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Do you have any specific suggestions for one? Been meaning to get one before this happened, now I know I absolutely need some form of radio on hand. I don't get cell service at all where I live.
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I gave someone this radio as a gift and they say it works well.
https://www.amazon.com/Midland-WR120B-WR120EZ-Certified-Trilingual/dp/B00176T9OY/
I have these Sony radio's and they work well for AM/FM
If you want to get in to more radio stuff check out the Ham radio thread.
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Traveling up the Swannanoa
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The main one I'm using is one I bought used on eBay a long time ago, Reecom R-1630. Uses regular AA batteries as a backup and I have it configured to only alert for my specific county. It's also possible to disable the siren for specific alert types such as AMBER alerts (no, I don't need to be woken up at 5:30am because of a custody dispute in Memphis 7 hours away). This one even came with a sticker on the side that says "Provided by: Montgomery County Public Safety Department SE Terrorism Task Force Funds 2006". Good to know where someone's tax dollars went I guess.
We also have a Midland WR120B upstairs that seems to work well and have a similar feature set.
In my opinion, the most important thing in in a weather radio is that it will reliably go off when it receives an alert, that you can configure it to only alert for your area (it must support "Specific Area Message Encoding" / SAME), and that you can disable the siren for specific alert types such as AMBER alerts. That way you'll know to take it seriously when it goes off.
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So now that all the videos are coming out...this is definitely a Katrina level disaster. Its just not located in one easily filmed metro area like New Orleans was. I imagine even the missing reports are underselling it. Probably because all the people that could have reported someone missing were swept away too.
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We will not forget this, DC. Bet your asses on that.
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Here's another one where TEMA does not want neighbors to help other residents:
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Heading down tomorrow from Ohio and yeah, this scuttlebutt about confiscations or "authorities" forcing people out or turning supplies away from what I can tell is nonsense, my county already sent one official load down, nobody got turned away. They are asking people to let them know what they're bringing, who's coming and where they're going as a courtesy before you start driving to keep shit from getting too out of hand with random groups appearing. Will report back if I run into any obstacles but I doubt it. Church groups around here have been collecting donations privately since the first reports started coming in and they've sent several loads down to NC, SC and GA with absolutely no problems. Even if there were, people in the Heartland pull together and get shit done. I'm only half-assed Appalachian but I know if this were happening in Ohio there'd be aid coming up from the south. God bless them and I wish I could do more.
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The only thing I've heard remotely close to this is they aren't taking donations because they already have way too much of whatever the individual was donating.
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These people are grifters posting ragebait for clicks. This dumb bitch has no clue what is going on, she isn't there.
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CB radios, too. Lots of people still have those, especially truckers and EMS. Plus you don't need a license or anything.
A Cardboard Box
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I hope these pieces of shit get ALS and die choking on their own vomit. Spreading fear, uncertainty, and anger for personal gain is truly evil.
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I'm not gonna lie, seeing grifters taking advantage of this situation to either bait responses or scam people out of money is making me pretty MATI.
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Are you talking about the woman in the video?
I think the person who posted it to Twitter is not the same person.
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Don't think about it like that. Think about how you are working to prevent stuff like this in the future.
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A sad and horrifying report from the Swannanoa area.
My friends. I’m going to share what I can only describe as a very important, yet tragic… story? But it’s not a story. It’s real. And it’s happening right now. I’m going to ask you to pay attention. It’s going to be long but understand that it’s happening *right now*. It’s real and we, as a nation, need to do something. 1/?
Dan and I have friends that way as well, just heard from one, she’s disabled but okay. Her home is fine. She’s in a better area. We almost bought in Henderson but I didn’t like the flood plain.
Just 4 miles from work in Swannanoa, where April and I live and where Jennifer used to live, there is plenty of need and opportunity to serve. I go climb in my bed each night and cry. I’m thankful beyond words that my home survived. That I survived and that I am safe. That my vehicles are fine. So many people were not as fortunate. Jennifer lost everything, home, car and all personal belongings. We worked for 2 days cutting trees, moving boulders, mud and debris from our road so that people can get off our mountain to either flee the area or find food and water and other supplies they need to survive the days ahead. Entire neighborhoods washed away. Cars are in trees. Houses and businesses washed down the river. Highways and private roads are gone… gone. A man was walking the streets yesterday with 5 little kids and an AR strapped to his back thru Swannanoa. We still hear the sound of sirens and helicopters all day and night. Mule teams have come to ride in areas that cannot be accessed to do well being checks and deliver food and water.
My husband works for NC DHHS state police in Black Mountain. I hear the emergency traffic all day. My son works for Henderson County Sheriff’s office and said they are still pulling bodies from the Swannanoa River and that there has been over 1000 deaths so far in Buncombe County alone. Hospital morgues are full. They have brought in refrigerated trailers to store bodies and transport them to other areas. I had friends in Grovemont community two streets down from me that didn’t survive a mudslide that took their home with them in it. My cousin who was a Fairview Fireman lost his life and his nephews life And almost lost his son as well trying to save their neighbors in a mudslide. Looters are walking thru the rubble trying to find anything valuable and breaking into stores, homes and businesses.
