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Posted: Yesterday 8:41:06 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Sierradyne]
Since the last one got locked due to people being assholes, let's try this again with out people being dick heads.
@Mcgiggles The guy's apartment flooded pretty rapidly. Original thread. Edited to add the link to the original thread. |
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I am unemployed and 66 and waiting on SS but I am in for $ 40. I know it is not much but it might buy a meal or two.
Just need to know where to send. Larry |
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Originally Posted By Rocketman89408: I am unemployed and 66 and waiting on SS but I am in for $ 40. I know it is not much but it might buy a meal or two. Just need to know where to send. Larry View Quote Every little bit helps, covering two meals does a lot to help boost a person's moral. I hope he responds so he can get the help he needs to get back up on his feet. If a person can only offer a prayer that helps too. |
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Prayers out for Mcgiggles and his pupper. Willing to help out any other way possible.
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Carpe diem - Seize the day
Carpe per diem - Seize the expense check |
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Bump.
Send details for where to send funds and let us know what’s needed! Can we get this tacked? |
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In to find out where to send what is needed.
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I’m definitely in and I’m guessing quite a few others will pitch in.
Hopefully he will see this thread. |
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PP FF?
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Always down to help a fellow Pirate 🏴☠️
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Posting for awareness. From solid source on Twitter.
A STATEMENT ON THE FLOODING SITUATION IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA & SURROUNDING AREA: I finally had to log off and get some sleep last night, but I didn't stop thinking about the #Helene damage in western North Carolina (WNC), where I grew up. I have some thoughts on this historic storm this morning. I believe that Helene has created a unique logistics and infrastructure nightmare there which will last weeks and it will take months to recover. Here's why: The Mountains have Turned into "Islands" Western North Carolina, WNC for short, (and also bordering portions of NW SC & eastern TN) is effectively a series of tiny islands at this point, and I don't mean because of the flooding, but from a disaster perspective. After a major hurricane at the coast, relief and utility services can gradually work their way to the coast as roads open, but the barrier islands are cut off for days or weeks. The same will be true for parts of WNC. NCDOT says 400 roads are closed. Every road/bridge that got washed out also took out water, gas and communications lines with it. This will take weeks to fix and will likely come with great human suffering the likes of which the area has never seen. Relief organizations won't be able to get into the areas where help is most needed due to so many roads being washed out. The best bet for the next week will be helicopters and satellite internet, if people have the hardware. Even flying people/supplies into small airports won't be effective because so many roads are closed. Rest of text in spoiler — READ IT: Click To View Spoiler Communications Breakdown: It took 24 hours for me to get back in contact with my Mom in Wilkes County. She lost power Thursday morning when Helene was more than 750 miles away. Reed also was unable to get in contact with his Mom as of last night. Here's why. Cell tower providers are only required federally to have 8 hours of backup. In hurricane-prone near-shore areas, they optionally have 24-72 hours backup in some cases. Diesel or Natural Gas generators can run indefinitely. I bet that Cell towers in WNC don't have that additional backup that they do in coastal areas. Diesel generators, the usual way of powering cell phone towers, cannot be reached by road now, as more than 400 roads are closed and I would guess many many last-mile roads to cell towers are in wooded areas where many trees have fallen or even dirt roads that may have washed out. I would guess the majority of cell phone towers are down now in WNC. At least 50%, maybe 75%. Natural gas generators, if they exist in WNC, may have had their lines cut by road washouts. Fiber lines have been cut. This could extend the communications outage for a week or longer, I would estimate. Maybe due to smaller population, it won't be the worst Cell outage on record but by area, it could be. My mom also had a Land Line, which not many people still do. A tree knocked that line down Friday morning and now she only has her cell phone, but no way to charge it. This is playing out for thousands of residents in WNC. Residents In the Dark: Almost every county in western NC & SC is 60-100% dark, still this morning. Higher winds than people expected, through trees that were full with big leaves and already unstable in wet ground from a wet summer, took down 4.9 million customers concurrently, the most since Hurricane Irma in 2017 3.6m are still without power this morning. Western NC is mountainous and densely vegetated, making repairs tricky on a good day. Crews will not be able to get to many areas because roads have been washed out. Even as roads are repaired, many people have lines down on their property. At my Mom's house in Wilkes County, the damage is reminiscent of Hurricane Hugo in 1989, even though the winds were less than Hugo in that area (likely because of the wet summer). In 1989 during Hugo, we were without power for at least a week, phone for two weeks, and I think it will be that long for many residents once again. Flooding Beyond Extreme: The gauge records broken in WNC are incredible. In some cases the equipment has been washed away but at those gauges that survived, the numbers are staggering and many records have been set. Most major floods we've covered in the last 10-20 years have had a gauge or two overtop their records by a few inches. The French Broad River at Fletcher, south of Asheville, broke its high water mark by 10.2 feet. The Swannanoa River at Biltmore, by more than 6 feet. The News is NOT Getting out: A lot of the media sent their folks to Florida, and they are still there, covering that important story, but leaving this important story on the back burner, and it's a story that's just beginning. News is not getting out now in the way it normally would because so many people are without power or cell service. Entire towns and communities have been destroyed, and they are also isolated from a travel and infrastructure perspective. The death toll is likely to rise, perhaps greatly in WNC. |
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Mcgiggles, If you have a truck and cannot find somewhere to stay.. Id be looking at making the truck into a short term bug out shelter. sleeping pad, blankets, pillow and plenty of water and food of some type. Clean and oil the guns up real good and store them away.
