How to help devastated Western NC (09-30-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_02]: I want to reach out now and talk with Elise Lentz sharped in she is

[00:00:32] [SPEAKER_02]: The volunteer in media director at hearts with hands. It's a

[00:00:36] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a disaster relief

[00:00:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Operation that's based in Swan Inoa, North Carolina right outside of Asheville

[00:00:44] [SPEAKER_02]: And I want to check in to see how they're doing Elise welcome. How are you?

[00:00:53] [SPEAKER_02]: I can I know cell phone is it's touch-and-go

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_02]: So I totally get it

[00:01:01] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we're here. We've got even in distribution here at our warehouse in Swan Inoa getting out

[00:01:08] [SPEAKER_05]: Hiking kids and food boxes and water and some hot dogs that we've been growing in our kitchen trailer all day

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_05]: It's about 10 o'clock this morning and going until six o'clock this evening as long as the supplies are lasting and

[00:01:22] [SPEAKER_05]: community members have walked here drove here they're helping us pack more boxes to

[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_05]: Supply that we're helping support local

[00:01:31] [SPEAKER_05]: emergency officials and in your efforts and trying to get them

[00:01:35] [SPEAKER_05]: We all said that they can keep going and do what they're doing

[00:01:37] [SPEAKER_05]: So, you know, this is something we do all the time all over but never in our backyard like this

[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_05]: So it's just been a little overwhelming and surreal honestly. I bet yeah

[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_02]: The end because one of the things I was wondering because you guys are headquartered in Swan Inoa, right?

[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I was actually here during

[00:01:57] [SPEAKER_05]: Thursday evening I was here with emergency management to open an emergency shelter here needed at our warehouse

[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_05]: We had cleared everything out. We were prepared and ready

[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_05]: And I received a call Friday morning about 4 30 in the morning telling us to evacuate fast

[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_05]: Because they were very concerned with the way the water was already coming in and rushing that we could get

[00:02:19] [SPEAKER_05]: potentially flooded here at our warehouse in

[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_05]: Swan Inoa so thankfully we did not receive any flooding

[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_05]: No being as we are all safe here and able to see as we got a tree way cut through your past morning

[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_05]: Most in college we were able to start giving out supplies Saturday morning

[00:02:36] [SPEAKER_02]: How is Swan Inoa?

[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Doing because I've heard that it's you know various reports. So I and like what what is your assessment of it?

[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_05]: So Friday

[00:02:49] [SPEAKER_05]: Storm had passed so I guess it was around 12 o'clock 1 o'clock in the afternoon

[00:02:54] [SPEAKER_05]: I

[00:02:54] [SPEAKER_05]: Immediately you know got my head in the truck and we started driving trying to get here to see, you know how things were and

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_05]: There was water just everywhere like there's two different directions all for me

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Uh-oh. I think we lost you Elise

[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, yes, I you're back. Okay

[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_05]: Okay, so there's a direction all for it access our warehouse

[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_05]: So

[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_03]: We're both under water on

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_03]: And we couldn't get through and then

[00:03:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I think we're

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_02]: I think we're losing the cell service now.

[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_02]: You're breaking up really badly, but I want to direct people to your organization.

[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_02]: It's called Hearts with Hands and I've worked with you guys in the past when I used to work

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_02]: up in Asheville and you mentioned the kitchen trailer.

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_02]: We lost her, yeah.

[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_02]: If you want to try to get her back, see if she's in a better cell.

[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_02]: The Hearts with Hands, she mentioned that kitchen trailer and I remember when they got this

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_02]: thing and the whole point was that they take this trailer to the disaster zones and they

[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_02]: travel all over the place.

[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_02]: They got a team of volunteers and they're constantly packing up food boxes, they're packing up kits

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_02]: and stuff and then they mobilize during natural or man-made but usually natural disasters.

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_02]: They hit the road and they bring this trailer with them and they make meals for the first

[00:04:50] [SPEAKER_02]: responders, people that are, you know, the folks that are out there that are responding

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_02]: to the disaster that need to be taken care of themselves.

[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_02]: All right, so we got her back.

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Elise, can you hear me okay now?

[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, can you hear me again?

[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, oh, that's much better, much better.

[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_02]: All right, so you were saying that you were on your way to the warehouse.

[00:05:12] [SPEAKER_02]: What was that on Friday you said?

[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_05]: That was on Friday and I don't know if you've seen like the footage about like

[00:05:17] [SPEAKER_05]: the house and the stuff.

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_05]: I think that guy washed away there by the BP gas station.

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_05]: So that's actually our exit.

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_05]: So I turned right to get to my warehouse from that point and that was to my left.

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_05]: So I actually witnessed that on Friday personally as well.

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_05]: So it was just, I finally got past some trees.

