re: Helene - Recovery Begins...Devastating Flash Flooding in Western NC and Eastern TN

I agree with that also flash lights a lantern. If you have hit the road and forget anything or want let me know I’ll go shopping for you and meet you. I live off I 40 you focus on your trip I can round up stuff you may need. If not safe travels.

Power out till at least Friday they say, curfew set from 10 pm till 6am. Can't go a qtr mile without seeing 3 or 4 trees on lines. I know it's not as bad as many but it's the worst I've seen in this area. Last time I saw this level was a tornado in the 80s, and it was localized.

Updates from Stocking Mill Coffee:

Last night:



Stocking Mill Coffee
@smcroasters

Update.

So we have linked up and are at the point where we are going to be able to get 5 families food and temporary shelter for a month as well as have more to buy supplies when we get close and help people in the cleanup effort.

We are getting more DM’s and emails of potential people we can help and ask to keep sending them as we have the resources to help a few more people out.

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Last night:


Stocking Mill Coffee
@smcroasters

A lot of people are thinking about heading up to help.

Been doing this for a while so here are some tips.

1) Stage in an area where you’re not taking up affected peoples space. Don’t get a hotel room a homeless person can use.

2) Be armed, I can’t tell you how many people I know have been robbed helping in disaster areas.

3) Don’t get fricked up or in a bad situation trying to help other people. There are already enough fricked up people in bad situations. Don’t travel there and become one.

4) Don’t drive by frustrated people working hard that have lost everything and start snapping pics for social media…grab a fricking shovel or chainsaw and help instead (can’t tell you how many retards do this)

5) Have a reliable vehicle…don’t drive Sanford and Son shite up there with fricked up tires.

6) Get supplies where you stage…everyone brings water and food and a lot of it goes unused. Diapers and fans are always something heavily needed in floods.

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This morning:


Stocking Mill Coffee
@smcroasters

GM GM

Please RT and share.

Roasting beans and getting ready to go help out in NC tomorrow.

Thanks to y’all we have over 30k raised and will keep it going today until noon.

We have more addresses and contacts of people we will be helping.

If you’re in the area and need food or any help clearing your property shoot us a dm and we will find a way there.

We appreciate and love everyone helping and can’t thank the SMC family enough.

If you’d like to donate here is a link and we make sure it all goes directly into the hands of those that need it. No second parties.

SMRC Twitter LINK

Note a reply to him and his response:


HolzXI
@holz_xi
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Hey E, note that NC is not a Constitutional Carry state. Just putting it out there



Stocking Mill Coffee
@smcroasters
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I don’t care lol.

Both sides of the mountains are hammered. Most roads into North Carolina are washed out and cut off with the exception of 19-E on the Carter County, TN and Avery County, NC line.

Many folks worship, work, attend school, and much more on both sides of that border and they put up a big metal barricade last night.

It’s quicker for some folks, because of bridge and road outages, in Avery to get to Johnson City or Elizabethton for needed supplies as their town seat (Newland) is destroyed.

Been up in Roan Mountain, TN helping family the couple of days. So many folks in the mountain hollows of Roan, Hampton, Poga, Little Milligan are to themselves because bridges and driveways are completely gone, roads destroyed, no electric or cellular up that way for a month or longer at this point.

Poor Johnson County is basically isolated now because of bridge and road outages. Nobody talking about them.

Only one bridge remains over the Nolichuckey in Greene and/or Washington counties. Erwin as yall noted earlier is a disaster.

It’s damned bad up here. Pictures do not do it justice.

Edit: Also Damascus, VA — absolutely wiped. It’s a big Appalachian Trail town on the VA/TN border right down the blue ridge line. Other Southwest Virginia towns as well.

The main way between Tennessee and Boone, NC (321) will be closed for the foreseeable future. So many of the mountain roads to the ski resorts like Beech in NC are wiped out or blocked.

Just got my power back this morning. I’m just west of Columbia SC.

Talked to a friend in Greenville SC. Still no power there and said it’s as bad as he’s ever seen it. Said a person up the street from him was killed by a tree splitting his house. Western NC is terrible but there are similar stories in western SC from I20 north…it seems the NW part of the state got hit particularly hard.

I'll look into it myself. What kind of help are they needing? Unless it's a specialized need, I can see a lot of people, with good intentions, getting in the way.

I’m originally from Spartanburg, SC. 95% of the county is still without power. Just started getting cell service back Saturday afternoon. A large oak fell on my parents house. Luckily mostly on the portion that is over their porch. I don’t know anyone from Spartanburg or Greenville that didn’t have a tree fall on a car, house or damage their yard.

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I'll look into it myself. What kind of help are they needing? Unless it's a specialized need, I can see a lot of people, with good intentions, getting in the way.

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From my understanding it’ll be general debris cleanup, tarping, mud out type stuff. Teams of 15 with a leader. They do this a lot and seem pretty organized.

I’ll pass along any detail when/if they contact me.

Does anyone know the conditions around/on Hurricane Lake (ironic I know) in the Cashiers/Highlands area of NC? Some old acquaintances of my mom retired to a cabin on the lake up there.

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Turns out our esteemed President hasn't signed an emergency declaration so FEMA can't provide assistance.

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