AI6YR BenHam radio operator in Mitchell County near Bakerville - asking if anyone can make some outbound phone calls for people in the shelter. So sounds like they're able to get out now. K4CF Dan Hopson from Bakerville is manning the radio, first contact out of Bakerville I have heard. #MitchellCounty #Bakerville #NC #NCSTRONG #NCwx
Bakerville, NC. Lots of flooding, but they had very early warning from the NWS to clear out, so that might have saved folks (TBD, they were still cut off from most comms). #Bakerville #NCwx #Helene #NCSTRONG
Spruce Pines cut off to Marion due to road failure
You can get to TN from Bakerville side
Only one air drop in Spruce Pine/medical. N2EMD is trying to bridge supply gap.
"Communications so bad, one shelter doesn't know that there's another shelter" via ham radio
Food/Water/Shelter is at Mitchell High School
Another shelter at First Baptist Church near Spruce Pines near intersection of 19 and 226
(from N2EMD)
#Boone #Bakerville #NCwx #NCSTRONG