[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_05]: We cut through the college parking lot Saturday morning when we tried again.

[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_05]: We had to abandon our truck at the college parking lot.

[00:05:46] [SPEAKER_05]: At that point, we couldn't get through to the warehouse and we just came back for it.

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_05]: And I just lost my emotions whenever I saw our buildings so standing because I just

[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_05]: knew we had supplies already ready to go for this disaster.

[00:06:00] [SPEAKER_05]: And all I could see was it being gone and not being able to help our community.

[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_05]: And we just, there's such a blessing from God.

[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_05]: And we immediately started doing distribution as soon as we got here.

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_05]: People saw our vehicles pulling in and coming down from the mountain neighbors

[00:06:16] [SPEAKER_05]: and everybody trying to just get some water and some help.

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_05]: And then they're not only getting help, they're trying to help us get more stuff

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_05]: ready to take it into other neighborhoods and stuff.

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_05]: So this community is really rallying around each other.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_05]: It's just really overwhelming and I'm just so grateful to be able to have a part

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_05]: in helping in this way.

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, you guys do great work there.

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_02]: I always recommend people donate money to you and to help out

[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_02]: and donate. And so the website is heartswithhands.org.

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_02]: And so as far as I know, you guys are, you all are, you all are running your

[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_02]: normal disaster operation response, but it's all local.

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_05]: We are. We have done distribution in

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_05]: Vowdosta, Georgia as well.

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_05]: We did meals and we had Greg with their station before the disaster.

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_05]: So he actually is on his way back here now and he will be helping here

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_05]: with this effort, but he's already done distribution of supplies in meals

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_05]: in Vowdosta, Georgia for the last two days.

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't have numbers on that, but I know cars are lined up for miles

[00:07:28] [SPEAKER_05]: at one point to get food and water and things there.

[00:07:31] [SPEAKER_05]: So we've already done two days of distribution there,

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_05]: but it was important for him to get back here to help us

[00:07:36] [SPEAKER_05]: love on our own neighborhood with this disaster.

[00:07:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. What do you need?

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we need we need support.

[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_05]: We have ways to get tractor trailers of bulk donations in now.

[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_05]: They've got our road clear.

[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_05]: So if people are willing to give that's the best way right now for us

[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_05]: to be able to buy those bulk donations at a discounted rate and get them here.

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_05]: That's truly the easiest and best way that people can help right now.

[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_05]: A lot of people have been contacting us about our Amazon wish list

[00:08:06] [SPEAKER_05]: and things like that.

[00:08:08] [SPEAKER_05]: But we're not sure really what Amazon will be able to come back here.

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_05]: We'll have that easy access of getting donations that way again.

[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_05]: So right now the best thing to do is give online.

[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_02]: So give the monetary donation so y'all can make the purchases

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_02]: of the tractor trailers filled with supplies.

[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_05]: Right, right. Yeah.

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_05]: We can we can we're doing fine food for like our suppliers,

[00:08:34] [SPEAKER_05]: uncooked food coming in on our refrigerated trailers, things like that.

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_05]: We've got our big mobile kitchen set up here in our parking lot,

[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_05]: cooking meals, getting those out into the community.

[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_05]: So all that money that's given will go straight to making those purchases.

[00:08:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Fantastic. The website is heartswithhands.org.

[00:08:54] [SPEAKER_02]: That's heartswithhands.org.

[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Elise, is there anything else that you want to

[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_02]: that you want to add that you think is important or interesting

[00:09:03] [SPEAKER_02]: for people to know before I let you go?

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, just think everyone through their support and their prayers.

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_05]: We feel that it is not going to be a quick and easy

[00:09:14] [SPEAKER_05]: bounce back though for our mountain towns.

[00:09:16] [SPEAKER_05]: Everyone is really feeling the heaviness of what's happened here.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_05]: And we still don't know if we if all of our loved ones are safe

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_05]: and people are truly concerned.

[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_05]: So just continue praying for us,

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_05]: thinking about us, supporting us.

[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_05]: And we're going to be here for the long call to our community

[00:09:37] [SPEAKER_05]: and back to where it can be. So thank you guys.

[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for the work that you're doing.

[00:09:42] [SPEAKER_02]: God bless. Stay safe.

[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, thank you so much.

[00:09:45] [SPEAKER_02]: All right, that's Elise Lentz-Sharpton.

[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_02]: She is volunteer and media director with Hearts With Hands.

[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_02]: That's heartswithhands.org.

[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_02]: So if you are looking for a place to donate money to help get supplies,

[00:09:59] [SPEAKER_02]: this is and it's a good way to do it.

[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a great organization.

[00:10:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Like I said, I've worked with them for

[00:10:04] [SPEAKER_02]: for several years while I was up in the mountains

[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_02]: and even afterwards when I came down here and there were disasters

[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_02]: that they responded to, highly recommended.

