Desperate residents isolated by washed-out roads and the lack of power and cellular service in western North Carolina lined up Monday for fresh water and a…
A crisis is unfolding in the mountains of western North Carolina, where water, food and other supplies are being airlifted into places cut off by mudslides and washed-out roads. A third of those were reported in North Carolina, most of them in hard-hit Buncombe County, which includes the mountain city of Asheville.
Others waited in a line for more than a block at Mountain Valley Water, a water seller, to fill up milk jugs and whatever other containers they could find.Derek Farmer, who brought three gallon-sized apple juice containers, said he had been prepared for the storm but now was nervous after three days without water. “I just didn’t know how bad it was going to be,” Farmer said.
Video taken by Charlotte City Councilman Tariq Bokhari from the Lake Lure/Chimney Rock area of North Carolina shows what Bokhari called"overwhelming" levels of destruction. Cooper implored area residents to avoid travel for their own safety and to keep the roads clear for emergency vehicles. More than 50 search teams spread throughout the region in search of stranded people.Several dozen people gathered on high ground in Asheville on Monday, where they found one of the city's hottest commodities — a cell signal. Some texted friends and loved ones a simple message: ”I’m OK."The storm unleashed the worst flooding in a century in North Carolina.
Volunteers were showing up too. Mike Toberer decided to bring a dozen of his mules to deliver food, water and diapers to the hard-to-reach mountainous areas. Asheville and many surrounding mountain towns were built in valleys, leaving them especially vulnerable to devastating rain and flooding. Plus, the ground already was saturated before Helene arrived, said Christiaan Patterson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
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