With all of western North Carolina and parts of eastern Tennessee roads damaged, destroyed or simply gone, any estimation of repair costs is far underestimated. I present to you a rundown of the first day of Octobers images and words from those on the ground first hand. Real time disaster coverage and updates NC and TN HAM RADIO NETWORK https://www.broadcastify.com/webPlaye...
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good afternoon everyone updates on North
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Carolina Devastation repeaters you can
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listen to for live updates that are
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coming out of the mountains the
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Network's now linked to multiple
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locations we got the strike going on
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ports goods are going to cease
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immediately and then we got massive
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fires and disruptions already in Supply
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chains let's take a look at it
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I want to start you off here I'm also in
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contact with those that are up in
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Newport
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Tennessee doing emergency relief work up
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there and if you are anywhere in
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Nashville and you can pass a message
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they are unveiling starlink stations
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effectively now so the first ones that
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are open Double Tree Hilton downtown now
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in addition to the Port strike uh this
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is the Engles Distribution Center here
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remember credit cards are not working
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working nothing's working there's no
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payr systems and people are taking cash
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or silver at the moment for payments
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open cash only these are the signs that
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are starting to be seen across many
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location but the Looting has started
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there's no police presence and those
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that are on networks now telling people
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to protect themselves isolated from the
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World Asheville residents Scavenging for
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food and this is through areas that were
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flooded people are actually looking for
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food and if we come up here
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toles this is in Black Mountain I was
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unable to get a hold of Engles home
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office before the video I waited till
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9:00 I called like three or four times
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couldn't get them they're stationing
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police in front of the Engles so you
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cannot go in there at the moment because
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they have no way to pay and this will is
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a travesty you know Engles shame on you
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you should be opening these stores and
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giving that food away instead of posting
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police office out there protect your
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property and the address there you can
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easily see 550 and if you look up the
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store locator that's exactly where it is
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in Black Mountain now Asheville is
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tremendously destroyed all bridges going
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in there are cut off and everything west
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of there is literally there's towns
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three towns so far scoured away like
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completely gone only foundations of some
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remnants remain go roads gone buildings
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gone everything gone now you can listen
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live on repeater 145.
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35 that's whiskey for hotel Tango Papa
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broadcastify now this has been linked
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through multiple repeaters that are up
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and finally
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functional and I want you to get a
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glimpse of how fast this water came down
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and the evacuation orders were late and
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once the the slides started they started
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and there was nowhere to go it happened
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so fast and inundation was all
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encompassing anywhere there was a stream
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but there is some hopefulness out of
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this Farm dogs there are leading the
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cattle to safety and this is the one of
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the best images I could find of the day
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another barricade i19 Interstate 19 is
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now closed you know so those of you
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bringing relief supplies in there on
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your four-wheelers Etc they're now
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stopping people and threatening them
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with arrest for bringing food supplies
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into those that are in need of relief
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which is reprehensible as a as a kind
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term so if we're looking at the water
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levels here this is the water level that
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had swept through the cities so you're
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looking at a good 10 12T and this is
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everywhere that had a stream or river in
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it which is everywhere in the mountains
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basically all places are affected West
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North Carolina now this is the 1916
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flood after maath here pulled the
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archive
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photos Bank of America said do what
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central banks are doing by gold gold is
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NASDAQ only
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177% reports coming out of a Samsung
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solid state battery breakthrough sent
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silver skyrocketing JP Morgan forecast
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silver to surpass $36 an ounce in
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546
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7020 and now on with the
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video but it doesn't look like the you
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would see mud on the walls if there were
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and I enlarged a photo here and and
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zoomed it in to look for mud flood marks
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on there but they just this is the
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height of the water that was achieved
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you see people standing back there so
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the low-lying areas really got it but
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it's still even in 1916 was nowhere
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close to being as high as this now when
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the flood water started you know the
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evacuation orders were given and it just
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came down in neighborhoods in cities
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Factory zones business Parks it doesn't
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matter the entire scene of all of
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Western North Carolina looked like this
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people stranded on the roofs now this is
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a warehouse so you can obviously get
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engaged now these people were rescued
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eventually by
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helicopter another good final ending and
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this if you can believe it is after the
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floods had stopped after the rain had
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stopped and this was the flood
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dissipating in
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Asheville after the rain stopped and it
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was finally starting to flow out but
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everywhere that there was like a say a
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stream or a river or a tributary or a
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creek every single bit of habitation I
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really believe 100 billion is far far
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too low for the numbers of the damage
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now that I'm truly seeing here in
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Earnest it's just town after town
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there's nowhere that didn't get damaged
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now the thing is the The Rescuers the
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response the Emergency Food Supplies the
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emergency fuel supplies were also washed
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away or damaged now now you're looking
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at lows here and the tractor trailers
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that got ripped up and then you know
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you're looking at some of these
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warehousing facilities that were
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destroyed as well I'll bring it back to
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the Engles here because that's what I
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mean this is a major Food Distribution
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Center here
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for North Carolina and Parts East so
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expect if you're on an Engles
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distribution system here in the
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Southeast especially Tennessee to get
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lean real quick and then we got the Port
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strike coming in so it's going to get
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double lean double quick
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now Aver County here in North Carolina
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this is what their emergency response
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and road workking
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crews uh have left to deal with their
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Machinery is damaged as well to even get
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the roads clear they have to bring in
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new Machinery from elsewhere to get the
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roads
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clear and if even if there are roads
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left you know this is what you consider
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a strip mall that's that same Lowe's
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that was torn apart there but this is
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what the roads look there's no roads the
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roads are gone in so many thousands of
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places thousands tens of thousands of
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places there's no more roads they've
