People are just scrambling’ – North Carolina reels from devastating Mayor Patrick Fitzsimmons was in the center of a disaster zone on Monday.
Weaverville, North Carolina, his town, was without power and without electricity. He told the BBC that the town’s water plant had flooded, there was only one grocery store open, utility poles had fallen, and people had been without clean drinking water for four days.
Utility poles had collapsed, the town’s water plant had flooded, there was only one grocery store open, and residents had been without clean drinking water for four days, he told the BBC.
According to Mr. Fitzsimmons, the county has a website where people can make inquiries about people who go missing. So far, officials have received 11,000 requests.
11,000 requests have been received by officials thus far.As a category 4 hurricane on Thursday, it made landfall in Florida before tearing through Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee, bringing death, destruction, and power outages with it.
The real extent of the damage is becoming more apparent in the days that have passed as residents begin to return home to assess the damage.
As residents start going back home to evaluate the damage, the true extent of the damage is becoming more evident in the days that have passed.
Madison Shaw’s mother was one of those individuals.
“I love you, be safe,” were her final words to me. “I will see you later,” the Anderson, South Carolina, resident said to CBS News. And I declared my love for you. I will see you again later.
“It is beyond words,” Ms. Shaw said to CBS News. “My mother was my closest friend.”
According to a White House spokesperson, two million people do not have electricity as of yet. “History-making” was how President Joe Biden described the storm.
Some of the most dire reports are coming from North Carolina, where the state’s governor Roy Cooper said that communities had been “wiped off the map” and that dozens of rescue teams had been deployed.
