Investigate Earth Conspiracy Podcast - Hurricane Helene Devastation Live Western North Carolina

Episode Date: October 1, 2024

On this episode, Sheri and I discuss the devastation from Hurricane Helene that has impacted our area in both Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina. Millions are without power (including us) and hundreds are dead with thousands missing. Could Hurricane Helene end up being worse than Katrina? Many are also asking the question, where is our government. This episode was recorded on our phone, so pardon the low volume. We love you all! For anyway we can help, please email [e-mail]

Hello everyone and welcome to Investigate Earth Podcast. I'm your host chat alongside my beautiful wife, Sherry, on tonight's episode. We're going to be talking about Hurricane Helene. Now, a disclaimer, you're probably not going to hear us very loud because we are recording this episode on my cell phone. Thanks to the Spreaker app, which is just recently actually created and released for creators from IHeart. So thank you to IHeart and Spricker to allow us to be able to do this. Very, very strange episode tonight because we are recording. recording in our backyard. You might hear some cicadas in the background. You might actually

even hear some generators going in the neighborhood. But we are right now sitting by candlelight in our backyard as our house is dark, with the exception of some candles as well burning there. Now for those that don't know, we are located in the upstate of South Carolina, the northern part of South Carolina, essentially in the Greenville-Spartonburg area. Our area has been without power since Friday morning. There are thousands and thousands of customers without power. I think just in our county alone, we had like 180,000 people in the county total. And I believe only 4,000 of those people had power when this started. We are still obviously without power. And not just that, we have very, very limited access to gas. As soon as gas comes available

at gas stations, it is quickly gone within an hour or so. and so we want to talk about our experience but also we want to shed light on what the situation that is going on in western north carolina right now in the ashore area hendersonville uh transylvania county there are so many counties in western north carolina that are affected right now now this obviously hits close to home to us number one we're only an hour away number two that is where a lot of my family is that's where i grew up that's where i was born my mom's there brothers are there or brother and other family members so we want to to shed light on that. We want to talk briefly about at least what we went through. We want to talk a

little bit about what we are seeing as far as the response goes and all that. So Sherry, I guess let's start with Thursday night. We started getting pretty heavy rain, right? And I think you were even outside. Yeah. Dancing in the rain. I was. I was out there dancing in the rain because you guys know me. I'm a little bit on the cray-cra side and I enjoy the rain. So yeah, I went out and dance in the rain. I said, Chad, come on, dance in the rain, but he didn't. Anyways, the rain was pretty intense Thursday night, and it rained all night. Yeah, it did. That was leading into Hurricane Helene.

Now, Hurricane Helene made landfall, I believe it was Thursday in Florida, if I'm not mistaken. But you also have to understand that Western North Carolina is a very mountainous area. It's the Southern Appalachians. And the Southern Appalachian Mountains have been getting. getting hammered with rain really the past three weeks. But in particular, with Hurricane Helene, what made this situation very, very different was even when Hurricane Helene was off the coast of Naples, Florida, which is the southernmost tip of Florida besides Key West area,

you had a hurricane that was expelling tons and tons of moisture right up into western North Carolina. I believe it was even the night before Thursday. I think it was Wednesday night that they were getting torrential. rains. They were already starting to flood Wednesday. Now my mom, I still have not talked to since, I believe Thursday evening, maybe Friday morning. Maybe Friday morning. Yeah, it's Friday morning, because we woke up at 444 Friday morning and I think we talked to your mom at 630 a.m. Yeah. And the eye was getting ready to come close to us. Yeah. Yeah, I actually look. So yeah,

we woke up at 444. This is kind of how it all started for us. About 4.44 a.m. We had, woke up because it had started getting windy, torrential rains. We were sleeping upstairs that night. And I was able, obviously, at this time, we have power, we have internet. And so I got on my phone and went on the radar. And keeping also in mind that the meteorologists were saying that this hurricane was going to track probably way west of us, essentially over Atlanta or in middle Georgia. And so as I started seeing this hurricane not taking that westerly track, that eye was a very, very, very defined eye still all the way in central. Yeah, all the way in central Georgia. And I had seen that even the night, I think it was, I don't know, one or two in the morning. I was looking at radar.

