Each yellow mark is an impassable road that has been labeled so far. Lots of mudslides and roads being completely washed away.
Before and after of a place called Chimney Rock. This was their entire downtown.
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As you can see this is in the mountains and complicates things quite a bit. Western NC has been deemed closed.
Asheville is inaccessible by road, they're all washed out. No electricity, gas, land lines, or even cell service because the floods took out the cell tower and the data center that handles the calls. The rivers reached 24.6ft(7.4 meters). A group of amateur pilots has set up a gofundme to airdrop supplies into the city. The Cajun Navy has dispatched and rescue helicopters are buzzing about.
There is a megathread here but it's very boring and mostly people trying to get in touch with loved ones.
Some boomerbook group seems to be the only people getting any messages out of certain areas and I'm not sure if they're real.
Shout out to @BartholomewRoberts who had this to say about the hurricane yesterday.
https://rdrama.net/h/personal/post/303566/dixiebros-i-dont-feel-so-good/7081036#context
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Oh this is why my firefighter friend was bitching and crying about having to go in on his off-day
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Nooo I don't want to save lives on my day off.
I hope he stays safe out there. It's going to be a lot of hard work.
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He has to drive from Charlotte area all the way over to the fricky areas in his gay little fire engine. I assume the roads are beyond fricky in that frickhuge thing
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just roll the truck into the ditch, blame the roads, go home
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Maybe one of these?
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Things are so bad I don't know how far into the mountains he can get.
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