Floppin

Coker is legit.

2 minutes ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

Hold on playa you swimming out in the middle of ocean water?

 

 

 

Hold on playa. You think people don't swim at the beach?

But if you've suffered anything that's claimable with FEMA you'll get that $750 immediately. Now you can probably do it if you haven't but when the FEMA assessors come and look at your stuff they'll probably fine you and add it to your taxes or something.

20 minutes ago, Candler Cat said:

Can that be applied for online?

Yeah. That's what I had my guys who lost their homes do. They got 750 direct deposited in like 3 hrs after the application. They didn't meet with the actual FEMA guy until this Sunday which was 5 days later and he did the actual damage assessment then. They'll get their actual disbursement in like 7-10 days

4 hours ago, Panthers Fan 69 said:

What will you be doing with whole $750 they so graciously are giving you? Btw, I wonder if you will have to pay taxes on that money at the end of the year. 

The $750 is an immediate approval for just immediate food and supplies or whatever. It's not your FEMA disbursement.

13 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I saw the bodies floating at the Spruce Pine Ingles rumor and it was pretty quickly shot down. There was also a rumor about naked kids running around screaming looking for the parents that was attributed to Spruce Pine. 

There are probably tiny kernels of truth behind all these rumors that then take flight and grow into something totally different. Yeah, there have been bodies found in streams. Yeah, there have been children separated from parents. All this poo has happened but these occurrences take off and grow like wildfire into something way more than what they actually were. The reality is plenty bad enough as is without hyperbole.

Yeah I mean. He told me about that before it became the Internet rumor and it makes me think it started in the emergency response community. He WAS coordinating the trucks but turns out it was for something else. He just allowed himself to connect the dots by suggestion alone.

I mean I've seen and smelled bodies. I watched the pull the girl that was smashed up against the bridge pilings in front of my shop out of the water the day before yesterday.

I've been in the area every day with my equipment and people since Saturday of last week. But tragedy makes for rumor and on and on

1 minute ago, Panthers Fan 69 said:

It’s not false.  My friends that were out there earlier in the week reported bodies in trees in the valley, but they could not get to them because the valley was impossible to get to. Also yesterday in certain spots medical people had to leave bodies and trees because they knew they were already dead to help people potentially still in the mud that were alive

Yeah I'm not discounting what you said but he specifically told me about bodies at the Ingles because that's what was relayed to him by another emergency responder.

3 hours ago, jayboogieman said:

 

Yep. It's crazy the rumor mill. Even my friend from highschool who's an Avery county EMS that I mentioned earlier on the thread who told me about bodies in spruce pine that he was having to coordinate refrigeration trucks for fell victim to the gossip mill among the literal rescue workers.

Turns out the trucks were for medical storage and there were no bodies.

4 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

 

Thanks. Have y'all been up that way? If there's a need for volunteers up that way that's where I'd prefer to head tomorrow. I was just working under the assumption that 19E was probably still closed. 

I haven't personally but I know lots of people out there doing work clearing roads and trying to get to houses that are still cut off. If you want me to try to see if any of them would like some additional volunteers, I'll reach out in the morning. But I'm about to lose cell phone service for the next couple hours.

32 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

How far is 19E open? When I was in Spruce Pine last Friday it was shut down at Spruce Pine.

The only parts a 19e that I'm aware of that are fully closed is a stretch between elk Park and banner elk and then where it crosses The North toe at powder Mill Creek road

Apparently 88 was only closed briefly, just happened to be during the time I tried to get out there. Gonna head back out again

Been trying to get out to the Sutherland area. Where Hoskins Fork meets the North Fork. I spent a large portion of my childhood in a run down farm house with no refrigerator but a spring fed hold house and one wood burning stove on Oscar Rd. There's people I care about a lot that I haven't heard from yet out there. Couldn't make it through hwy 88 to get there.

18 minutes ago, Panthers Fan 69 said:

Up here today. I can attest to this Twitter post. If you have a rough supplies, they authorities will escort you.  Only 20 minutes outside of Boone, Vilas is a war zone.   @LinvilleGorgewhat are you seeing up here today?

I was in Vilas earlier today. Woof

Both of my employees that I posted about losing their homes earlier in the thread were able to get FEMA temporary housing assistance and have been put up in a hotel for free for 30 days minimum that was immediately granted no questions asked. While their additional FEMA compensation is assessed.

Did the thread get temporarily hidden or something?

9 minutes ago, OHYO said:

Poga doesn’t doesn’t exist anymore is the word. 2 Blackhawks are covering that area and old Beech side with supplies. I just realized you’re referring to Ray Hicks with Jack tales, you have mountain credibility, thumbs up!

Damn, that's what i was afraid of but also expecting to hear unfortunately

4 minutes ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

Sir this wasn't a take. No disrespect if you enjoy living in isolation. Just not something I could do personally. Not judging anyone.

Man unless you choose not to, no matter how far out you go you can get access to Internet and all the towns, even small ones, have modern conveniences. It's not like deliverance out there except for very few areas

Just now, Jon Snow said:

I wasn't in on the phone call that relayed to location but I'm trying to find out.

Cool thanks

2 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

Sorry, it was Avery County. I've been up all night and got the emails confused. I'm still getting details about other Counties we need to visit. My team is covering 6 counties and had to get other groups help us with the 8 remaining. I do not have many specific details to release just yet.

The Avery/Watauga county like bisects the area I'm talking about so still could be

5 minutes ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

Something I will never understand why do people want to live in isolated places in the mountains of all places. I get some people love nature, but you're basically cut off from the real world.

 

I would be paranoid with nothing around me. 

Lol nonsense take.

Just now, OHYO said:

Old or new Beech?

Old Beech. Like Jack Tales Beech. Up above elk River and whatnot. You can access the area from either 321 going towards Tennessee at trash can falls, coming down from the town of Beech MTN or off a road at the Red Barn off 194 outside of banner elk. There's hundreds of houses down in there and I haven't heard from anyone

The pulled a body out from below the 421 bridge at Bamboo Rd bridge yesterday afternoon. I could smell it going to and from my shop thati showed pictures of earlier. Was just hoping it was an animal. It wasn't

47 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

I'm receiving emails all morning directing us to ares I'm Wataga County ASAP. We we warned it will be hard for my folks to witness. I'm guessing they've found more bodies there. My team is going to need stress counseling when thos is over. 

Any idea what part? Im still trying to contact a decent amount of people that I haven't heard from. I have a bunch of people that I care about on the back side of Beech MTN up above trash can falls that nobody can get to yet that I'm aware of. In the flood in 2004 I couldn't get within 5 miles of their house and my buddy rode a 4-wheeler through the woods to get to me.

1 hour ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

Never thought in a million years this would happen to Western NC of all places.

 

Still kind of shocked at the flooding considering it was a quick moving storm it didn't stall for 3 days.

 

Prayers to everyone.

To add to what Linville said; the storm did stall of a sort. The precursor frontal boundary stalled and was fed moisture from the storm it rained hard starting Wednesday night and didn't stop and then the storm swept through on Friday

21 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

The people I know in WNC are largely outside of Boone and Asheville and .gov is nowhere to be seen, per usual.

So are mine and I've seen them in places. There's national guard in the backside of snake MTN on the zionville area near my buddies horse ranch and it's in the middle of fuging no where