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been ripped up Asphalt gone and even the
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major interstates are impassible still
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on I85 I40 I74 and then you saw i19 they
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closed their Interstate 19 now the cell
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towers are down and this is where people
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are trying to get Communications in they
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don't even know if the cell towers are
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still there Avery County again the
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mudslides have taken out an enormous
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amount of infrastructure cell tower wise
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as well and if we look at the debris
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that's left over and I've seen this
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firsthand after the floods in Tennessee
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last year coming down small streams
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turned into raging torrents and left the
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same exact scoured trees just
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logs you know and then it's piling up
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this is what they saw on Bridges so now
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they need to get through this before
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they can even look to see if there's any
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damage on the bridges this needs to be
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cleared out they have very little
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Machinery very little fuel they're
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trying to chainsaw through but it this
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is the scene that is the normal of the
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post flood debris that needs to be
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cleaned out and it in the mud you got
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all the and it is so tangled it is very
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difficult to get through that mud flow
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debris like that I've experienced it
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myself a couple of times you need
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chainsaws you basically need to burn it
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and it goes without saying you know
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people are with hot power still Millions
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plural millions of people without power
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and then they're trying to quash any
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types of Citizen relief operations so
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here when they told you not to walk into
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the park I did that a couple days ago
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where big sign don't ride horses don't
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walk don't take your ATVs this is why
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this is a hiking trail and the roads are
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gone you know so the further they're
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getting into the mountains to take
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images now there's just no way to really
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get in except by helicopter and then
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those helicopter Pilots were threatened
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with arrest if they went back up to pull
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people
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out now this came from the same team
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that I have contact with that's up in
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Newport that's further up into North
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Carolina and this is what they're
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looking at for the roads the devastation
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is all encompassing I there's nowhere
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that's not damaged that's the whole
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point
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like from this point you you're walking
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in you're putting it on a sled you're
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taking a horse in or then that's it and
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the Looting is out of control at the
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moment like way out of
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control but it it's from zero to four
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days you're on your own and you know
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what's
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coming and here at more warehouses and
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distribution centers water logged and
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everything damage are destroyed in there
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and supermarkets that are can't accept
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cash payments you need to release the
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food to the people I know your
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refrigeration's gone and all the milk
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products I get it but that canned goods
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and anything in there the water that
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needs to go out to the public write it
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off you write everything else off and
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get tax
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breaks so then if you're looking at the
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river there uh over sweeping on the
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banks to wherever it hit on the side of
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a um you know the mountain I mean you're
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in a valley the water can only go so
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high and it scours everything that's not
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higher on elevation and it's the same
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thing you know you have to look at the
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tributaries and how many streams and
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wherever that water went it it finally
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reached somewhere going uphill and when
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it did everything in that trough was
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scoured or damaged or you know this is
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what the small towns across all of North
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Carolina look like the entire half of
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the state is like this still underwater
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where it didn't drain yet it's a slow
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draining
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process I mean literally everywhere
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these are Office Buildings thorough fars
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roads catastrophic flooding and this is
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in the builtmore area so if you know the
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builtmore state and you've been in North
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Carolina and see this is what builtmore
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area looks like builtmore Village you
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know this probably get rebuilt first
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there's a lot of money here a lot of
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Tourism to come back and then you know
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you're looking at the roads this is a
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average Road you know the Drone footage
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I mean there's tens of thousands of
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areas like this with washed away roads
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these people are running out of water
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and food no help in sight barely except
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barely coming into Asheville nobody's up
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in the mountains and if the citizens are
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trying to get up there they're being
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warned Away by the law enforcement you
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can't go deliver goods and then if you
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think you know buying a used car there's
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going to be a lot of water damage used
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cars coming on the market so if you
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watch used car prices drop because
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there's going to be a glut but they're
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all going to have some water damage to
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them and in addition to this you know
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we're looking at the the ports not
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potential anymore I got this the last
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night it was before midnight so notice
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the the markings on the bottom there the
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gold price at 2611 and I keep this as a
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snapshot for future reference to show
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your grandkids on how ridiculous the
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stock market got up to Gold oil's up
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Gold's up Silver's up everything up and
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we're going into a strike here where all
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of our goods are you know going to be
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delayed coming off of here and then we
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got this massive chemical fire which
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they've sort of barely extinguished kind
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of but you see the red and the black
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smoke there hazardous traveled 30 miles
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just imagine seeing this on the
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interstate
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here but you know you got the oranges
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mixed in there as well and then if you
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got this is some 30 minutes driving
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which approximately 30 to 40 mil away
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from that this is the air quality now
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they say it's safe to breathe it's all
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good just head outside play tennis ride
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a bike bring your kids out it's all good
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it's all safe it's all
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safe you I'll I'll leave that link for
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the video below that was talking about
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the pilots coming on saying they'll be
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arrested and then others saying you
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know they put up the roadblocks and
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they're just not allowed up to go up and
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help and you need to ask why because so
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far the emergency response ain't doing
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it not even close not even 1/5th of 1/8
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of 1,000th of 1% close to doing anything
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up there the citizens are helping each
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other neighbors are helping each other
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families are helping each other ham
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networks up and live nothing else is
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happening yeah gez you know these
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supermarkets need to release their food
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and not put the police out in front
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because they can't accept
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payments anyway I'll stop here I do
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thank you for watching please pass the
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message around I'm trying to get all
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this information out we all need to get
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help up to these people up here right
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now
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