Helene Recovery & Info

[Macksbrownies]

My wife, who is a NICU nurse at Duke, will be volunteering a few days later this week to help out at the local Duke affiliated hospitals in the area.

 

[aGDevil2k]

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I wonder exactly what Tariq Bokhari was doing to help? Sounds more like a photo op to me. That guy loves to get camera time.

While you are right, the more visual coverage the better

 

[C-Money]

10M views · 79K reactions | One of the most horrifying videos I’ve ever seen. A couple in Boone, NC, barely avoided a mudslide easily moving 60 mph near their home. Support this family here: https://gofund.me/3058c381 | Meteorologist James Scott WCCB

One of the most horrifying videos I’ve ever seen. A couple in Boone, NC, barely avoided a mudslide easily moving 60 mph near their home. Support this family here: https://gofund.me/3058c381.

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[gtyellowjacket]

Lineman crews (and equipment) will move into FL, GA, SC, NC, and TN from other states (let’s hope for no more substantial storms this hurricane season).

The Northeast states and Midwest states will likely reduce/halt most maintenance and new construction work and send available linemen (and equipment) to the impacted states.

The linemen love this work - according to a cousin who works for Duke Energy (formerly FP&L) in the Tampa area, he gets ridiculous overtime for this type of work……..including time sleeping (IIRC) while in another state doing emergency work.

Its a crazy good deal. Some of those guys are making over 300k. I'm glad they are getting it.

I would have loved to get paid for all the time I spent away from home when companies casually decided to put me on the road for 3 or 4 days a week for weeks at a time.

 

[nycfan]

10M views · 79K reactions | One of the most horrifying videos I’ve ever seen. A couple in Boone, NC, barely avoided a mudslide easily moving 60 mph near their home. Support this family here: https://gofund.me/3058c381 | Meteorologist James Scott WCCB

One of the most horrifying videos I’ve ever seen. A couple in Boone, NC, barely avoided a mudslide easily moving 60 mph near their home. Support this family here: https://gofund.me/3058c381.

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See, I have watched a lot of found footage movies because I am that kind of nerd, but this is the moment in the film where I would be like why the hell are you still filming instead of taking cover????

Aaaaaah. Glad they are ok.

 

[Zoo_View]

Its a crazy good deal. Some of those guys are making over 300k. I'm glad they are getting it.

I would have loved to get paid for all the time I spent away from home when companies casually decided to put me on the road for 3 or 4 days a week for weeks at a time.

Many linemen (power company and telecom) have good unions. Those that don’t (see my cousin in Florida), their emergency situation overtime is protected by the linemen in union states.

I definitely support their OT pay.

 

[C-Money]

Went to help in the Lake Lure/Chimney Rock area today, and it’s hard to describe - never seen anything like this. Post apocalyptic. It’s so overwhelming... | By Tariq | Facebook

Went to help in the Lake Lure/Chimney Rock area today, and it’s hard to describe - never seen anything like this. Post apocalyptic. It’s so overwhelming...

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[dr_phlogiston]

“… Holt said they are creating lists of missions to prioritize for air assets when available.
“The National Guard is committed all over Western North Carolina,” Holt said.

“They are focusing right now on pulling people out of places that are still in flood waters. We do have missions, and we are working to get communications to people in isolated areas.” …”

https://www.wataugademocrat.com/news/local/emergency-personnel-continue-recovery-efforts-as-watauga-sees-catastrophic-damage/article_f16fdd82-7e65-11ef-85a5-d3bb571e1840.html?utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwY2xjawFmQZdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQYNgeHvY34sHpZoTqYnA5ML5FQbKUtny4PAal64uLshiwXOCzABRWPmrQ_aem_Y3hmtoC86s4AwsCCHFXKtA

The National Guard was working today to deliver supplies and water to communities that are difficult to reach by conventional trucks due to road conditions. I saw reports of air drops of supplies by helicopter in Banner Elk and NG vehicles reaching Spruce Pine.

 

[gregh1]

Got an aunt, uncle, and cousins who live outside of Forest City/Ellenboro whom nobody has heard from since Thursday. Definitely an uneasy feeling, but my family is assuming the best right now and hopeful that they are just completely without power and cell service.

I was scrolling thru twitter and read about Saluda folks making it to spindale for gas and groceries (and service)... And lake lure folks making it to Forest City for the same... But being better relatively to Saluda/lake lure might still be rough.

 

[chawkheel]

Anyone successfully gotten in touch with anyone from Asheville? Been trying to check in on my friend and his family there.

Finally got ahold of my friend and he and his family are ok. What a heartbreaking mess.

 

[Scientific Mapp]

Duke Energy sent power restoration timeline texts to the various counties tonight which I consider ambitious and/or hopeful. In my county and neighborhood, i was thinking 1-2 weeks, and they're now talking 5 days. Similar optimistic timelines for WNC relatives in different counties.

 

[2ManyBlueCups]

What good is FEMA doing here?

Not a rhetorical or argumentative question-- they may be doing a lot behind the scenes.

I personally haven't seen or heard of any visible FEMA presence in WNC.

All of the search and rescue task forces from across the country that are in the mountains right now are being deployed and paid for by FEMA. The Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) and swift water groups belong to local municipalities across the country but are FEMA assets in situations like these. FEMA deploys these task forces and reimburses the municipalities that send the personnel and equipment.