On Saturday I took a couple of neighbors to Swannanoa First Baptist Saturday because they said Red Cross was going to be there giving out food and water. Only to find that they wouldn’t come in stating our roads weren’t safe and left. They didn’t even drop the supplies anywhere. Someone said they would come back later. There were lines of people. The church had some bottled water but not enough.
Another church made peanut butter sandwiches and brought them, again there wasn’t enough. Another person slaughtered one of their cows and the church was grilling it to feed people. They were giving small pieces of meat the size of a sausage patty. I went to the back of the line 3 times because of children getting in the line behind me. I left with nothing because a mother with a small child ran up behind me asking if her little boy could get a sandwich before they were gone. You kind of lose your appetite when you try and process what is going on around you. I have no immediate needs right now and for that I am thankful.
My husband is an officer and yesterday a person called in to ask how they can preserve the body of their mother who had died during the night. EMS can’t get to where they live yet… there are so many stories. While doing search and rescue in the Swannanoa River a rescue worker saw what he thought to be a baby doll floating down toward him, it wasn’t a baby doll, it was an infant. They recovered the body but no clue whose baby it is, assuming because there has been no report, that the parents drown as well. The need is so tremendous here. 2/?
I’m not exaggerating, I’m not even scratching the surface. The reality of this is so overwhelming you cannot process it. The loss is so great. If you feel the need to help or serve in anyway and can get here you won’t have a hard time finding something to do or someone to help.
They are wandering the streets. Crouched in disbelief against buildings weeping. Standing in lines hoping to get what they need. It’s one thing to watch this happen on the news in other places for 5 minutes and think, wow that’s really bad, I hate that happened, and turn off the news. It’s a different thing to find yourself in that reality, you can’t turn it off or walk away from it. It’s hard to sleep at night. We are exhausted mentally and physically, we are emotionally spent but we are alive and well and for that I am beyond grateful.
Yesterday morning I went to work with my husband and there was a semi with a water tank parked in front of ingles in Black Mountain emptying into large storage containers. There were 2 capitol police cars there that was sent up from Raleigh to guard it. You have to bring your own containers and are limited to a gallon per person up to five people, families over 5 are limited to 5 gallons. Some people need containers for water, if they can get there, some cannot get to the supply locations. If you can’t come help then please pray! We encountered 2 ladies from a church with their cars packed yesterday driving around to hand out bread and individual peanut butter packs and water. We have seen a lot of good but we have also seen a lot of greed. One lady at a convenience store that lost power called the owner to let him know what was happening and that she was going to give the ice away because it was melting and people could use it. He told her she would give nothing away. She had to lock it up and let it melt.
We have ingles distribution center located between Swannanoa and Black Mountain, they have police guarding the warehouse. Police are predicting that things could get violent as people get desperate. I pray it doesn’t come to that. Other areas were affected as well, not just us. If you are a believer, I ask you to please pray. If you’re hands on and able to serve, pick a spot and wear your rubber boots!
I’m going to send pictures of Swannanoa and Oteen below the office. If you want more info I am happy to send more as I get it. I don’t know what news is reporting because we can’t get it but I can tell you what the emergency traffic is because my husband and son are officers.
My husband has to escort emergency fuel trucks from place to place because people are trying to stop the trucks with guns to get fuel. The trucks are delivering to the state hospital here in Black Mountain where my husbands office is located and to nursing homes and dialysis centers who need it to run emergency generators. 3/4
This is a real story that was related to me by someone I trust.
I changed all the names but not the town names.
Help them if you can.
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Literally none of this is accurate.
The situation in Swannanoa, while difficult, is improving. The primary issue is that Swannanoa is an unincorporated village, and therefore it is obviously harder to coordinate relief. That being said, Grovemont Park is currently the staging center for supplies in the area, and has a full service kitchen powered by generator and camp fuel and staffed by volunteers. The Grovemont Park site specifically has both dry food and humanitarian MREs supplied by FEMA as well as fresh produce and meat donated by locals and charities. Water is currently being supplied by a military water purification system fed from a local spring. The numbers of deaths is also a lie. While there's likely dozens or even hundreds of people that have tragically lost their lives and have yet to be found, morgues are not full, and they are not bussing around bodies.
Now for an update on roads: the road conditions are rapidly improving, far ahead of schedule. I-40 both eastbound and westbound are open all the way to Asheville. I don't know when the announcement will come, or if it has been made already, but I-40 is more or less passable up until about 20 miles from the Tennessee border. That being said, those last 20 miles are gonna suck. That's where those videos of the river basically eating the interstate come from. I-26 is more or less passable all the way to the border. The power situation should begin rapidly improving this week. Some fellas from OG&E, an Oklahoma power company, basically showed up overnight ready to put together a whole ass transformer (I will never shit talk the Sooners again, God bless you crazy bastards), and I believe they're going to be rebuilding a site somewhere up in the mountains.
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So are the reports that the feds are blocking off the damaged areas and trying to kill everyone trapped there merited or what