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Posted on 09/29/2024 12:56:07 PM PDT by CFW
More than 1,000 people have been reported unaccounted for in a devastated North Carolina county where 10 people have already been confirmed dead after Hurricane Helene, officials said Sunday.
Authorities in Buncombe County reported the horrifying toll in an emergency meeting announcing emergency medical shelters and ongoing rescue efforts in areas almost overwhelmed by stormwater.
They also announced a special website to appeal for help finding those unaccounted for — with “more than 1,000 reports so far,” one local official told the live-streamed meeting.
“We’re doing the best we can,” Buncombe County Sheriff Quentin Miller said of conditions making it almost impossible to reach the stranded due to collapsed roads, failing infrastructure and widespread flooding.
Many of the unaccounted for are hoped to just be those without electricity and efforts to let loved ones know they are safe, officials said.
However, the county, home to Asheville, already has 10 of the Tar Heel State’s 11 confirmed deaths — a terrible toll expected to soon rise, Gov. Roy Cooper conceded.
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The transmitting station doesn’t need power for short messaging. Ideally, you do this first before depleting laptop, tablet or phone battery. Spare batterys for HT is stanard practice for hams. All part of the go bag. Hams involved in emcom have all this in a go box or go bag.
If using say a 20 watt HF radio like Xeigu G-90, then a 6 AH battery will last hours. A 20 AH battery in a battery box will power most all things needed for more hours than you need.
Omg no they are not! Have you been to Asheville??? It’s the mountain version of Austin Texas except a little more weird and very very woke
Hadn’t thought of Elon, but he’s another auxiliary for Team Trump. Starlink patches for broken comms and allows news to get around MSM propaganda. Whatever relief materials he supplies will be appreciated, just don’t send them via Tesla vehicles.
The random individual does not need to worry about all of these, all they need to do is to get in contact with amateurs in their community that practice emcom and WINLINK messaging.
What the individual can do is be part of a local GMRS network for their greater neighborhood. A GMRS network can be tied into local hams and those hams can make contact with others. These things are practiced by many hams involved in ARES, RACES and CERT...
As cell tower trailers are brought in within 72 hours into affected regions then these amateur radio services are needed less and less as time goes by post disaster.
No one could have predicted this...
Yes rain was coming...but 2’ was not predicted.
Well the people stuck in Western NC now have no cell service, no water, no power, and are trying to survive. Unless they have carrier pigeons, they are SOL at this point. Most people are not professional preppers. My husband and I were lucky to get out of SW Florida on a Delta flight on Wednesday afternoon to Raleigh, NC and thank heavens things are fine here. We are level headed and plan ahead, but again, not professional preppers. Yes, we have food stored up and luckily are on a well for clean water and have solar backup. But even all that would only get us by for a few days in these dire circumstances. Understand, this is a once in a century storm. No holding the victims responsible for their predicament.
Oh, no! 🙏
Yes rain was coming...but 2’ was not predicted.
I'm lucky. Power went out. So did the water and the internet. Now it's back up. Last thing to work is the water.
Calm down and focus on people outside of Asheville. “Asheville” is a broad brush…but people ignore it. I’m proud of my friends outside of “Asheville”…they had powers for a few hours and used it to help neighbors…and now we haven’t heard anything again.
…. conditions making it almost impossible to reach the stranded due to collapsed roads, failing infrastructure …
KommieLa’s infrastructure.
Prayers up for these people
Praying rescues are happening as we type.
Good points
Wow. I had thought about moving to western NC a couple of yrs ago. Glad I didn’t.
During the Paradise Fire, in which all cell service was obliterarted as the extremely fast fire moved at a rate of a football field a minute.—I had friends stuck in the middle of town—the only way to keep in contact with them was via amateur radio. I knew they were alive and considering the dicey circumstances—relatively well.
But the posts I make regarding this issue will not currently help the poor folks affected by the hurricane. But I make them because maybe one or two people will realize that setting up a GMRS Neighborhood Radio network is not that hard to do—tying that into local amateurs is even better. Even taking CERT training will be cream on top.
My posts are aimed at those folks—because we are on our own the first 72 hours of a disaster—and this is a disaster. Neighborhoods armed with GMRS radios can keep tabs on each other—the little lady down the street living alone—the single mother with two kids—you get the idea...
Well said
OMG.
“Over the Atlantic and East Pacific, tropical cyclones are commonly called “hurricanes.” The common term is “typhoon” for a tropical cyclone that forms in the West Pacific. Tropical cyclones are called just “cyclones” in the Indian Ocean and near Australia.”
https://gpm.nasa.gov/resources/faq/what-difference-between-typhoon-cyclone-and-hurricane
Amateur radio is a great thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKN1-yHLZQA
“I-40 shoulder washed away in North Carolina in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Helene”
“Specifiable Buncombe County. Where did you get the idea that the whole SE had to evacuate?”
You’re making my point. Hindsight. That’s what was unpredictable — exactly where in the SE the devastation would occur.
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