With rivers rising to unprecedented levels we have been stranded in our area for 5 days with no way to get more food, water or fuel. All roads are flooded in every direction around us with the nearest town being 16 feet underwater, nearly a hundred people had to be airlifted to safety after the river started rising! This is the building that use to control the dam 😟
It is truly unbelievable the amount of damage this hurricane has caused. Trees are downed everywhere and many of the crushing homes or knocking down powerlines. The wind tore off shingles and roofs and the water annihilated to many homes to count.
I took this video just to give people an idea of how bad the flooding really is because pictures just don't do it justice.
We are now on day 8 of no electricity after hurricane florence unleashed her fury on North Carolina and we are told it could be another 6 days until we get it back!
FEMA flew in some "hot meals" and water for the people stranded in our area, as nice of a gesture as it was the food was way worse then anything we have including ramen and canned foods. It was so terrible looking we didn't even feed it to our dogs! It makes me upset that this is what they are giving to people after a natural disaster, many people lost their homes and now u wanna feed them this shit!?!
(Freeze dried peas and a boiled hotdogs, both cold)
Hopefully the waters will continue to recede and we can get access to more supplies today or tomorrow but in any case we are good to go with food and water. I'm just happy I was as prepared as I was. I am about to run out of fuel for the generator but I don't need that to survive, it just makes life a bit more comfortable throughout all of this.
Anyhow, I still have to drive down the street to get internet access on my phone so I am going to end this article so I can get back home and continue the cleanup of my yard. Thanks everyone for all the good wishes and nice comments, they are appreciated more than you could imagine 😊
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