Helene Recovery & Info

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From another musician friend of mine in WNC”

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Tuesday, October 22, 2024 –9:29am
The Saga continues!!! We are now sleeping each night at a FEMA hotel only 10 minutes from our cabin. The cabin does not have running water and it appears there is now a major water leak somewhere between the water meter and our pump house (which pumps water up the mountain to the cabin). The distance between the pump house and the water meter is roughly 150 yards. So, finding the leak is a DAUNTING task. I do have water pipe insurance which should cover the cost, but the problem is when and how to get this fixed. Update: The water people are coming tomorrow to check out the water pipe leak. However, they may not be able to get up the driveway, which is extremely dangerous to drive on, and is getting worse every day. We had to reschedule the refrigerator delivery for November. Hopefully we can get the old one removed before then. The flood insurance people came to the cabin yesterday but told us our FEMA flood insurance ONLY covers damage to the house, not the property. So that means that we will be responsible for the cost of fixing the landslide. The estimate on that repair is $25,000. There is no insurance that covers that! There is still no internet at the cabin so I cannot begin to do any zoom teaching.

The tree people are coming back Saturday to finish removing all the fallen trees. Another $4,000 expense that comes out of our own pocket.
My brain is having a difficult time computing all this madness. And of course, there is much more that I am omitting.

Each evening, I drive over to“The Railyard” to pick up donated hot meals. That is our dinner. The FEMA hotel room has running water, hence, a working bathroom where I can take a shower and FLUSH!!!!
This sounds like quite a lot of complaining and I apologize. I know we are lucky to be alive, but we are moving into week 5 of this catastrophe and I do not see any end in sight. My nerves are starting to “fray”!
 
Cooper today said the State loss total for Helene was 53 Billion
Cooper’s budget director Kristin Walker said that of the $53.6 billion in estimated damages in North Carolina, the state anticipates that the federal government will cover about $13.6 billion and insurance or other private sector payments might total about $6.3 billion. That leaves $33.8 billion in losses still unaccounted for.
Sweet Jesus
 
mpaer said:
Cooper today said the State loss total for Helene was 53 Billion
Cooper’s budget director Kristin Walker said that of the $53.6 billion in estimated damages in North Carolina, the state anticipates that the federal government will cover about $13.6 billion and insurance or other private sector payments might total about $6.3 billion. That leaves $33.8 billion in losses still unaccounted for.
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Damn.

Just damn.
 
I assume when the veto proof Legislature passes a relieve Bill it will have a provison about transgenders playing volleyball-or some such
 
95 confirmed dead, 26 missing in North Carolina following Hurricane Helene

by WLOS Staff

Tue, October 22nd 2024 at 4:46 PM

Updated Tue, October 22nd 2024 at 4:47 PM

VIDEO EMBEDDED HERE

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — North Carolina officials confirmedthat 26 people remain unaccounted for and 95 are confirmed dead from Hurricane Helene's impact in North Carolina.

Gov. Roy Cooper and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell joined other state officials during a visit to the Community Care Station in Asheville on Monday.

The governor provided updated information about the state and federal response to Helene and called for the spread of misinformation to stop, arguing it only hurts the victims who need help the most.

Many survivors of this storm lost everything. They want help, and they want the truth. We should work together to give them both," Cooper said. "Storm recovery can not be partisan. To truly help people, we must check party politics at the door and get this job done."

In a press release after Monday's news briefing, Cooper listed improvements and relief efforts since Helene ripped through the mountains three weeks ago.

As of Oct. 21, the state said about 5,000 customers are still without power. That's down from more than 1 million on Sept. 27 just after the storm.

Cell phone coverage in the region has primarily been restored after it was wiped out at the end of September. According to the governor's office, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has reopened 789 roads of the approximately 1,200 roads that were closed after being washed out or damaged in the storm. NCDOT is using 900 pieces of equipment and has more than 2,000 employees working to reopen the remaining roads closed.

The governor's office said while seven school districts remain closed, 28 districts across the mountains are back in the classroom. Two more districts were expected to return to instruction this week.

As many as 765 people were rescued by the North Carolina National Guard soldiers and other military personnel in conjunction with first responders and swift water teams who rescued hundreds more, according to Monday's news release.

The state has confirmed 95 fatalities, a number which has remained stable since Monday, Oct. 14. There are still 26 people unaccounted for, according to numbers from the North Carolina Department of Public Safety.

Because road access was limited, the state, local, and federal governments, working with nonprofits and volunteers, used a system for aerial delivery of supplies and commodities like water, food and medicine. The governor's office said supplies were brought into the Asheville Regional Airport by plane and then delivered to other parts of Western North Carolina by helicopter. At the height of this operation, more than 30 planes and helicopters and 1,200 ground vehicles were in use. More than 27 million pounds of food and water were delivered by the state and federal government, with more being brought by nonprofits and charities, according to the news release.

95 confirmed dead, 26 missing in North Carolina following Hurricane Helene
 
The Concert for Carolina is tonight in Charlotte at Bank of America stadium. They are in a delay now because of rain.
 
mpaer said:
Cooper today said the State loss total for Helene was 53 Billion
Cooper’s budget director Kristin Walker said that of the $53.6 billion in estimated damages in North Carolina, the state anticipates that the federal government will cover about $13.6 billion and insurance or other private sector payments might total about $6.3 billion. That leaves $33.8 billion in losses still unaccounted for.
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This whole thing is apocalyptic. Being from the Asheville area, my social media is littered with GoFundMe's. I wish I could help them all.
 
bridgetender said:
This whole thing is apocalyptic. Being from the Asheville area, my social media is littered with GoFundMe's. I wish I could help them all.
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We all can-must-do a little more I guess I did a few things-well I got my "paycheck" (pension ) this week-time for another contribution It is pretty much unheard of in my life the way towns were destroyed
 
Apparently Black Mountain and Old Fort were only flooded because water was released from dams, that would be the prevailing theory from the tin foil hat brigade.
 
Carolina Fever said:
The concert they had in Charlotte last night raised over 24 million. Tepper might be running the Panthers into the ground, but he let them have the concert there for free, and all the concession revenue was donated.
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Eric Church also announced at the show that 100% of the merch sales was being donated. The parking prices at the Preferred Parking lots was $40 (normally $30 in those lots) and signs were up noting that although prices were higher than usual, 100% of the parking revenue was being donated.
 
Went to the Raleigh Music for Mountains gig at Red Hat tonight Realllll fun . Old Crow Medicine Show was the Headliner Chatham County Line , Fancy Gap , Bj Barrum (sp?) Hope some of you music aficionados went Bought a lot of Tee Shirts, CDs etc LOL (Well yea some Beers)
Actually a few tears also
 
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PROGRESS for western NC. I-26 now has one lane now open in each direction between mile markers 39 and 40 near the Tennessee line. There is hope that a similar setup will happen with I-40 on one side of the interstate as repairs are made to the most damaged areas. Photos from TDOT.

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