Pray for the people in Western NC

10/3/2024 9:47pm
AMetts wrote:
Guys its really bad, the news is just now getting in there enough to be able to try to show some of the destruction. The stuff...

Guys its really bad, the news is just now getting in there enough to be able to try to show some of the destruction. The stuff you see on the news in Boone and Asheville is really bad but its the communities on the outskirts of these cities and into the mountains all through western North Carolina into eastern Tennessee. 

They are evacuating people that no longer have shelter using helicopters, but if you still have a house standing they are leaving them and trying to get supplies to them, there was a ton of civilian private helicopters flying people out and supplies in out of their own pockets and with donations before the national guard showed up but even they cant get blackhawks and chinooks into some of these really small landing areas. 

This was the flight radar in the area this morning, these are all civilians helicopters, along with a few images that ive saved from social media and such this week....

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I,ve been all Ovr that area trucking. And  pipeline const.  It’s bad in quite a few states I,ve been in lately.  90,s we worked 7 days a week aprox a month straight in Florida hurricanes . That was crazy ww2 bosses quit but they where pussies anyway. Catrina was bad I was in new orleens it looked like a atom bomb flattened everything.  No Laws mobs of people doing whatever they wanted.  I was in quite a few another 1 stands out the 172 tornados in a day was nuts. Way up in Va. Md. brick buildings gone, Carlisle Pa.  Was still bad.  A couple days b4 this storm hit . I was near the Mexican boarder 55 gal thick garbage barrels flying everywhere hitting the trl 10 ft up, a few hit my Russian bumper.  

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10/4/2024 4:55am
Meister wrote:
It literally hits me in the core to think about these unsuspecting mountain people literally stuck, no medicine, no baby formula, no animal food..Wife and i...

It literally hits me in the core to think about these unsuspecting mountain people literally stuck, no medicine, no baby formula, no animal food..

Wife and i started a donation spot. We have one neighbor with a new dually and 24' box trailer heading south Friday. Any donations i cant fit are going with another local couple buddies and their SEVENTEEN other friends with rigs on Monday morning. Large local butcher shop with a full freezer rig of meat going down with them too.

No they're not going to red cross or fema. Were getting drop points from the cajuns that do an incredible job. Also local contacts who can use their church since the government can't take from them. 

Unfortunately with work i cant go this weekend. Already trying to plan another run next weekend. Leave friday after work, get close, nap, wake up to deliver then be a willing and able body to work on whatever i can for people. I will hike up a few miles if i need to. Work, then hike back down. 

I know theres 59 million ways to donate but if youre looking for someone moto minded, hit me up and ill make sure 110% goes directly to these mountain people in need. Every monetary donation weve gotten ive shared receipts with donators. Each transaction ive gone over and made up the difference with my own cash. My moto cash stash. Might not be riding for a minute because of it, but whatever. 

 

This trailer pic was before the truck load i picked up today and about 7 other people that dropped off after that. 

 

These people need help. Help from people. 

 

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seth505 wrote:

This is the answer, actually doing something that makes a difference to real people who need real help. Nice work man.   

Meister wrote:
Got home from work and went to town sorting again. Its almost 10 and i just checked vital and got a solid donation from a member...

Got home from work and went to town sorting again. Its almost 10 and i just checked vital and got a solid donation from a member here. Heading to the store now to top this 24 footer off to the ceiling with lighter paper products (with his donation and others). Trailer is rated for 11k and a few of us think were over. Putting 12 plys on tomorrow before its heading south. Next 24 footer is being dropped tomorrow to fill for 

Great job man, heard some things from buddies up there working that they need that average people are probably not sure exactly what to get but our community is probably more versed on. 

Chainsaw Files, Bar oil, 2 stroke premix, M80 chainsaw blades, and the small green propane tanks are a huge need as they must be ground freight so delivery isn't as fast as some other items. 

The park service made it to the top of Chimney Rock and put the American flag back up, bit of hope. 

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10/4/2024 7:38am
Zacka 161 wrote:
This is heartbreaking, hopefully the gov send the assistance needed and the rebuild strongly considers the next event, as Tim Waltz said, rebuilding with preparedness such...

This is heartbreaking, hopefully the gov send the assistance needed and the rebuild strongly considers the next event, as Tim Waltz said, rebuilding with preparedness such as putting power lines underground — and using the power of the fed government it make sure levees are equitable (for those wondering wealthy cities upstream build bigger levees which saves them a small amount of flooding while directing more and faster flowing water to poorer communities downstream who don’t have the funds to build such large levees… so it takes the power of the fed gov to ensure the ‘levee wars’ don’t continue to directly impact poorer communities - but maybe that’s that dastardly DEI and the poors deserve it for being poors).


