Helene latest recovery efforts: WNC updates one week after the storm that impacted so many lives
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- It has now been a week since Hurricane Helene ripped through Western North Carolina with torrential rain and hurricane-force winds, causing fatalities, power outages and a path of destruction.
These are the latest updates on the recovery efforts for Oct. 4, a week after the storm hit on Sept. 26-27.
AdventHealth Hendersonville said in an Oct. 4 news release that it is offering emergency and inpatient care, including ICU, behavioral health, lab and imaging services. Elective surgeries have been postponed to prioritize urgent care needs.
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Happy to see how these people are working together in order to help each other. Nuff love respect and blessings 😊😊
Great job!! TY so much!😊
I'm near the Hickory airport and private Choppers have been flying over my home every 15 minutes for days. The help IS coming. This disaster is just SO big😢 NOTE - Bring supplies to the Crawdad Stadium NOT to the airport!
"What's taking so long?" How can someone look at the amount of devastation and ask what's taking so long? Whole towns were washed away. The landscape has been completely, forever changed. Did they think that roads would be cleared and power turned back on the next day? I wish News would be doing something to Help the situation, like "here is what this community needs most and here is how you reach that location now to deliver" or "here is a list of gas operating gas stations in your area" or maybe they could speak about all the aid the Governor announced was on the way to help give people hope. Anything but that whiney "What's taking so long...."
Agree.Meda uses that to pump up emotion when most people know quite well REBUILDING infrastructure will take months.But ya know I bet they will end up with far stronger infrastructure and more efficient systems.Praying daily for the victims of Hellene!
They're reading from an AI script.
@@justaguy2365 They did the same before AI!
Asheville will be forever changed. The real estate moguls are already circling. I hope this doesn't become a Maui situation.
100% agree!
My area needs help! Power and water still out and the smell of fires burning in the air as of 5 am this morning.
What town do you live?
What is taking so long? Omg I don’t see how, with so much damage everywhere, how long it will be until electricity will be restored. The damage is devastating through out the country
"Sinclair Media is matching the first $50k".Disgraceful when they own 294 media outlets with annual revenue of $7 billion.Far far smaller companies gave 5 x that.
God look over the victims of Helene.We are all praying for you!
There are small homesteading channels on youtube who have done nearly $200K ... these big companies could do more.
""King Osirus"" ->Great Observation and Reporting.
Very important coverage. Good job!
That’s the problem get off your damn ass get your hands dirty and clean it. It’s all we have are supervisors taking notes and giving speeches.
They are working around the clock, in the background, coordinating with local, state, federal agencies to get critical information out to it's citizens. They are the information hub for buncombe county. Their homes and families were also heavily impacted, grieving but show up every day, taking time away from their family and their organizing to make public info available.
Show some respect for the middleman, which they are, getting hit from both sides. And watch the briefings 10 and 4. Then you will see what they are up against. They are working their asses off.
@@intothemystic3374 really? You need to get off your ass and go out and take a look and see what’s going on.
It’s the local people getting together that getting things done. If it weren’t for them, It would be years before the Power company or anyone else would come in. Seriously, I’ve driven by several areas, see more people sitting in trucks than out there working. For two hours, seven or eight trucks set at Highway 11 and Joe Cassie Road. I don’t know how many supervisors have to drive up and down and take notes to see the devastation. They’re wasting our money.
Love thy neighbor. Always be humble and kind. Its God's way. The trees in the debris should be recycled and reused for new homes. God has donated these trees.
Amen. And send the Chinese ships back with their wood. Buy American from your neighbors.
My parents were without power for 3.5 weeks after hurricane gustav. When the destruction is this bad, this is to be expected. Some locations after Katrina took 18 months in New orleans. Obviously those areas that took the longest didn't have anyone return to live in them initially.
This region is not accustomed to disasters of Hurricane flooding magnitude.
@@oldschoolel of course which is why I'm giving context of how long it can be expected for restoration.
Sad, but true 😿
Time to stop sending tens of billions of our tax money overseas and spend it here for a change.
For reals 😡😾🤬
This kind of comment helps none of us right now. Do better!! How about sending a hopeful or positive message. $725 million was committed even before Helene hit land along with numerous other resources.
@@Turnermama Maybe people can keep the problem of where our American dollars are spent in mind and address it in more detail after the emergency is over ... but now is absolutely the time to bring it up.
@@lauriivey7801agree
“What’s taking so long?” Really! Maybe because these are human beings and not Superhuman!🇺🇸💙🙏🏽
Is FEMA working WITH the input of local charities who know the situation best?
I wonder how Moses came down from the top of Mt. Ararat with no infrastructure whatsoever!
Sad,,, prays for the community
Yay, go Roy Cooper! Help is here. We love this Governor!
You're joking right?
Illegal immigrants get a whole hotel dedicated to them and thousands of dollars in support each month but these people get $750
maga lies and bullshit
@@timothymurphy6910 midwit
🤬😾🤬😾
You are clearly ignorant of how things work during a disaster. That $750 is immediate cash because ATM's are not working or gone. People will give a list of needs to FEMA and get more assistance they need. In addition, home values will be noted, and there will be assistance to repair or rebuild their home. They will also have access to temporary housing/trailers. I know because my family benefited from it during a major flood. Posts like yours aren't helping anyone and make people feel like nobody cares, and that is just not true. Just stop and do better!!
@@Turnermama It is NOT cash ... it is electronic, and it is done through a website which many cannot currently access ... and many are being turned down because they are not low income, even though they are currently in need.
You don’t know come up next Why you need God on side and Know God
Our prayers are with them. By the way, a nose ring on a grown woman is not an attractive thing.
That's your opinion! Keep it to yourself.
@@justaguy2365 Why? It's the truth not an opinion.
@@justaguy2365 The only GROWN ADULT women I have seen with a nose ring are tribes in the middle east, people of Africa who live in the jungles and are naked and the Aborigines who live in the wilderness, who are also naked.
@@justaguy2365 it's a fact actually
Typical Colonial thing to
say 🤣😹🤣😹
Watch out for all trump sites asking for donations!
or Kamalas
Why don’t you ask yourself what you can do to help instead of coming on here and bitching with political bs. And yes, I’d say the same thing if you’d mentioned Kamala instead
@@craig5222 you believed in a false prophet, deal with it, trump never helped anyone but himself. eat poop and enjoy.
They'll have to since FEMA shifted all their money to assisting the millions and millions of "immigrants". Why don't you go help them?
He’s already done more than the border czar