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[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_02]: I have I don't even know where to begin

[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_02]: with all of the stuff I said this morning when I was on with Bo and Beth

[00:11:27] [SPEAKER_02]: on Good Morning BT.

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_02]: The word is overwhelming.

[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_02]: For me.

[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Because there's it's such a large area

[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_02]: and there are so many people that have been affected and devastated.

[00:11:46] [SPEAKER_02]: There are so many angles with power, water, communications,

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_02]: you know, debris cleanup, search and rescue.

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_02]: There are just so many different things and so many different people.

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_02]: And then you're trying to get in contact with all of the people that you

[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_02]: you know and love that are in the area

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_02]: and communications being down.

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_02]: And it was.

[00:12:14] [SPEAKER_02]: So I don't remember.

[00:12:16] [SPEAKER_02]: I think it was Rick Rice from the Asheville Police Department

[00:12:21] [SPEAKER_02]: that said there was a major a breakage in the like a major fiber line.

[00:12:28] [SPEAKER_02]: And maybe that's what knocked out my Internet.

[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm in Western Mechler County.

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_02]: But I don't know our service, our Internet went down on Friday.

[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_02]: I thought that's weird like the storm has already passed.

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Why is that?

[00:12:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Why is the Internet down now?

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_02]: And so I was without Internet for for the whole weekend.

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_02]: And it came back last night.

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's when I was finally able to start

[00:12:55] [SPEAKER_02]: combing through the different social media pages and news pages

[00:13:01] [SPEAKER_02]: and trying to get information and trying to see what is the extent of the damage?

[00:13:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Because as you start reading it, it's like, you know, initially the first reports

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_02]: that are coming out, it's like, oh, it's bad, it's bad.

[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_02]: And then you start seeing and I couldn't see some of the initial photos

[00:13:16] [SPEAKER_02]: and videos because they wouldn't load, you know, in the social media accounts.

[00:13:21] [SPEAKER_02]: And then you start seeing it and it's like, I know these areas.

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_02]: One of them, you know, Biltmore Village, I lived there for a couple years.

[00:13:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Kristin, I lived there.

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_02]: We were up above Biltmore Village.

[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_02]: So we would we would look down on where.

[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_02]: So we had when Christie

[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_02]: when she left her job in Charlotte and moved up to Asheville

[00:13:45] [SPEAKER_02]: after I had been up there.

[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_02]: So I've been working in Asheville for about six years at that point.

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_02]: But I had rented an apartment up there and I would come back on weekends.

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_02]: We sold our house in Charlotte.

[00:13:56] [SPEAKER_02]: She was living in an apartment still working here, and we would go back

[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_02]: and forth on weekends and

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_02]: and she at one point had lived in Asheville.

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_02]: So she knew people in Asheville as well.

[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_02]: And so that's what we did for a while.

[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_02]: And then she left her job and got a job in Asheville, moved up.

[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's when we moved into this apartment building

[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_02]: in Biltmore Village.

[00:14:20] [SPEAKER_02]: And if you've ever been to if you've been there in the last,

[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_02]: I should say the last probably five years, if you've seen the building,

[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_02]: you know exactly what I'm talking about.

[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_02]: It's this orange and yellow, God awful paint scheme

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_02]: of an apartment building that overlooks Biltmore Village.

[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_02]: And so we moved into an apartment there and and then, of course,

[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_02]: COVID hit.

[00:14:43] [SPEAKER_02]: So that's where I was when I got let go from the radio station up there,

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_02]: because of course, you know, I was there for eight years

[00:14:54] [SPEAKER_02]: thinking at any moment, I'm going to get let go.

[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to get let go and finally I'm like, OK,

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_02]: I guess I'm not going to get let go anytime soon.

[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_02]: And then Kristy moves up and then within four months I'm let go.

[00:15:04] [SPEAKER_02]: So that was where I started the podcast.

[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_02]: And the audience that put food on my table and let me pay my rent

[00:15:18] [SPEAKER_02]: came from that podcast.

[00:15:20] [SPEAKER_02]: That audience was the Western North Carolina audience.

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_02]: And that is still about half of my podcast numbers,

[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_02]: about half come from Charlotte and about half are still

[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_02]: in Western North Carolina.

[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_02]: And I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for them.

[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_02]: And so I know this, I recognize this.

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_02]: And so that's why it's like I see this this view.

[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Some there was a one of one of the listeners of the show.

[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_02]: She posted a video and she lives in Oakley,

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_02]: which is a neighborhood that's right outside.

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_02]: It's right up against Biltmore Village.

