Communication a massive struggle in flooded North Carolina towns
Days after Helene swept through, cellphone and internet service is spotty to nonexistent. Desperate posts on social media seek information about loved ones.
Hasnain says:
Climate change is here. This is 4 hours away from any coast, 2k meters above sea level, and it still got leveled.
Also took out the world’s only source for quartz that’s used to make the crucibles for making silicon chips as I understand it.
““We have complete neighborhoods that are no longer there,” he said. “We’re just trying now to go to where these neighborhoods were and just try to do some sort of search-and-rescue in some of the houses that are still there.”
�Days after the rain subsided in the Southern Appalachians, numerous flood alerts were still in effect because of continued runoff and swollen waterways. Multiple flash flood emergencies, the most dire flood alert, were in effect Sunday for numerous lakes along the Catawba River in western North Carolina because of both “catastrophic and historic inflows” and dam releases that could lead to “life threatening” flooding downstream.”