Hurricane Helene

[frankenyoter]

Road to my parents place down 9. My sister and own it and my buddy rents there. His rent is so cheap I end up paying a little to cover insurance and taxes.

Beautiful 6 acre property. The house is perfectly preserved. Only some leaves that need removed from deck.

This is part of the 1 mile road to get there off the pavement.

The creek changed directions and cut it to bedrock. Part of the road is visible to the left and above my buddy

 

[frankenyoter]

The photos don’t do it justice. Difficult to capture the full scope of a landslide for instance.

This landslide came from across the creek and landed in our property. It’s about 100 yards long.

 

[Mac5005]

Is this legit or more FB false narrative BS?

 

[frankenyoter]

Road.

No road.

 

[R Q]

Our boy Brian Sutton @viper red cj-7 bringing his crew to the disaster to do what they do best. https://www.qcnews.com/charlotte/tr...mobile-hospital-deploys-to-aid-storm-victims/

 

[frankenyoter]

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Is this legit or more FB false narrative BS?

I’m just coming back around to the world a week later, but I’d heard Biden snubbed us. Thoughts and prayers with continue to contribute to local charity’s BS. Zero saber rattling the calvery is on the way. Biden didn’t bother stopping and just flew over eating ice cream and watching a movie with his favorite blanket.

 

[Monkeynono]

We need baby stuff. And lots of clothes. People that lost it all but got out alive have no clothes.

going to try and wrangle up some clothes tomorrow and head that way. I have a truck and can haul supplies if needed

 

[frankenyoter]

This landed on the upper Ridgecrest bridge yesterday and was nipping tree limbs with rotors when a gust pushed over the mountain.

Unloaded a crap ton of insulin on dry ice to an ambulance and left.

 

[Noel]

Heading up Saturday morning to meet with @frankenyoter to dig up into the woods to carry supplies to people who are cut off. If anyone else wants to send anything just let me know. Got tons of meds and stuff already loaded up along with shelf stable foods and protein shakes and such. Gonna go in a big shopping spree tomorrow after I get another updated needs list.

 

[CLRracer]

I gotta admit...Ive never been a first responder, EMT, fireman, or armed service member. I cant compare to what those folks have seen.
What I saw his weekend...well it wont ever leave my mind.

It just re-enforces the power of mother nature.

Thankfully I've never been deployed to things like this, but knowing what bad shit I HAVE seen, and to hear what they are seeing now, I KNOW people will need mental help long after the physical wounds heal. My wife had an incident at work and CISD/peer support really helped her, and now we advocate for it as much as we can. I may not always know what to say, but I can listen to people talk all day or get them in touch with someone who does know what to say.

If you or ANYONE needs to talk, hit me up.

Duane

 

[1-tonmudder]

News told today that the road from Hot spring thru paint creek in TN will be closed for a undetermined amount of time due a tile being washed out and major road damage.Also they are warning people about what is in the water and they are warning against contact.I know the house we were at yesterday had sewage in the basement of it. Jake was out today delivering supplies/food from a collection center to a distribution point and about got cut off by a bridge closure.He wasnt familiar w that part of the county and was using his phone for navigation but it kept sending him down closed roads.By the time he got it figured out and headed the right way they had closed a bridge he needed to go over.I guess it was a good thing it took him so long to get there or he would have been stranded.The auction company Jake auctions for has been collecting stuff and they sent a truck load of stuff and volunteers to Burnsville today.We were told one of the things they were requesting were body bags.She(the auctioneers wife) had a big stack of em when we talked to her yesterday.We got water back about 2;30 today.

 

[1-tonmudder]

Thankfully I've never been deployed to things like this, but knowing what bad shit I HAVE seen, and to hear what they are seeing now, I KNOW people will need mental help long after the physical wounds heal. My wife had an incident at work and CISD/peer support really helped her, and now we advocate for it as much as we can. I may not always know what to say, but I can listen to people talk all day or get them in touch with someone who does know what to say.

If you or ANYONE needs to talk, hit me up.

Duane

Gonna be alot of survivor's guilt (among other things) when this is over.

 

[CarolinaHD]

Made it to Creston today and delivered the goods. They were completely out of diesel when we arrived so they filled up their machines and got right back to work. Everyone was friendly and staying positive. Said it took 3 days of cutting and clearing to get to the fire station then another day of shoveling out 3’ of mud by hand.

Getting up with @Noel in the morning then making a run to @frankenyoter. Bringing 250 body bags from my wife’s work as well. Not looking forward to this.

 

[DSM Turbos]

Waiting to see if my work will allow me to use it since satellite internet isn’t currently approved for remote work. They like to suggest alternate worksites for power/internet outages….my closest relative with good internet is 4 1/2 hours away lol.