[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_02]: And sort of if you go up the hill away from Biltmore Village

[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_02]: towards 240 Interstate 240, which if you've gone up there

[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_02]: and you've come in from I-40 and you get on 240

[00:16:18] [SPEAKER_02]: and you it's got the median with the trees right in the

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_02]: middle of the median there that through the cut they call it,

[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_02]: which is like the big rock walls that you go through

[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_02]: because they cut the mountain.

[00:16:27] [SPEAKER_02]: They cut right through the mountain.

[00:16:28] [SPEAKER_02]: So they call it the cut and you go right through there.

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_02]: And anyway, so the that Oakley neighborhood is right at the

[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_02]: right outside of Biltmore Village.

[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_02]: And so she posted a video of Biltmore Village from up this road.

[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_02]: And that was my view basically when we were living at the apartment

[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_02]: and it's all underwater.

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's like I know what I'm looking at, but I it's like

[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_02]: it I can't understand what like the brain isn't processing

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_02]: what it is that I'm seeing.

[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, there was the Davis Furniture Company

[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_02]: and this is I mean, it's a huge warehouse and has a white roof.

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_02]: And that was like we would you look out over this white roof

[00:17:16] [SPEAKER_02]: for the better part of two years or so.

[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_02]: And I knew what that roof looked like.

[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_02]: That was our view.

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_02]: You could see this huge white roof on this big, you know,

[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_02]: metal manufacturing warehouse kind of look in building.

[00:17:34] [SPEAKER_02]: And half of that roof was covered with water.

[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_02]: And this thing is I mean, it's like I don't know the size

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_02]: of two football fields and it's full of water.

[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_02]: The that Biltmore Village area had flooded.

[00:17:51] [SPEAKER_02]: It floods pretty regularly when there was like torrential

[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_02]: rains and stuff like that there because it's a low lying area.

[00:17:57] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's right on the the Swannanoa River.

[00:18:01] [SPEAKER_02]: And you know, the downtown streets would flood in this and that.

[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_02]: But the worst flood of 1916, you know, they there are buildings

[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_02]: there that have the you know, here is the watermark from,

[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_02]: you know, this area's worst flood over 100 years ago.

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_02]: And this flood was higher than that.

[00:18:25] [SPEAKER_02]: That's how bad this is the worst flood they have ever seen on record.

[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_02]: And back then they had had two hurricanes back to back.

[00:18:36] [SPEAKER_02]: And this was one. Now it did rain, you know, there was that

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[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_02]: a lot of the ground saturated, which was part of the problem also.

[00:18:47] [SPEAKER_02]: But there. You know, there isn't any way to prepare for a thousand year storm.

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_02]: You can only do so much.

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[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_02]: I am monitoring my Facebook group, my Facebook pages,

[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_02]: my Twitter account, my emails.

[00:20:17] [SPEAKER_02]: So I know I'm getting and if you have sent me stuff or posted stuff,

[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_02]: I I don't have time to respond.

[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_02]: I try to respond to everything usually.

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_02]: But I have not had time to respond to everybody's posts.

[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just gathering as much stuff as I can and putting it all together

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_02]: so to broadcast as much information as I can

[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_02]: without spreading misinformation or

[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_02]: stuff that has not been confirmed. OK.

[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_02]: And so that's one of my recommendations for everybody is you are now

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_02]: citizen journalists in this day and age with social media.

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_02]: You are a citizen journalist if you are posting stuff onto your social media

[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_02]: when you are amplifying stuff like there was one of a fire truck that was

[00:21:11] [SPEAKER_02]: being where firemen were being lifted out of some raging flood waters by a bridge.

[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Didn't happen here.

[00:21:17] [SPEAKER_02]: All right, that video is from someplace else and you can tell it's from someplace

[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_02]: else because all the trucks that are on the bridge in the video,

[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_02]: they're all from like some there's a foreign language on all of the trucks.

[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Right, like they're 18 wheelers with some foreign shipping company or something

[00:21:34] [SPEAKER_02]: and all the firemen are wearing the European fire garb, the turnout gear.

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_02]: So you have a responsibility.

[00:21:42] [SPEAKER_02]: I have a responsibility, but I've been doing this a long time.

[00:21:47] [SPEAKER_02]: So I've made mistakes too.

[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_02]: We all make mistakes and I'm going to make mistakes.

[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_02]: But think before you post stuff.

[00:21:57] [SPEAKER_02]: I understand people want to get information out and you want to get it out quickly.

[00:22:02] [SPEAKER_02]: And I recognize the value of that.

[00:22:04] [SPEAKER_02]: I really do.

[00:22:06] [SPEAKER_02]: But you also are not helping by posting stuff that is unnecessarily panic mongering.

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_02]: I have the same criticism for the quote mainstream media when they do stuff

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_02]: in order to hype fear and to inflame, right?

[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_02]: I have the same criticism there.