Anyway hopefully the gov doe their job in repairing, rebuilding, preventing AND preparing…

HonTech23 wrote:

Waltz is a fucking idiot 

Zacka 161 wrote:
Could be who knows.  A presidential election is between two sides and comparing VPs based on any metric he’s the better choice and comparing Ps based...

Could be who knows.  A presidential election is between two sides and comparing VPs based on any metric he’s the better choice and comparing Ps based on any metric Kamala is the better choice. 


So whether he is a ‘fucking idiot’ or not is kind of irrelevant, it’s irrelevant.  

Please stay in Australia.

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HonTech23 wrote:

Waltz is a fucking idiot 

Zacka 161 wrote:
Could be who knows.  A presidential election is between two sides and comparing VPs based on any metric he’s the better choice and comparing Ps based...

Could be who knows.  A presidential election is between two sides and comparing VPs based on any metric he’s the better choice and comparing Ps based on any metric Kamala is the better choice. 


So whether he is a ‘fucking idiot’ or not is kind of irrelevant, it’s irrelevant.  

Dave v3.0 wrote:

Please stay in Australia.

CTE a big problem in the moto community.  

A vote for a felon and a Peter Thiel funded yes man who would be given the power to approve or deny election results (even if he runs himself in 2028) and not realizing it is a clear path to a hostile take over is pretty sure sign of cognitive decline… 


it’s either a vote for a dictator sympathizing rambling ‘billionaire’ and his flip flopping billionaire funded election denying bootlicker or a vote for America… 

CTE is a hell of a drug my man. 

Good luck to you 

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10/4/2024 4:54pm

Has anyone heard from Sandusky?  Haven't seen him around here since the Hurricane hit... he's in NC, not sure exactly where tho.  Hope he's alright

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10/4/2024 5:25pm
Zacka 161 wrote:
Could be who knows.  A presidential election is between two sides and comparing VPs based on any metric he’s the better choice and comparing Ps based...

Could be who knows.  A presidential election is between two sides and comparing VPs based on any metric he’s the better choice and comparing Ps based on any metric Kamala is the better choice. 


So whether he is a ‘fucking idiot’ or not is kind of irrelevant, it’s irrelevant.  

Dave v3.0 wrote:

Please stay in Australia.

Zacka 161 wrote:
CTE a big problem in the moto community.  A vote for a felon and a Peter Thiel funded yes man who would be given the power...

CTE a big problem in the moto community.  

A vote for a felon and a Peter Thiel funded yes man who would be given the power to approve or deny election results (even if he runs himself in 2028) and not realizing it is a clear path to a hostile take over is pretty sure sign of cognitive decline… 


it’s either a vote for a dictator sympathizing rambling ‘billionaire’ and his flip flopping billionaire funded election denying bootlicker or a vote for America… 

CTE is a hell of a drug my man. 

Good luck to you 

Please stop … you are not helping anything with these low class comments about something that quite frankly isn’t any of your concern. 

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10/4/2024 6:27pm
Zacka 161 wrote:
Could be who knows.  A presidential election is between two sides and comparing VPs based on any metric he’s the better choice and comparing Ps based...

Could be who knows.  A presidential election is between two sides and comparing VPs based on any metric he’s the better choice and comparing Ps based on any metric Kamala is the better choice. 


So whether he is a ‘fucking idiot’ or not is kind of irrelevant, it’s irrelevant.  

Dave v3.0 wrote:

Please stay in Australia.

Zacka 161 wrote:
CTE a big problem in the moto community.  A vote for a felon and a Peter Thiel funded yes man who would be given the power...

CTE a big problem in the moto community.  

A vote for a felon and a Peter Thiel funded yes man who would be given the power to approve or deny election results (even if he runs himself in 2028) and not realizing it is a clear path to a hostile take over is pretty sure sign of cognitive decline… 


it’s either a vote for a dictator sympathizing rambling ‘billionaire’ and his flip flopping billionaire funded election denying bootlicker or a vote for America… 

CTE is a hell of a drug my man. 

Good luck to you 

You’re absolutely contributing nothing to this post. So please stop it. SMH 🤦🏻‍♂️ 

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10/4/2024 7:01pm
SLAPAHO wrote:

Has anyone heard from Sandusky?  Haven't seen him around here since the Hurricane hit... he's in NC, not sure exactly where tho.  Hope he's alright

Not 100% sure but, I think he's from the eastern part of the state. Yes sir, hopefully he's OK. 

