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There are serious communication issues when a certain set of people are deliberately blowing air horns in your face when you try to tell them the truth and they then claim they can’t hear you.

Just a fraction of critical thinking can help these folks but ignorance is a flag waved way more proudly.
 
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From Drew Reisinger, Buncombe Register of Deeds.

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1,425 volunteers — managed by a team of hundreds of volunteers — through the Family Assistance Center at the Buncombe Co. Register of Deeds deployed to check on 10,493 high priority households with 2,000+ care packages distributed. 7,491 of our neighbors confirmed safe and sound by volunteers, and via email and text, as of Thursday, October 3, 2024. More volunteers needed to assist in welfare checks of high priority households. Volunteers, please report from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm at 205 College St., Asheville, NC 28801. Donations of food, water, toiletries, baby formula, dog food, etc. can be dropped off, as well.

Today’s Good News

Sixteen members of the Gastonia, North Carolina, SWAT team assisted in welfare checks throughout Swannanoa and Black Mountain.

Katie, from our Remote Data Team while confirming "safe and sounds," sent the following email. She writes, "I spoke with a man yesterday who had submitted a loved one's name for the welfare checks. He said he was a first responder in NJ and had been so impressed by the organization and coordinated response by the Family Assistance Center. He and many others expressed their gratitude and relief. I just wanted to pass the message along and thank you all for making such a huge impact."

thehumankatie on Instagram, an Asheville native, recently retired as a stripper but is coming out of retirement to raise funds to support relief efforts.

My favorite thing that happened today was that we started the Flush Brigade! There is a festering public health problem our community must take serious. This team helped flush every toilet in Aston Towers, Terrace Apartments, Klondike and Maple Crest. It's a shitty job, but you get to be a flushing hero.”
 
mpaer said:
In Buncombe County, N.C., where an entire town disappeared beneath floodwaters, less than 1 percent of households had flood insurance. In Unicoi County, Tenn., where dozens of residents were stranded atop a hospital roof as waters rose, it was under 2 percent.
This does not work. I will be the first to say building Houses in Flood Zones does not work either
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Without knowing the details of those areas, I will first say I’m not surprised. Second I will say that I initially doubt that the houses were built on a flood plain and didn’t carry flood insurance. The rocky river backs up to my property line I. Cabarrus county. I live on a hill and am probably a good 40 feet or more above the river level. I had to have flood insurance initially when I purchased the house because one small corner of the original lot before construction was on a 100 year flood plain.

The likelihood is these people were NOT in a 100 or even 500 year flood plain. Remember that they are saying this was a 1000 year flood event. Typically, paying flood insurance for a house outside of a 100 year flood plain is a waster of money.
 
donbosco said:
thehumankatie on Instagram, an Asheville native, recently retired as a stripper but is coming out of retirement to raise funds to support relief efforts.
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ZZLP, I think I’ve figured out how we can do our part to help after this terrible disaster.
 
CLT Heel said:
Without knowing the details of those areas, I will first say I’m not surprised. Second I will say that I initially doubt that the houses were built on a flood plain and didn’t carry flood insurance. The rocky river backs up to my property line I. Cabarrus county. I live on a hill and am probably a good 40 feet or more above the river level. I had to have flood insurance initially when I purchased the house because one small corner of the original lot before construction was on a 100 year flood plain.

The likelihood is these people were NOT in a 100 or even 500 year flood plain. Remember that they are saying this was a 1000 year flood event. Typically, paying flood insurance for a house outside of a 100 year flood plain is a waster of money.
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Exactly. There's no food zone mapped for 1000 year events. They do Zone AE where you must have insurance, and that's 100 year (for mapped streams).

You can check online DFIRM data to see . ..I will look up Asheville later.

Some places have 500 year boundaries mapped but most don't... But insurance isn't required there. I would have it though, if I were in anything close to a zone ae these days
 
My neighbor in 7D said she took supplies up to 7D earlier this week. I assume she took Tynecastle from 105 but didn’t confirm; she did say that at the time they had built a temporary land bridge where a bridge had washed out. But the land bridge started to become unsafe for car traffic while she was up there and they closed the road again. Took her the rest of the day to inch back some back ways (and ate a good bit of gas when she couldn’t refuel).

Anyway, she said there was nonstop helicopter traffic overhead while she was there (and there was nonstop helicopter traffic over 7D while I was there on Wednesday).

 
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