[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_02]: And if we are all now citizen journalists, sharing stories,

[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_02]: sharing videos and images and all the stuff, right?

[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_02]: It's pretty it's pretty interesting to watch how a lot of the people

[00:22:38] [SPEAKER_02]: who are so critical of the legacy media outlets and their desire to hype

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_02]: stories engage in the very same kinds of behavior.

[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_02]: OK, I understand why it happens like, oh, I had this thing.

[00:22:53] [SPEAKER_02]: I have this information.

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to push this out.

[00:22:55] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to let everybody know I'm going to be the first.

[00:22:57] [SPEAKER_02]: That's what motivates a lot of reporters and newsrooms.

[00:23:01] [SPEAKER_02]: You have to you have to be able to take a step back for a second and say, OK,

[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_02]: let me look at this information.

[00:23:10] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, how can I verify that this is accurate?

[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_02]: What harm would I cause if I post this?

[00:23:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[00:23:17] [SPEAKER_02]: You have to have some level of responsibility as a citizen journalist,

[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_02]: which you are when you are posting stuff.

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_02]: You may not like it, but that's that's where we are.

[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_02]: This is the modern day.

[00:23:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Got a message from Russ.

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_02]: He says, I usually unplug from all news and social media on the weekends,

[00:23:36] [SPEAKER_02]: but I started getting texts from friends in Western North Carolina.

[00:23:39] [SPEAKER_02]: I spent a lot of time Saturday and Sunday checking on others and watching footage.

[00:23:44] [SPEAKER_02]: One of the most sobering comments I saw was a guy whose home and vehicles

[00:23:49] [SPEAKER_02]: were swept away, who said, no matter how you work, save and prepare

[00:23:54] [SPEAKER_02]: in the end, the only thing you really own is what is on your person at any given moment.

[00:24:03] [SPEAKER_02]: I've seen people behave very badly on social media, pointing fingers,

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_02]: making snarky comments.

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_02]: One of the biggest disappointments I saw came from a retired North Carolina

[00:24:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Supreme Court judge.

[00:24:20] [SPEAKER_02]: This is not the time.

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_02]: To try to score a political point that nobody even gives a flip about,

[00:24:31] [SPEAKER_02]: no one cares about your stupid hot take.

[00:24:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Judge, no one cares.

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_02]: You may care and you'd be it.

[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I shouldn't say that.

[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure you've got some barking seals that will clap for you

[00:24:47] [SPEAKER_02]: for politicizing the devastation that we're watching.

[00:24:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Right?

[00:24:52] [SPEAKER_02]: People haven't even found their loved ones and you're trying to find a way

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_02]: to make it about the North Carolina legislature funding school vouchers.

[00:25:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Shame on you.

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Not to mention, you're an idiot because there's five billion dollars

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_02]: stashed away in a rainy day fund.

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Moron.

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Sorry.

[00:25:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Russ goes on to say that guy from the Asheville Police Department, Rick Rice.

[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_02]: He does have some great pipes.

[00:25:23] [SPEAKER_02]: I couldn't help but think of Bill Rosinski the whole time he was talking.

[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_02]: No.

[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_02]: So Rick used to work at the radio station cluster.

[00:25:30] [SPEAKER_02]: He was on a different station while I was up there in Asheville.

[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_02]: And so that's why I made the joke that if he ever wanted to get into radio,

[00:25:40] [SPEAKER_02]: he could have a career there.

[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_02]: He had a career in radio now he's and then he's out now.

[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_02]: But you never know it can draw you back in radio does that?

[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Let me see here.

[00:25:53] [SPEAKER_02]: So there is from what I understand, there's going to be a media briefing

[00:25:57] [SPEAKER_02]: by the North Carolina Department of Public Safety Emergency Management at two o'clock.

[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_02]: We will I intend to carry that live as it's occurring.

[00:26:09] [SPEAKER_02]: I think they'll be doing a live stream of it on Facebook.

[00:26:13] [SPEAKER_02]: So I anticipate doing that.

[00:26:15] [SPEAKER_02]: People have been asking how to help.

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_02]: And so I've been compiling a list of the organizations that I have heard of

[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_02]: that I feel comfortable relaying to you.

[00:26:28] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to I'm not going to relay stuff about individual people that are doing,

[00:26:34] [SPEAKER_02]: you know, oh, I've got, you know, a carload of supplies.

[00:26:38] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going up like because I can't verify that and I don't want people to donate money or product

[00:26:44] [SPEAKER_02]: to a scammer.

[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, you may have like if you're making a run up the mountain

[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_02]: and you want to bring some supplies or whatever, I understand that.

[00:26:54] [SPEAKER_02]: I applaud your effort, but I can't promote that because I don't know you,

[00:26:57] [SPEAKER_02]: you know, you're not a nonprofit, you don't have any record.