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10/5/2024 4:36am
SLAPAHO wrote:

Has anyone heard from Sandusky?  Haven't seen him around here since the Hurricane hit... he's in NC, not sure exactly where tho.  Hope he's alright

Not 100% sure but, I think he's from the eastern part of the state. Yes sir, hopefully he's OK. 

hope you are well Randy

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10/5/2024 6:03am
Zacka 161 wrote:
CTE a big problem in the moto community.  A vote for a felon and a Peter Thiel funded yes man who would be given the power...

CTE a big problem in the moto community.  

A vote for a felon and a Peter Thiel funded yes man who would be given the power to approve or deny election results (even if he runs himself in 2028) and not realizing it is a clear path to a hostile take over is pretty sure sign of cognitive decline… 


it’s either a vote for a dictator sympathizing rambling ‘billionaire’ and his flip flopping billionaire funded election denying bootlicker or a vote for America… 

CTE is a hell of a drug my man. 

Good luck to you 

You must be speaking from firsthand experience on the complications of CTE.

It appears to have turned you into the biggest jerk on vital.

When Australia had floods and fire I can't recall anyone here offering anything but heartfelt thoughts and sympathies for those suffering terrible tragedies.

They did not offer a lot of unsolicited advice on what they should have done to avoid the disasters.

We also did not turn to discussing Australian politics that do not affect us.

congratulations on being the most tone-deaf, insensitive, and condescending asshole here. 

 

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10/5/2024 9:56am
SLAPAHO wrote:

Has anyone heard from Sandusky?  Haven't seen him around here since the Hurricane hit... he's in NC, not sure exactly where tho.  Hope he's alright

I'm all good man. I'm on the east coast hundreds of miles away. Thanks for asking.

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10/5/2024 1:35pm

My daughter has friends in Black Mountain and they couldn’t reach anyone for 5 days because of no cell service. The town is demolished. Chimney Rock is gone. Lake Lure is gone. Two lanes of I-40 are gone.
I live 65 miles South of Asheville, in Greenville, South Carolina. Our power went out Friday morning at 6:30 and just got it back this afternoon. Eight and a half days without power. Lots of trees down. Houses crushed by falling trees. It pales in comparison to Western North Carolina. The scope of what happened there is heartbreaking. 
The thing about natural disasters is that no one gets out unscathed. Socio-economic class doesn’t get you out. Every one has to have water and power.

A little help from a lot of people makes a difference. 
 

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Our first load left this morning and landed in Asheville at 5:45. We chose "Beloved Asheville" as the organization to donate to because theyre people helping people with no govt hindrance. This trailer load had almost 11 pallets worth packed in like a serious game of tetris! My neighbor in the rmc diesel shirt is the owner of the rig and the driver. These two unloaded most of the trailer as the onsite volunteers left around 5 because they were physically exhausted from the day of unloading. Theyre saying these goods are going out nearly as fast as they are coming in.  They did tell us they're set with bottled water and diapers but still need food! I will personally be making a trip in the near future.

 

Spent the day with another group taking in, sorting, and loading their trailers that are shipping out Monday!

 

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10/5/2024 6:50pm
SLAPAHO wrote:

Has anyone heard from Sandusky?  Haven't seen him around here since the Hurricane hit... he's in NC, not sure exactly where tho.  Hope he's alright

Not 100% sure but, I think he's from the eastern part of the state. Yes sir, hopefully he's OK. 

JustMX wrote:

hope you are well Randy

Just some downed trees. Hope you're doing well, Joe.

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10/5/2024 7:30pm

People trying to politicize a natural disaster is exactly what I expected before I even opened this thread. 

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DeuceSW20 wrote:
Definitely pretty bad out there. My mother in law lives in Lansing, north of Asheville. She had been without cell service for about 4 days and...

Definitely pretty bad out there. My mother in law lives in Lansing, north of Asheville. She had been without cell service for about 4 days and has been running on the generator they have as of last night. Can't get out of her road due to a 15ft hole in the road. Folks out there got badly rocked sadly.

I’m in her county, Ashe (30min north of Boone), in the Creston/Zionville area.

Supplies and money are great, but it does seem that lots of hubs are getting overwhelmed with supplies and are turning them away, FOR THE TIME BEING.  These supplies need to be distributed and it’s not an easy nor quick task as a many of the roads are down to 1 lane in some areas, if they are even still accessible.  And these are the main roads I’m speaking of.  The smaller backwoods roads got rocked even harder. 

