I happened to be about 15 miles outside of Asheville when this hit. I have NEVER seen anything like this before. Yes, I've seen all the footage of Katrina, but this was absolutely the craziest thing I have ever witnessed. The highways were all closed. The airport was closed. Well water is pumped with electricity, so there was no water, no power, no cell service, no way of communicating, no way of getting gas. Even the police had no service.
The amazing thing was the community coming together to help one another. Several of mom's neighbors are MAGAs, and at the same time, there are many liberals just outside Asheville (Asheville is a blue island in a red sea). Nevertheless, everyone came together. People who had generators knocked on my mom's door asking if they needed to get her drinking water. I have never seen the damage I saw and I hope I never see it again. Candle light as soon as the sun went down, no showers for 4 days, getting water to FLUSH THE TOILETS from a hot tub.
No one could get down the highways because huge trees and debris was all over the roads. Cars piled on top of cars. Enormous trees fell on top of homes, places were swept away by the water. This is the 5th most deadly storms in U.S. history and will soon be the 4th. I saw Chinook after Chinook helicopters leaving the airport delivering supplies.
Why are MAGAs the biggest complainers about EVERYTHING? So now FEMAs funding is the problem? No one could even get down the highway. And I can say, how on earth can they get to everyone? Believe me, they tried. I was so impressed by the community effort. I'm so tired of the pathetic whiners.
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