[00:27:01] [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm not going to be the conduit

[00:27:05] [SPEAKER_02]: to scam people if you're not anything but a scammer.

[00:27:08] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't want any part of that.

[00:27:10] [SPEAKER_02]: So that's why so these are organizations and people that I feel confident

[00:27:17] [SPEAKER_02]: in checking into that I can relay to you.

[00:27:21] [SPEAKER_02]: So obviously Samaritan's Purse, they're at a boon.

[00:27:26] [SPEAKER_02]: They've been deployed.

[00:27:27] [SPEAKER_02]: They're all over the place.

[00:27:28] [SPEAKER_02]: They are reputable.

[00:27:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Red Cross, obviously.

[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_02]: The United Way has, I believe they're partnering with the Red Cross.

[00:27:37] [SPEAKER_02]: So if you like the United Way, you want to donate money through them.

[00:27:40] [SPEAKER_02]: They have a North Carolina Helene Recovery Fund.

[00:27:45] [SPEAKER_02]: I mentioned Hearts with Hands.

[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_02]: We did the interview with a representative of that organization.

[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_02]: I can personally tell you that that's a good organization to support.

[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_02]: The North Carolina Department of Public Safety also has a link at ncdps.gov.

[00:28:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Bunkham County officials, which is where Asheville is located.

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_02]: They say anybody who wants to donate to their efforts,

[00:28:10] [SPEAKER_02]: they can send an email to helenedonations at bunkhamcounty.org.

[00:28:16] [SPEAKER_02]: You can also volunteer Helene volunteers at bunkhamcounty.org.

[00:28:25] [SPEAKER_02]: So those are just send you just send an email.

[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_02]: There's an organization called JAARS.

[00:28:38] [SPEAKER_02]: They're accepting strategic supplies for the hurricane stricken areas.

[00:28:45] [SPEAKER_02]: From 9 a.m. until 4 p.m., the aircraft have limited capacity.

[00:28:50] [SPEAKER_02]: But if you are interested in helping to load up their choppers,

[00:28:55] [SPEAKER_02]: because a lot of this stuff is getting air dropped in,

[00:28:57] [SPEAKER_02]: because the roads are washed out. They're impassable.

[00:29:02] [SPEAKER_02]: You can go to their website, jarrs.org, slash give.

[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_02]: That's J-A-R-S dot org, slash give.

[00:29:11] [SPEAKER_02]: GoFundMe has set up a central hub of various GoFundMe accounts.

[00:29:18] [SPEAKER_02]: So they put them all kind of in one place.

[00:29:21] [SPEAKER_02]: So you can look for that at the GoFundMe website.

[00:29:25] [SPEAKER_02]: There's also an organization I'd not heard of before,

[00:29:28] [SPEAKER_02]: but I looked into called Mountain Mule Packer Ranch.

[00:29:33] [SPEAKER_02]: They are literally packing in relief supplies on mule trains.

[00:29:41] [SPEAKER_02]: And this is what they do.

[00:29:43] [SPEAKER_02]: They train for these types of events, usually like in war-torn areas or whatever.

[00:29:48] [SPEAKER_02]: But they were planning to head to Weaverville.

[00:29:51] [SPEAKER_02]: And so you can reach out to them.

[00:29:53] [SPEAKER_02]: They've got a Facebook page, but you can also reach out to them.

[00:29:55] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to give you a phone number.

[00:29:57] [SPEAKER_02]: It is 910-885-1402.

[00:30:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Again, 910-885-1402.

[00:30:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Let me see here.

[00:30:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Biltmore Church.

[00:30:13] [SPEAKER_02]: They're in Arden.

[00:30:17] [SPEAKER_02]: They've reached out there in their area,

[00:30:21] [SPEAKER_02]: and they've been distributing baby formula and water.

[00:30:25] [SPEAKER_02]: That's the biggest need.

[00:30:27] [SPEAKER_02]: They're distributing at their church.

[00:30:29] [SPEAKER_02]: You can help them out by going to their website,

[00:30:32] [SPEAKER_02]: BiltmoreChurch.com.

[00:30:34] [SPEAKER_02]: That's BiltmoreChurch.com.

[00:30:36] [SPEAKER_02]: There is also a hurricane cleanup hotline.

[00:30:39] [SPEAKER_02]: If you need help cleaning up the damage,

[00:30:42] [SPEAKER_02]: that number is 844.

[00:30:46] [SPEAKER_02]: 965-1386.

[00:30:48] [SPEAKER_02]: And their website is crisiscleanup.org.

[00:30:52] [SPEAKER_02]: That's crisis-crisiscleanup.org.

[00:30:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Also, the North Carolina Department of Agriculture

[00:30:58] [SPEAKER_02]: has activated a hotline for farmers.