 

[2ManyBlueCups]

This was the list of FEMA and state USAR assets deployed as of two days ago. The list continues to grow each day. For example USAR task forces from Los Angeles, Orange County (CA) and San Diego left within the last 48 hours to begin the long drive to North Carolina. Several members of the San Diego FD USAR team were critically injured in a crash in Birmingham during their travels here.


Florida:
FEMA Blue USAR Incident Support Team and East IST Cache
Florida Task Force 1 - Type 1 (80 person) - State Deployment of State/Federal Shared Asset
Florida Task Force 2 - Type 1 (80 person) - State Deployment of State/Federal Shared Asset
Virginia Task Force 1 - Type 1 (80 person) - Federal Deployment
Virginia Task Force 2 - Type 1 (80 person) - Federal Deployment
Ohio Task Force 1 - Type 1 (80 person) - Federal Deployment
Tennessee Task Force 1 - Type 1 (80 person) - Federal Deployment
Texas task Force 1 - Type 1 (80 person) - Federal Deployment
Indiana Task Force 1 - Type 1 (80 person) - Federal Deployment
Florida Task Force 6 - Type 3 (45 person) - State Deployment
Florida Task Force 8 – Type 3 (45 person) – State Deployment
Mississippi Task Force 1 - Type 1 Swiftwater Team (18 person) - EMAC Deployment
Vermont Task Force 1 - Type 1 Swiftwater Team (18 person) - EMAC Deployment
Kansas Task Force 1 – Type 1 Swiftwater Team (18 person) – EMAC Deployment
Ohio Task Force 1 – Type 1 Team (80 person)
Oklahoma Task Force 1 – Type 1 Swiftwater Team (18 person) – EMAC Deployment
Florida Task Force 4 – Type 3 Task Force (45 person) – State Deployment

Georgia:
Maryland Task Force 1 - Type 3 (45 person) - Federal Deployment
Missouri Task Force 1- Type 3 (45 person) - Federal Deployment
Utah Task Force 1 – Type 3 (45 person) – Federal Deployment

North Carolina:
North Carolina Task Forces 1 through 11 all activated at various capacities for state level deployments
Massachusetts Task Force 1 - Type 3 (45 Person) - Federal Deployment
New York Task Force 1 - Type 3 (45 Person) - Federal Deployment
New Jersey Task Force 1 - Type 1 (80 Person) - Federal Deployment
Pennsylvania Task Force 1 - Type 3 (45 Person) - Federal Deployment
Illinois Task Force 1 - Type 1 Swiftwater Team (18 person) - EMAC Deployment
Illinois Swiftwater Rescue 1 – Type 1 Swiftwater Team (18 person) – EMAC Deployment
Michigan Task Force 1 - Type 1 Swiftwater Team (18 person) - EMAC Deployment
Massachusetts Task Force 1 – Type 1 Swiftwater Team (18 Person) – Federal Deployment (this is in addition to their Type 3 team)
Alabama Task Force 1 – Type 1 Swiftwater Team (18 person) – EMAC Deployment
Indiana Division 201 – Type 2 Swiftwater Team (11 person) – EMAC Deployment
California Task Force 8 – Type 3 (45 person) – Federal Deployment
Wisconsin Task Force 1 – Type 1 Swiftwater (18 person) – EMAC Deployment


Tennessee:
Colorado Task Force 1 - Type 3 (45 Person) - Federal Deployment
Nebraska Task Force 1 - Type 3 (45 Person) - Federal Deployment

South Carolina:
All state and local Technical Rescue/Swiftwater Rescue resources activated at various levels to support response
Louisiana TF 2 – Type 1 Swiftwater – (18 person) – EMAC
Louisiana TF 3 – Type 3 Task Force – (45 person) – EMAC

 

[SnoopRob]

And, in less important news, the Great Spectrum Internet Outage of 2024 has been solved, although that doesn't mean that every Spectrum customer has service again.

I'm so excited and relieved for those of you with families and friends in the most affected areas who are getting good news.

 

[gregh1]

Is that the lake surface??

Yes, that's the actual lake, all that 'flotsam' must be the buildings of chimney Rock, trees, etc.

Here's the aerial

 

[05C40]

10M views · 79K reactions | One of the most horrifying videos I’ve ever seen. A couple in Boone, NC, barely avoided a mudslide easily moving 60 mph near their home. Support this family here: https://gofund.me/3058c381 | Meteorologist James Scott WCCB

One of the most horrifying videos I’ve ever seen. A couple in Boone, NC, barely avoided a mudslide easily moving 60 mph near their home. Support this family here: https://gofund.me/3058c381.

www.facebook.com

I realize this isn't the point of the video, but the mudslide picking that rusty old piece of farm equipment and hurling it forward was very creepy.

 

[Scientific Mapp]

And, in less important news, the Great Spectrum Internet Outage of 2024 has been solved, although that doesn't mean that every Spectrum customer has service again.

I'm so excited and relieved for those of you with families and friends in the most affected areas who are getting good news.

Yeah. An extremely minor gripe in the greater scheme of things was local radio and internet being of commission, and not knowing who won the VB until 12 hours after the fact. But now that I know, I'm even less happy

 

[nycfan]

Duke Energy sent power restoration timeline texts to the various counties tonight which I consider ambitious and/or hopeful. In my county and neighborhood, i was thinking 1-2 weeks, and they're now talking 5 days. Similar optimistic timelines for WNC relatives in different counties.

My mom’s power is back near Lenoir. Taking her home tomorrow to get her sorted out.

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]