I'm sorry this has happened to you. I'm sorry assholes felt the need to kick you while you are down and got your thread locked. Keep your chin up, this will pass and things will get better. Let the arfcom crew help. |
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Damn, never thought SC/NC and eastern TN could get so fucked!
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I'll keep this thread open and kick him some money when something is set up.
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Tagged for when the fund goes through and is linked.
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every gun makes its own tune
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Sucks what happened in the thread and to mcgiggles. Waiting on fund raising info.
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Last bump for the night. Hope OP is well. Prayers out.
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I drove 3 hours to Hendersonville yesterday. Couldn't get within 20 miles of family I was trying to locate.
Luckily got a text from them finally. They okay and generator. French Broad river is 1/8th mi behind their house and rose 30ft over banks. There was hundreds of people lined up at the few open cash only gas stations. People were already acting crazy after 1 day. |
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[Last Edit: scotchymcdrinkerbean]
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@Mcgiggles
A: I saw you posted about your lever gun and AR having some rust. The are both fixable with some cleaning. I had a few firearms sit in brackish water after Katrina that I still own and shoot--they are not lost causes. B: I lost everything except a few firearms, a great cheese grater, and the 2 kitties I had then in Katrina, when I had 3.5 feet of water in my house for over 2 weeks---drop me a line if you want to talk to someone who went through something similar. C: I know you have a job up there, but if they give you time off and you need to just decompress, we have a back house here in New Orleans you can stay at for a week or so to try and get your mind right. I can't offer yard access for yer pup, as we have inside/outside cats and a dog of our own, but said husky can stay with you so long as he is walked out of the yard on a leash and won't try to kill a little black cat who will possibly try to rub heads with him. D: I am also down for a (small, I must admit,) donation to any fundraiser that gets started. E: Side note, prior to Katrina NOPD had around 10,000 rounds of 147 grain Black Talons sitting at the New Orleans East range for use in SOD's MP-5s. The ammo spent a few weeks under water in brackish water, and the range staff was told to dispose of the ammo. At least half was "destroyed" by being fired out of my wife's (though she was just a friend at the time) UZI. There were no failures to fire. I mean, yeah, I wouldn't have trusted it as defensive ammo, but your rounds should be fine for range use. |
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Originally Posted By Sierradyne: Since the last one got locked due to people being assholes, let's try this again with out people being dick heads. @Mcgiggles The guy's apartment flooded pretty rapidly. Original thread. Edited to add the link to the original thread. View Quote Hell I am in for some bucks if he gets a gofundmething or something. |
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Originally Posted By scotchymcdrinkerbean: @Mcgiggles A: I saw you posted about your lever gun and AR having some rust. The are both fixable with some cleaning. I had a few firearms sit in brackish water after Katrina that I still own and shoot--they are not lost causes. B: I lost everything except a few firearms, a great cheese grater, and the 2 kitties I had then in Katrina, when I had 3.5 feet of water in my house for over 2 weeks---drop me a line if you want to talk to someone who went through something similar. C: I know you have a job up there, but if they give you time off and you need to just decompress, we have a back house here in New Orleans you can stay at for a week or so to try and get your mind right. I can't offer yard access for yer pup, as we have inside/outside cats and a dog of our own, but said husky can stay with you so long as he is walked out of the yard on a leash and won't try to kill a little black cat who will possibly try to rub heads with him. D: I am also down for a (small, I must admit,) donation to any fundraiser that gets started. E: Side note, prior to Katrina NOPD had around 10,000 rounds of 147 grain Black Talons sitting at the New Orleans East range for use in SOD's MP-5s. The ammo spent a few weeks under water in brackish water, and the range staff was told to dispose of the ammo. At least half was "destroyed" by being fired out of my wife's (though she was just a friend at the time) UZI. There were no failures to fire. I mean, yeah, I wouldn't have trusted it as defensive ammo, but your rounds should be fine for range use. View Quote That's Mighty "Right" of you! |
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Morning bump.
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[Last Edit: delemorte]
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People got that locked? That's shitty. Feel bad for the dude. I can't imagine having my entire life washed away.
I'd cut that dude any slack he needed while dealing with that BS ETA. Also in for some cash when a fundraiser is set up. |
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“I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.”
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Some real assholes in that thread. The kind of assholes that need to be fed their teeth.
I'm in for a fundraiser donation. |
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