[00:31:02] [SPEAKER_02]: And you can go to the website ncagr.gov.

[00:31:07] [SPEAKER_02]: And they've got an emergency program directory there,

[00:31:11] [SPEAKER_02]: disaster information so you can access the disaster

[00:31:14] [SPEAKER_02]: web page there.

[00:31:15] [SPEAKER_02]: You can also talk to a live operator at 866-645-9403.

[00:31:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Again, that's 866-645-9403.

[00:31:27] [SPEAKER_02]: And then also, there is an organization

[00:31:31] [SPEAKER_02]: for a children's charity in Avery County.

[00:31:35] [SPEAKER_02]: That's up in the Boone area.

[00:31:39] [SPEAKER_02]: And so this is for local kids in poverty.

[00:31:42] [SPEAKER_02]: That's called ANSKIDS, A-N-N-E-S, kids, anskids.com.

[00:31:48] [SPEAKER_02]: So those are all agencies and entities that I feel confident

[00:31:53] [SPEAKER_02]: passing along to you.

[00:31:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Obviously also the Salvation Army,

[00:31:59] [SPEAKER_02]: mountainprojects.org.

[00:32:02] [SPEAKER_02]: And there was another one that I saw here.

[00:32:08] [SPEAKER_02]: The, oh, WNC Regional Livestock Center.

[00:32:10] [SPEAKER_02]: They're based in Canton and they help farmers and animals

[00:32:14] [SPEAKER_02]: that were affected by the flooding as well.

[00:32:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Total Flight Solutions, solutions at totalflight.com.

[00:32:23] [SPEAKER_02]: You can email them, totalflight.com is their website.

[00:32:26] [SPEAKER_02]: They do rotary wing.

[00:32:27] [SPEAKER_02]: They're delivering supplies and flight assistance as well.

[00:32:31] [SPEAKER_02]: For more information on these and others, you can go to wbt.com.

[00:32:35] [SPEAKER_02]: We've got a directory up there as well.

[00:32:38] [SPEAKER_02]: So when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's

[00:32:41] [SPEAKER_02]: and before he died, my mom and my dad and all of us really

[00:32:44] [SPEAKER_02]: helped take care of them as he got progressively worse.

[00:32:47] [SPEAKER_02]: 40 years ago there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers and family.

[00:32:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Things are different today because of the work of so many people,

[00:32:55] [SPEAKER_02]: including the Alzheimer's Association of Western North Carolina.

[00:32:59] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a great organization with awesome people.

[00:33:02] [SPEAKER_02]: They've got huge hearts.

[00:33:03] [SPEAKER_02]: I've been a supporter for like 25 years.

[00:33:05] [SPEAKER_02]: This cause means a lot to me.

[00:33:06] [SPEAKER_02]: I participate in the annual walk to Endalsheimers

[00:33:10] [SPEAKER_02]: and I am leading a Charlotte team this year.

[00:33:13] [SPEAKER_02]: It's called Pete's Pack.

[00:33:14] [SPEAKER_02]: You can sign up and join the team and walk with me.

[00:33:16] [SPEAKER_02]: It's on October 19th at Truist Field in Uptown.

[00:33:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Sign up at ALZ.org slash walk and then just look for my team,

[00:33:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Pete's Pack.

[00:33:25] [SPEAKER_02]: And there's also a link in the podcast description here.

[00:33:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Also, I'm going to be emceeing the Gastonia walk on October 5th,

[00:33:31] [SPEAKER_02]: so make a team and join us or make a donation to help me hit my goal.

[00:33:35] [SPEAKER_02]: I would really appreciate it.

[00:33:36] [SPEAKER_02]: There are a bunch of other walks around the Carolinas

[00:33:39] [SPEAKER_02]: and you can go to ALZ.org for all of the dates and locations.

[00:33:44] [SPEAKER_02]: We are closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's

[00:33:48] [SPEAKER_02]: and if you can help us get there, we would really appreciate it.

[00:33:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Will you come walk with me for a different future?

[00:33:53] [SPEAKER_02]: For families?

[00:33:54] [SPEAKER_02]: For more time?

[00:33:55] [SPEAKER_02]: For treatments?

[00:33:57] [SPEAKER_02]: This is why I walk.

[00:33:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Former President Donald Trump is actually in Valdosta, Georgia.

[00:34:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Speaking now, we'll go ahead and join it in progress.

[00:34:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Incredible organization.

[00:34:07] [SPEAKER_00]: They've done such a good job.

[00:34:08] [SPEAKER_00]: We've done this before, but we have a lot of truckloads of different items

[00:34:12] [SPEAKER_00]: from oil to water to all sorts of equipment that's going to help them.

