I put this in it’s own from the other Helene thread because of the politics.
This is just to show what happened. If anyone is wondering why help isn’t getting to the area, it’s mostly because it can’t.
Please observe, this isn’t a time for politics. There’s a reason why Appalachia historically hasn’t had many people living there. It’s very rugged country. Think steep drop offs and related. The water reacts like it does in the slot canyons of the SW. Then if you get a lot of water, you get what Helene did.
We have friends who live in Western NC. We haven’t heard from them. We can only hope an pray that they’re ok.
When and if you get to the tornado that hit Rocky Mount, and we’re roughly 300 miles from Asheville, to give you an idea of how wide the storm was. Fortunately there were only a few serious injuries, no deaths, and several minor injuries. It hit approximately 8 miles to our north. That was a bit spooky. We were in a zoom meeting, and had to bail because of the tornado warning. Obviously we’re ok, I’m writing this.
I do not have suggestions who to send money too, except may the Red Cross, but aside from local Red Cross, they can’t get there to help. They may be able to fly supplies in but as of right now I don’t know if that’s the case.
Again, this isn’t for politics. This is a time to come together, and do what we can to help.