Power is still out in our area, I’m off grid camper living so not a change for myself.  But cell coverage is back up which is huge. 

That being said, thanks for all the support.  This is going to be a marathon, not a sprint.  So two + weeks from now please keep supporting us!  It’s not going to be a super quick recovery.  Could use 50 men with saws and heavy equipment to clean up the 75-125 down trees at my dads property alone.  This event changed the landscape of the land everywhere.

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V, pm me details. Location, needs, whatever.

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Zacka 161 wrote:
Could be who knows.  A presidential election is between two sides and comparing VPs based on any metric he’s the better choice and comparing Ps based...

Could be who knows.  A presidential election is between two sides and comparing VPs based on any metric he’s the better choice and comparing Ps based on any metric Kamala is the better choice. 


So whether he is a ‘fucking idiot’ or not is kind of irrelevant, it’s irrelevant.  

No, you're the fucking idiot if you think kameltoe and palzy are better choices.

 

Are you fucking ignorant or just stupid?

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10/5/2024 11:37pm
Meister wrote:
Our first load left this morning and landed in Asheville at 5:45. We chose "Beloved Asheville" as the organization to donate to because theyre people helping...

Our first load left this morning and landed in Asheville at 5:45. We chose "Beloved Asheville" as the organization to donate to because theyre people helping people with no govt hindrance. This trailer load had almost 11 pallets worth packed in like a serious game of tetris! My neighbor in the rmc diesel shirt is the owner of the rig and the driver. These two unloaded most of the trailer as the onsite volunteers left around 5 because they were physically exhausted from the day of unloading. Theyre saying these goods are going out nearly as fast as they are coming in.  They did tell us they're set with bottled water and diapers but still need food! I will personally be making a trip in the near future.

 

Spent the day with another group taking in, sorting, and loading their trailers that are shipping out Monday!

 

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Awesome job, Meister! You must be quite a guy. 👍 I'm sure they appreciate your hard work and efforts. 

Thank-you 

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Thanks for the kind words. I definitely dont do it for the kind words or pats on the back. I was reluctant to post much on my regular forums i visit but im glad i did because of the donations/contributions. I see people that literally do this stuff or post this stuff for clout, but dont put in actual work, and i get pissed. I wish i had a way without even having my name associated. I can honestly say what we have done is genuinely going to help people tho. I just feel for people and disasters like these make my insides hurt thinking about the suffering. Alota people here just think im the whiner about Lorettas and know i ride a yz450. 

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Meister wrote:

V, pm me details. Location, needs, whatever.

I can’t send PM on this forum.  My email is:

volcomcbr AT yahoo DOT com


Thanks for inquiring and for what you are doing.  I understand people like you not needing the pat on the back, I’m the same way, but we really do appreciate the efforts put our way.

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DeuceSW20 wrote:
Definitely pretty bad out there. My mother in law lives in Lansing, north of Asheville. She had been without cell service for about 4 days and...

Definitely pretty bad out there. My mother in law lives in Lansing, north of Asheville. She had been without cell service for about 4 days and has been running on the generator they have as of last night. Can't get out of her road due to a 15ft hole in the road. Folks out there got badly rocked sadly.

volcomrr wrote:
I’m in her county, Ashe (30min north of Boone), in the Creston/Zionville area.Supplies and money are great, but it does seem that lots of hubs are...

I’m in her county, Ashe (30min north of Boone), in the Creston/Zionville area.

Supplies and money are great, but it does seem that lots of hubs are getting overwhelmed with supplies and are turning them away, FOR THE TIME BEING.  These supplies need to be distributed and it’s not an easy nor quick task as a many of the roads are down to 1 lane in some areas, if they are even still accessible.  And these are the main roads I’m speaking of.  The smaller backwoods roads got rocked even harder. 

Power is still out in our area, I’m off grid camper living so not a change for myself.  But cell coverage is back up which is huge. 

That being said, thanks for all the support.  This is going to be a marathon, not a sprint.  So two + weeks from now please keep supporting us!  It’s not going to be a super quick recovery.  Could use 50 men with saws and heavy equipment to clean up the 75-125 down trees at my dads property alone.  This event changed the landscape of the land everywhere.

Yeah, they offered her food and supplies but she had plenty already. She had already stored supplies in case shit hit the fan so she denied it to save for others instead. Definitely agree that the biggest thing is the actual damage done. She barely got power back the other day and can now shower in her own home since her well pump is up and running now. Clearing out the roads and repairing them/making them somewhat usable is the one of biggest things.

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