DEVASTATING!
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I normally don’t do a video like this this is a little different but I had to say something because there’s a situation going on in North Carolina that I want to bring to your attention and it’s pretty scary I live in Southern Virginia right across the border from North Carolina and I had a neighbor of mine go down after the floods to help and he had a company that had helicopters and they sent him home so I’m like what isn’t FMA down there he goes no not not where I am so then I had another neighbor Bill San Pierre he has a woodworking shop we did a video before and bill came up to me and he said you know what’s happening in North Carolina I said no I brought bill on to share what’s going on because this is a situation I want to bring to everyone’s attention Bill thanks for coming on yeah you bet so what’s going on in North Carolina well obviously they got hit with a major disaster um something that I’ve never seen in my lifetime I went down uh about a week and a half after the storm I put out a little thing on my Facebook page to see if I could do something I have an escavator I have a business that I run here in Floyd but I knew I could slip away for a few days and go down and do a little something when I got there I couldn’t believe what I saw I couldn’t believe the devastation I couldn’t believe the homes were that were demolished by the flood the roads um the stores everything was just in shambled at that time the Army National Guard was coming in bringing food and and materials and generators out to people that they couldn’t get to and they were flying it in there was a lot of people that you could get to but yet they had no homes and their homes were washed away and everything and everyone that I talked to they didn’t know what to do these people don’t like to ask for much they don’t want anything but when your home is completely destroyed and you have no flood insurance why would you have flood insurance when your house is on the side of a mountain or FEMA was down there everybody that I talked to did not see FEMA some people that did get to go they had to go to the FEMA office and they did but they were only offered you know very little money that wouldn’t even do cleanup well what they’re telling me and this isn’t things that I’m saying this is what these people are telling me if they were to build they have to carry flood insurance or FEMA wants their money back well some of these families were getting quotes on flood insurance that was 3,000 the it’s probably going to cost them at least 30,000 so one of the families did receive 330,000 isn’t going to build you a new home it’s not even going to clean up the home that you have destroyed which is now a half a mile Downstream and then the homes that were half a mile Upstream are now on your property so I’m not seeing a whole lot of help from the government nobody has seen the governor nobody has seen a president nobody has seen anybody and it’s almost like a third world country I’ve been working in Ash County in and around Boon and Jefferson North Carolina and I’m not even in the hardest hit areas you know these these areas were pretty well devastated but you get down near Asheville and you know some of these towns that were basically almost wiped off the map and when the media comes in they show the town but they don’t go out on the side roads and they don’t go up into the valleys where these homes are just completely gone and it’s just a little overwhelming it’s hard on all the people down there working um you’re talking to these people you’re you’re you know trying to help them they have nothing I’ve just never seen anything like this in our country I’ve never seen anything like this yeah it’s the strangest thing because I I’ve been watching other videos people are posting and apparently some people are getting acid burns on their body from chemicals in the rivers and water like there’s a lot of weird going on down there right now the septic systems that a few of the homes I was working on you could smell the septic because it was just overwhelmed septic tanks were broken um and are now all Downstream and just washing up in people’s Wells shallow Wells so some people are having their their Wells tested so that they can use them but if you think about it yeah why wouldn’t all that stuff be contaminated of course it’s contaminated there’s like thousands of people that are not being helped right now probably more in even close to where you are is that true I would drive down on some of these roads and count you know 20 30 homes just destroyed maybe their porches were just ripped off but the water got up into their homes they’ve had to go in and completely gut the whole house out and that’s just the area that I’m in this was a big area this hurricane hit between Northwest uh North Carolina Kentucky Tennessee Southern Virginia some people may have got help maybe they did but everyone that I’ve talked to and have been working with are getting nothing I was basically raising money on Mike venmo when I first got there because we needed dumpsters which were overpriced by $1,000 we needed gravel we needed culs and these people didn’t have the money even for that they couldn’t do it so thankfully we’ve had so many people behind us and behind me in our County here in Floyd County Virginia giving me Culver giving me whatever I need to go down there and help these people out because right it’s not our job to do this you know we shouldn’t have to worry about this but I’m starting to second guess the insurance on my home here in Floyd Virginia on top of a Mountaintop because whatever our system is it’s not wow there are people helping down there it’s kind of a makeshift Cruise here and there right it’s not necessarily coordinated it’s not coordinated and at first it was just a free-for-all it was just you know where can I go