AI6YR Ben(transcribing information from the emergency repeater net in NC) Starlink site at the Doubletree in Asheville on Heywood. Another at shelter. SSID is SORTARSTARLINK. Ferguson shelter HALLSTARLINK Wifi Passwords is NCSTRONG. #Asheville #NCwx #helene #NCSTRONG
Someone asking about Burnsville vertinary hospital; it is standing, but not sure if it is open. #Asheville #NCwx #helene #NCSTRONG
K4SWL (Ham operator) is bicycle mobile (using bicycle post disaster to get around disaster where vehicles can't go!) Pisgah Brewing Company on Hwy 70 is giving out clean water in Swannanoa. Checking on Swannanoa animals hospital. K4SWL. #NCwx #Swannanoa #NCSTRONG #helene #BikeTooter
WR8RW SC ARES lends support.
Another station, KM4FLG in Black Mountain, 146.520 will be for initial contains in the area for Black Mountain, Swannanoa, East Asheville. Will be on air 9a to 9pm at bottom of the hour to relay information at the hour. Simplex net. If too busy, go to 146.550. #NCSTRONG #NCwx #Helene #Swannanoa #Asheville #BlackMountain
Called for someone in Little Switzerland. "hit very hard" people trapped and can't get out of there. Rescuers are doing all they can to get to them. Wild Acres Resort - 40 people trapped. Will take day s to get to them via KJ4PPS. "It's all devastate out there... hotel fell off the mountain... it's all bad" #NCSTRONG #NCwx #Helene #LittleSwitzerland
KN4WRX knows of someone with Starlink in Little Switzerland if they need it. #NCSTRONG #NCwx #Helene #LittleSwitzerland
In Henderson/Horseshoe area. Rent and Bone? on Hwy 64 east towards Brevard will be feeding community around 2 to 2:30pm until they run out of food. Just past Rugby Road on the 64. #NCwx #NCSTRONG #Helene #Henderson
Diapers/paper good/supplies being distributed at Asheville Mall Barnes & Noble. No food. via K1JU #NCStrong #NCwx #Asheville
Pensacola is "wiped out" (unclear what ham radio op means). Newdell Bridge is out. #NCSTRONG #NCwx #Asheville
me_valentijnPensacola NC may be one of those tiny communities that got washed away. Very low ground in a river valley, and the river dominates that valley in the Pensacola area even under normal conditions, with multiple branches snaking through it and even a bunch of marshy ponds formed to hold the water.
Nearby community on a creek feeding the river, with similar topography: https://x.com/JudgeBobOrr/status/1840136256690196951/photo/1
Nearest town: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhH5Y2pFYcU
No direct reports for Pensacola - probably still cut off.
This is the road going from Pensacola, very near the town of Burnsville. There's also a much longer and much windier road following a ridge going out to Barnardsville from Pensacola, but it's guaranteed to be covered with downed trees and/or landslides.
https://x.com/JudgeBobOrr/status/1840086617341460688/photo/1
The Burnsville Hub facebook page is public now. A lot of roads wiped out, including ones going toward Pensacola. Someone there said a helicopter pilot landed: "Said no one knew about Pensacola and it was one of the worst hit he’s seen in WNC. There are a lot of people helping."
https://www.facebook.com/groups/burnsvillehub/posts/1608502736426865/
Locals say helicopters have been very active in the Cattail Creek area as of nearly 24 hours ago, which is up the smaller branch that feeds into the river in Pensacola NC. People are getting airlifted out from Cattail Creek, so no doubt they're be paying attention to Pensacola and upstream areas of Cane River too.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/burnsvillehub/posts/1609362196340919/
Burnsville Hub | Does anyone have any info about the this area of Deep Gap rd in cattail creek | Facebook
Does anyone have any info about the this area of Deep Gap rd in cattail creek? My grandmas house is the first house on the left when you turn onto Deep Gap rd. I’ve been on this page all day for the...
A view of "downtown" Pensacola (two churches and a tiny general store) over the past few days: https://www.facebook.com/seth.edwards.940/posts/pfbid05RrsKRtM6vD4dhhfnz6UMKJaPqWuGxUeiZzYbFb3kqNrCTs1Lr5jdVU8GfpWqUatl
~360 degree video at https://www.facebook.com/seth.edwards.940/videos/1413003903421281/
I wasn't sure from the video (the camera person might have standing it front of it, but the general store near the churches is definitely gone.
The photo is in an album with more before-and-after shots of the region: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2941732119318182&set=pcb.1609729786304160
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From the Asheville subreddit:
"From Ham Radio - Mt. Mitchell repeater EOC
SUPPLIES AVAILABLE IN BURNSVILLE AT PENSACOLA FIRE STATION
From Ham operator Byron - There are supplies available at the Pensacola Fire Station.
They have received the first delivery of supplies via helicopter, 4 wheeler, and side by side. People are encouraged to come get supplies, as needed.
There is a route in to Burnsville via ATV, but that is the only route in currently to the Pensacola area."
https://www.reddit.com/user/sittingbulloch/ is providing regular updates regarding what they're hearing via the Mt. Mitchell EOC radio repeater, including from a lot of isolated communities where rescues and evacuations are still underway.
That Reddit user doesn't have the capacity to send any info via ham radio into that area.
@me_valentijn Awesome, I haven't had the bandwidth to post it all.