That is just stupid, what is their logic?


Has anybody also seen the stuff about the lithium mine going around fb? I guess it isn't actually in that are they keep saying it is.
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The lithium mine was never in Chimney Rock/Lake Lure. It's in Kings Mountain, 80 miles away.

Anybody know more about this and if there really is anything up in the Lake Lure area?

 

[DSM Turbos]

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Is this legit or more FB false narrative BS?

I wouldn't doubt that some of these towns will never be rebuilt. The cost for some of these small areas is going to outweigh the rebuild.

I’m just coming back around to the world a week later, but I’d heard Biden snubbed us. Thoughts and prayers with continue to contribute to local charity’s BS. Zero saber rattling the calvery is on the way. Biden didn’t bother stopping and just flew over eating ice cream and watching a movie with his favorite blanket.

Thats honestly best for any president to do right now. With all the security, road closures, etc that a president brings, we don't need that crap in the way at all right now. Hell even him flying caused airspace to close which we don't need now. His motorcade can't even get to many of the areas right now. Get politicians out of the way, and let the people on the ground do what they need to do.



Watched a couple good YouTube last night also showing some areas.

Insane how much water came through this area -

 

[gslander]

That is just stupid, what is their logic?


Has anybody also seen the stuff about the lithium mine going around fb? I guess it isn't actually in that are they keep saying it is.
Welcome to Albemarle Kings Mountain Global Specialty Chemicals Company | Albemarle Kings Mountain


Anybody know more about this and if there really is anything up in the Lake Lure area?

It's not anywhere near there, it's in gaston county.

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[DSM Turbos]

It's not anywhere near there, it's in gaston county.

Carolina Lithium - Piedmont Lithium

CAROLINA LITHIUM Ideal U.S. Location. Strong Market Fundamentals. Historic Spodumene Belt. Carolina Lithium is a proposed, multi-phase, fully integrated lithium project in Gaston County, North Carolina, with mining, spodumene concentrate production, and lithium hydroxide conversion being...

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Love the bad info that is being passed around! Thats the same that I found.

 

[gslander]

Love the bad info that is being passed around! Thats the same that I found.

I remember reading about that in the news a few years ago when they were working on permits, people are dumb. There should be a bunch of articles online about it pre hurricane.

 

[shawn]

just stupid, what is their logic?

Bet the policy predates starlink and is based on latency and throughput. It wasn't that long ago that satellite Internet was download only with terrestrial upstream.

 

[OnlyOneDR]

Bet the policy predates Starlink and is based on latency and throughput. It is ridiculous and archaic but Hughesnet satellite Internet is still download only with terrestrial upstream and super low data caps.

FTFY

We stayed in an AirBnB cabin in Pigeon Forge earlier this summer that had Viasat internet; it was decent enough to stream on the TV and do "normal" things on tablets and phones. I was pretty impressed and their rates for the service were not terrible. Definitely put Hughes to shame.

 

[k5-1402]

That is just stupid, what is their logic?


Has anybody also seen the stuff about the lithium mine going around fb? I guess it isn't actually in that are they keep saying it is.
Welcome to Albemarle Kings Mountain Global Specialty Chemicals Company | Albemarle Kings Mountain


Anybody know more about this and if there really is anything up in the Lake Lure area?

I know there is no lithium mine in rutherford county which is where lake lure and chimney rock are. I grew up there and still have a lot of family there.

 

[jcramsey]

That is just stupid, what is their logic?

It’s the .gov so I will let you draw your own conclusions.

Also this.

Bet the policy predates starlink and is based on latency and throughput. It wasn't that long ago that satellite Internet was download only with terrestrial upstream.

But my buddy works for a private company thats currently on a contract for our agency and he uses Starlink to work remotely so

 

[Bebop]

Waiting to see if my work will allow me to use it since satellite internet isn’t currently approved for remote work.

How would they know?

 

[1stgenxxx]

Not sure the exact path yet but unbreakable and I are hauling bails of hay up near Boone Saturday morning. We should have some extra room to haul supplies from Lenoir to Boone.

 

[mbalbritton]

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Is this legit or more FB false narrative BS?

Buck Creek Rd in Marion? isn't that State Road 80 that comes out of Micaville, over the Blue Ridge and down to Marion?

I don't get it, the Army Corp of Engineers... this is what they do! They build bridges and fix roads and open pathways.

To play devils advocate (not a popular thing to do, but I try to look at things from various points to understand) Is the fear that the side of the mountain is in jeopardy of a slide? are they trying to protect people? What would they gain by closing it down? is there some sort of valuable resource they would want to acquire?


Either:
1. It's a legit protection of life
2. It's a land grab
3. It's a BS story