More than 24 hours passed without any word from Sarah Fivecoat's mom and grandmother, who were waiting out the storm in Asheville, North Carolina.
As images of streets devoured by water, with homes and businesses slipping underneath, flood her feed, Sarah Fivecoat watches from her Kaufman home in agony.
Fivecoat said the women have called Western North Carolina home for about eight years. They’ve never witnessed anything like the catastrophic flooding caused by 29 inches of rain.She said it was too late to go by the time a mandatory evacuation order came. Out of desperation, Fivecoat turned to TikTok, relying on her following to find someone to help check on her family.
With many roads still impassable, the state’s energy provider has warned that it will take days to restore power to the 1.3 million people in the region without it.
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