[00:34:18] [SPEAKER_00]: But we're here today to stand in complete solidarity with the people of Georgia

[00:34:22] [SPEAKER_00]: and with all of those suffering in the terrible aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

[00:34:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Hurricane Helene turned out to be a big one,

[00:34:30] [SPEAKER_00]: like just about the biggest that anyone's seen.

[00:34:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I spoke with all of the relief people, all of the people that do this

[00:34:36] [SPEAKER_00]: for a living and do this at least to help.

[00:34:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And they said they've never seen one this bad.

[00:34:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Valdosta has been ravaged.

[00:34:44] [SPEAKER_00]: The town is very badly hurting.

[00:34:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And many thousands are without power.

[00:34:50] [SPEAKER_00]: They're running low on food and fuel.

[00:34:52] [SPEAKER_00]: We brought a lot of it down with us.

[00:34:54] [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be distributed now or soon.

[00:34:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Throughout Georgia as well as North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida,

[00:35:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Virginia, Alabama and Tennessee.

[00:35:03] [SPEAKER_00]: That's our big one.

[00:35:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And the devastation wrought by this storm is incredible.

[00:35:09] [SPEAKER_00]: It's so extensive.

[00:35:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody thought this would be happening,

[00:35:13] [SPEAKER_00]: especially now it's so late in the season for the hurricanes.

[00:35:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Homes, hospitals, highways and cars have been plunged under water.

[00:35:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Entire neighborhoods have been turned into lakes.

[00:35:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody's seen anything like it.

[00:35:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And to every family that's been displaced here in Georgia and North Carolina,

[00:35:29] [SPEAKER_00]: which has really been hit, we're going there also and

[00:35:33] [SPEAKER_00]: they don't have communication.

[00:35:35] [SPEAKER_00]: They don't have anything right now that they're,

[00:35:37] [SPEAKER_00]: we're trying to, I just spoke to Elon.

[00:35:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm getting him.

[00:35:40] [SPEAKER_00]: We want to get Starlink hooked up

[00:35:44] [SPEAKER_00]: because they have no communication whatsoever.

[00:35:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And Elon will always come through.

[00:35:49] [SPEAKER_00]: We know that.

[00:35:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And so we're working on that, getting them hooked up.

[00:35:52] [SPEAKER_00]: They asked me whether or not that would be possible.

[00:35:55] [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to try and get the Starlink in there as soon as possible

[00:35:57] [SPEAKER_00]: because they have no communication.

[00:35:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And throughout the region our hearts are with you

[00:36:02] [SPEAKER_00]: and we are going to be with you as long as you need it.

[00:36:06] [SPEAKER_00]: It's called an hour of need.

[00:36:08] [SPEAKER_00]: You're in our prayers and we pray to God

[00:36:11] [SPEAKER_00]: and throughout this long weeks,

[00:36:13] [SPEAKER_00]: the long weeks that lay ahead,

[00:36:14] [SPEAKER_00]: you're going to have a lot of work.

[00:36:16] [SPEAKER_00]: But the end result is it's going to be good.

[00:36:19] [SPEAKER_00]: We just wish so many people weren't so badly hurt

[00:36:23] [SPEAKER_00]: and in many cases, sadly, no longer with us.

[00:36:28] [SPEAKER_00]: We love you.

[00:36:29] [SPEAKER_00]: We love everyone, everyone.

[00:36:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean to be honest, we love everyone.

[00:36:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And we'll be back and we'll be back again soon.

[00:36:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And we'll continue to help until you're bigger.

[00:36:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I say bigger, better, stronger than ever before.

[00:36:45] [SPEAKER_00]: But again, you can't ever discount the fact

[00:36:48] [SPEAKER_00]: that people are lost.

[00:36:49] [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people have been lost in this terrible storm,

[00:36:53] [SPEAKER_00]: this terrible hurricane.

[00:36:56] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a storm that's also taken the lives of,

[00:36:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I guess they have a count of 91,

[00:37:01] [SPEAKER_00]: but that count changes on an hourly basis

[00:37:03] [SPEAKER_00]: and it goes only in one direction unfortunately up.

[00:37:06] [SPEAKER_00]: But at least 91 people already.

[00:37:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And to the families and loved ones of those who have perished,

[00:37:11] [SPEAKER_00]: we mourn alongside of you

[00:37:13] [SPEAKER_00]: and we grieve every single life so tragically lost.

[00:37:17] [SPEAKER_02]: All right, that's former President Donald Trump.

[00:37:20] [SPEAKER_02]: He is in Georgia.

[00:37:21] [SPEAKER_02]: He just said there that he was going to be making his way

[00:37:23] [SPEAKER_02]: to North Carolina as well.

[00:37:25] [SPEAKER_02]: We will keep you posted.

[00:37:26] [SPEAKER_02]: All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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