Western North Carolina

[brokeasajoke]

Also the FEMA is helping if you file with them. If you don't have access and have to relocate (the answer is yes if they ask you wink wink) FEMA will help pay. I believe they first give $200 to hire a contractor to get an estimate and then you turn that estimate in. Something like $42k is the max.

 

[wasskeet]

Got a friend that sells industrial & electrical equipment. Baxter Pharma is one of his clients. He visited there this past week and had to walk a little over a mile to get to it. Hard to imagine just how much destruction in Western NC.

 

[brokeasajoke]

Got a friend that sells industrial & electrical equipment. Baxter Pharma is one of his clients. He visited there this past week and had to walk a little over a mile to get to it. Hard to imagine just how much destruction in Western NC.

My wife used to work for Baxter.

 

[Turpentine]

The news organization are just getting up speed on the devastation in western NC. Here is a link to a Facebook page that a college kid runs. He is the go to guy for information about what's going there. The devastation can't be described.
If you find it in your heart donate whatever you can to a local charity in the affected counties. This is a long long term recovery effort.
Transylvania county has been in my heart since I got out of the Navy in 1970. That's where I'll be moving as soon as my house is finished. My charity of choice there is Sharing House. I'm sure there are others like it in the affected counties.

Thanks
Dave

Donate — Sharing House

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My house flooded in the 1000 year flood of 2015 in my area. It was very traumatizing to everyone involved and some still haven't fully recovered. That said, what we experienced is a drop in the bucket compared to what those people in North Carolina are experiencing. They are hurting. It's a terrible situation and there is no quick remedy to it. It will take them years to recover. I can't even imagine. My heart goes out to them.

 

[6MMsteve]

I been watching Gentry & Sons Trucking they have been hauling supplies down there..donated through those guys for whatever they need, it's going to be a long recovery people have lost everything they own.

 

[DaveTooley]

I think they have plenty of daily life supplies. The most urgent need is money to start the recovery process. That's much harder to coordinate.

 

[rwj]

I think they have plenty of daily life supplies. The most urgent need is money to start the recovery process. That's much harder to coordinate.

Supplies are available, getting them to those in need is still an issue. My niece has a Rubicon and makes supply runs for some near her. Potable water remains an issue despite part of the Asheville water system being restored.

 

[brokeasajoke]

I think they have plenty of daily life supplies. The most urgent need is money to start the recovery process. That's much harder to coordinate.

This^^^ we have enough bottled water to recreate the flood and enough diapers and feminine products to dry it up. Money donations to my fire department has been the biggest help. Certain areas have certain needs. Money to maintain generators in the furthest out areas or heat like propane or dry fire wood for those with wood stoves.

 

[rwj]

Supplies are available, getting them to those in need is still an issue. My niece has a Rubicon and makes supply runs for some near her. Potable water remains an issue despite part of the Asheville water system being restored.

This article details the problems with access my niece is trying to address. This is not just an issue in Chimney Rock…

Exclusive | ‘West Virginia Boys’ move a literal mountain to build a road so Helene victims can finally return home: ‘Nothing short of miraculous’

“The West Virginia boys have moved the mountains. All of the roads were just gone, until now. It’s nothing short of miraculous,” one resident told The Post.

nypost.com

 

[brokeasajoke]

This has been a long the N Toe river for several weeks now. Pass it on my way to church.

 

[Knotwild]

I spent last week helping a group rebuild houses in Black Mountain NC. If anyone has any thoughts of donating, I ask that you consider the Fuller Center. They move into a disaster area and their first goal is to restore the people through kindness and ministry. Then, they have a very knowledgeable lady who assists the homeowner with insurance claims and applying for FEMA funds. FEMA funds and insurance is not adequate, so they finish restoring homes through donations and volunteer work. They do not leave until the job is done and in fact have people still working in Kentucky repairing tornado damaged homes from 2021.

We worked on 3 homes. One was a trailer that a Vietnam vet lived in. They are almost finished getting his trailer done. Since Sarge hadn't been anywhere since the disaster, they loaded him up and took him to town for an outing.

Again, I was impressed by the work and attitude of the Fuller crew towards the victims. If you feel like donating or volunteering, please consider them.

Fuller Center

 

[hogpatrol]

Boss, if this isn't legal, please delete but I have a bud near Weaverville, who had the small bridge to his home washed out. He's got a go fund me site set up to try and get an excavator or other heavy equipment in to restore it. There's a photo of it on this site. He has a bud that lives with him who's in a wheelchair and owns a van but can't get to work because of the bridge being out. Any help greatly appreciated.

https://gofund.me/29139b2d

An update on the bridge/access road repair is they got it done with the funds provided on the gofundme site.
Thanks to any and all that contributed to this effort.

 

[brokeasajoke]

Awesome. Private companies helping and neighbors helping neighbors. Have seen about zero government. Guard packed up an left a few weeks ago.

 

[woodbooger]

i know its been a few months since this happened,how quickly we forget.dont forget about our neighbors.they are still hurting and some still without their homes.had the privilege to go up last week with a group from our church and help.urge you to go if you can.continue to pray for them.

 

[brokeasajoke]

i know its been a few months since this happened,how quickly we forget.dont forget about our neighbors.they are still hurting and some still without their homes.had the privilege to go up last week with a group from our church and help.urge you to go if you can.continue to pray for them.

Most of the supply centers are shutting down. Ours at the fire department is done as well as donations of supplies have dwindled to nothing. My church is buying a 30ft enclosed trailer and a 12x20 building to continue to have supplies as along as we can. The trailer will allow us to be mobile instead of just one spot.Anchor Ridge out of Wilkesboro is bring the church pallets to distribute right now. Wild fires are going to be tough this fall with all the blown down timber that will be added fuel. Many along the rivers are still without homes. I'm still absolutely awe struck when I drive by them 6 months later. Good roads are now worse than terrible due to all the heavy equipment traveling in a daily basis, but that's a good thing. Somewhere an entire mountain has had to have been crushed for gravel and rock with the amounts that have been brought in. CSX is making progress on the railroad but it's slow. I'm tired of Helene, tired of FEMA dragging their feet, land values and people moving in are skyrocketing, lots of Carbon monoxide calls at the fire department where people are running to many open flame heaters in their home. Things will never be the same. My mind is going to have to relearn the way everything is supposed to look.