Multiply this info by what they have to do in Western NC where many towns or precincts are inaccessible to their own County Election Boards. It just boggles my mind.
My brother lives not far from Tampa in Hillsborough County. He only recently moved to Fl from Wisconsin.
According to him right now they are only evacuating people in his county who are designated A and B and anyone who lives in a trailer. So far he has not been designated to evacuate.
I suspect they will be evacuating different places in stages.
Having been a survivor of massive flooding here in NC after Hurricane Flo we weren't told to evacuate until it was too late. It flooded three days after the storm but there were so many trees down and flooding to the north of us that there was nowhere to go.
I live in a river community that flooded during Hurricane Flo. We had 6 feet in our driveway in 2018 where when we built the property we were told wasn’t in a flood zone. Hurricane Flo was the highest flood ever here in SE NC.
We decided after rebuilding that a generator here would be worthless in another flood unless they were raised up. And being on a corner lot we would have a tough time shielding it from the road according to our HOA. But also, when it flooded in this development those that weren’t flooded couldn’t use their gas generators anyway bc the gas company turned off all the gas in the development.
We have an outlet for a generator but we would only use a portable gas powered one if there were a massive power outage for another reason.