That's a big thing! Glad they are helping.Posted by pyrangello (here)
In my community here in Mid Michigan locals are coming together to send a trailer down on Saturday and another load a few days after that from the local farmers loaded with bails of hay. My buddy who is leaving Saturday was told by his contact in the Carolinas they will give him directions and if he gets stopped by Fema not to disclose what he is delivering as they will take the supplies. He is to come direct to them to drop off the supplies. I think all of us have had it with the incompetency of FEMA. Farmers here have said they will donate as much as that is needed.![]()
It's not getting much attention but many many people lost horses, cows and all kinds of livestock. The ones that made it through the floods etc now have little to nothing to eat and are threatened with starvation.
I'm here in Eastern North Georgia just on the edge of all the damage and am hearing all kinds of unbelievable first hand on the ground stories, a lot is really hard to comprehend.
I heard from a builder that I work for in Cashiers today that I haven't heard from since the storm hit and he somehow made it to his sons house in Asheville last week to check on him. His sons house and property are pretty damaged but they are ok. He couldn't even explain to me what he seen traveling there and back it was so bad. I'm going to Cashiers tomorrow to try to finish up a job I'm doing for him and hopefully hear how he actually made it to Asheville last week, I know that had to be a dangerous, stressful, and heartbreaking ride. I'm honestly surprised he actually made it there due to the road conditions and the news saying no way in and no way out of Asheville.
He told me they just got power on at his place in Cashiers NC 2 days ago. So even the places outside of the huge perimeter of massive destruction, they got hammered real good too. The true scope of the actual disaster area is so large, no other disaster that I can think of compares to this, other than what many went through in WW2 in other countries.
With winter and cold weather moving in, huge numbers of people are in big trouble and facing changing dynamics and new and dangerous challenges. It's already getting cold there at night in most areas, especially in higher elevations.




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