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2024-10-13 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by NN2N1 2024-10-13 06:09|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top
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#1 Terrifying. Thank you for finding this for us, NN2N1.

Do you have any recommendations for groups we can donate to?

Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-13 11:05|| 2024-10-13 11:05|| Front Page Top

#2 I am advised by my inlaws in Asheville MC to not visit [Apocalypse Tourism]. They have gathered disadvantaged neighbors and friends to their hilltop home. Openfire cooking of freezer contents and neighborhood BBQ. Plenty of firewood.
Two hour travel to a standing hotel with vacancies so they have no room. Overbooked with rescue workers, firemen, power workers, patriots.
They have food, and gas for cars and generators in 55gal drums delivered by nephew via Deuce.5 for coffee and microwave service. Charging cell phones in car or by inverter. No water so no hot water.
Buried gas station tanks are flooded. Huge contamination downstream.
Water infrastructure destroyed, Army CoE planning to pump from Lake Lure. Some weeks away.
Power poles and cell towers down. Easy power fixes, breakers and line splicing underway. Pole replacement under advisory. Pole inventory is slim, overwhelmed by demand or washed away.
Churches as shelter, OK. Feed stations, not so much. Keeping their money for reconstruction.
Mission Hospital is full. Triage underway.
My BiL, the Doctor, is on volunteer tour to the outcountry with NCNG and local with nephew's Deuce.5. They transport patients when they can but no place for them to go. Home dialysis is in trouble, no consumable supplies. Same with O2 for breathers. His medical practice was looted for drugs and picked over for supplies while still storming.
He's moved his office furniture to his basement. Exam beds for sleeping when his guests can, waiting room chairs for seating. No portable storage remaining.
Givens Estates, an elder retirement community in Asheville has no water or power and few attending employees, so no kitchen. Non-potable water is delivered for flushing, 3000 units. Families are encouraged to take the residents home. Some have nowhere to go. Many will die in place from age ailments, cold or despair. Dr. BiL moved his 97yo mother out, now in the basement with 3 other beds.
Rescue was reduced to recovery, now rubble search is over and small communities are being bulldozed for cleanup, and burial.

Send supply 'stuff' that doesn't require electricity. Blankets, quilts, robes, socks and more socks. Mountain nights down in the 40-50s. Sending money feeds the charities.
People need stuff: period supplies, ear swabs, TP, Keurig coffee makers [water is rationed, they were delighted with a pallet of canned water from Anheuser-Busch], tooth brushes and paste, cigarettes and lighters, candies, power bars, vitamins and food supplements, baby formula and diapers. Things you consume daily and throw away are unavailable.

Amazon is delivering multiple items in big box deliveries. Single items not so much. 'Next Day' is mostly next week. We have many items returned or canceled.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-10-13 13:37|| 2024-10-13 13:37|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Confirmes what my nephew continues to report.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-10-13 13:47|| 2024-10-13 13:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Thank you, Skidmark, and Besoeker for confirmation.

Has anyone heard anything about Georgia? Do they still need help or are they back on their feet?

Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-13 14:56|| 2024-10-13 14:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Have my nephew checking the local emergency shelters and supply points now. Will post locations able to actually deliver items. So many are filled to brim with stuff, but unable to reach those in desperate need of items. They victims can't get to them.

Hello Nc Gov. Where is the NC national guard and its choppers?

Posted by NN2N1 2024-10-13 15:04|| 2024-10-13 15:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Make owl houses out of the pallet planks.
Former house rodent population will bloom in the spring.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-10-13 15:06|| 2024-10-13 15:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Disgusta is 99% up.
Many outlaying areas are screwed.
XFINITY opened its internet cell service for the public use.
Wrens, Millen, Valdosta, Ga & lower ga still about 50 % screwed.

Wally World and other Super Markets running out everything. Since over a 250k homes lost power for 3+ days and a lot food got trashed, which now needs restocking.

Posted by NN2N1 2024-10-13 15:14|| 2024-10-13 15:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Trump reveals one of the biggest campaign issues he says will cost Kamala Harris the election

Posted by Skidmark 2024-10-13 15:18|| 2024-10-13 15:18|| Front Page Top

#9 How about evacuation of the neediest, e.g. those on home dialysis, among others?

Posted by Gromble+Dribble4342 2024-10-13 15:52|| 2024-10-13 15:52|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ To where?

Posted by Skidmark 2024-10-13 16:02|| 2024-10-13 16:02|| Front Page Top

#11 Make owl houses out of the pallet planks.

Skidmark: the Ohio Department of Wildlife has nest box plans with mounting instructions for three species of owls plus bats and other birds native to Ohio. See here.

They’re not the latest research (I know specifically that the bat houses should not have the bottom floor shown there), but they are considerably better than nothing. Oh, and bat houses will be very helpful to reduce the mosquito population next summer.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-13 18:03|| 2024-10-13 18:03|| Front Page Top

#12 Zelensky funds freeze them and give to north carolina

Posted by Anon1 2024-10-13 19:06|| 2024-10-13 19:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Do you have any recommendations for groups we can donate to?

I can recommend The Salvation Army, they tend to show up early and stay late.

The red Cross only shows up when the media is there in force, when the media leave, so do the red Cross.

Salvation Army can use money, they actually spend most of it helping people mostly feeding them, sheltering then (in large tents and empty building they rent for the purpose, etc.) and so on.

I donate to the salvation army, but I also donate clothes and stuff that they can use.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2024-10-13 19:55|| 2024-10-13 19:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Checkout this Link for a long list of WNC Help & Aid Centers and donation sites.

Plus I got a Church, this one is in Syla, NC in the middle of the one the remote mess areas.
They have been arranging aid and deliveries also.

St Mary's Catholic Church
22 Bartlett St, Sylva, NC 28779
(828)586-9496 - Contact them for ways to help and contact others helping.

Posted by NN2N1 2024-10-13 20:28|| 2024-10-13 20:28|| Front Page Top

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