I was like, man, this thing still has a pretty big eye. The winds are still strong. Well, about 444, I saw the eye was probably, I don't know, 40, 50 miles south of us. and I said, man, this thing is tracking like we're going to be right on the east side of the eye wall. Very, very still defined eye. And this is, you know, what? It made landfall in Florida, came all the way through Georgia in the South Carolina and still had a very, very defined eye. And I don't know about you guys, but I've never seen a hurricane like this that will be defined and go up three or four states and still be a hurricane.

Yeah, it's nuts. We've never seen anything like this. Even if you go back to Hurricane Hugo, which destroyed a lot of North Carolina and South Carolina in particular, this is far worse. So it was probably about 530 now. What we're talking about is I had looked on radar as well. Again, and I said, you know, the eye is probably 20 miles from us now, 15, and it looks like we're going to be exactly on the east side eye wall. And so it was about 545 to 6 a.m., the eye essentially tracked right over Anderson, South Carolina, which is a. is probably about 45 to 40 minutes west of us.

And it put our county exactly on that easterly eye wall. So we had the strongest winds as this hurricane was coming through. We had sustained winds at times to 65 to 70 miles an hour for probably an hour, I would say, as this thing moved across. And I don't know what the official gust were, but I'm telling you right. I heard it was in the upper 70s. No, no, no. The official gust, I've seen 90 potentially.

Oh, okay. Yeah, just, you know, 10 miles south of us. There are reports that maybe even some gust were up to 100 miles an hour. You know, we were looking out the window as this thing was coming through, and we have massively tall oak trees that line a lot of the houses kind of on our road. And I can see the oak tree at our neighbor's house that was, I mean... Bending. Yeah, it was completely bending.

It was, you know, this tree is probably, what, 80 foot tall? and it was bending over their house. And I was like, man, if these trees break, it's going to destroy these houses. Luckily, a lot of those trees did not break. But the eyewall moved through. We started getting intermittent power outages. So the power would go out for two or three seconds,

come back on. Power would go out for two or three seconds, five minutes later, come back on. That happened for about 30 minutes. After that 30-minute time frame, the power finally went. And once the power finally went out, We have not had power since.

That was Friday morning. It is now Monday. So we, obviously, we were awake the entire morning. We went out to kind of start surveying damage. I don't know, probably 9 or 10 o'clock that morning. There were trees down everywhere. I mean, I'm talking about it was probably every, I don't know, 100 feet. You guys, these trees were so bad and so fat.

They're, like, fatter than a kitchen table. And they were going across all the roads in our neighborhood. We could not even get out of our neighborhood. I'm talking humongous trees that look, I don't know, 200 years old. I don't know, but they're huge. Yeah. And a lot of these trees, you know, when this stuff happens, you know, especially to bigger trees, you know, they have a ton of weight. And when you have a lot of wind and especially a lot of rain, you know, oftentimes they don't necessarily break, but they uproot.

Yes, they uprooted. And it was just crazy. And these uprooting where these trees came out, I'm telling you, it's probably like 10 feet holes in people's, yards where these massive trees fell over. Yeah. So power was out. We heard that basically everyone was out without power. We, when we finally were able to get off, I think it was Saturday because they cleared the trees, at least in our neighborhood, there was no, you know, red lights working.

And when Chad says, they cleared our trees. We have to say, we do live in a golf course community and thank God for that because the golf course maintenance guys were out there actually cutting the trees out of the road so we could. get out because we've not seen anyone no power trucks no tree cutters nothing yeah we we still really have not seen many of them now we're going to get to that but um so as we kind of went out we saw that there was obviously if you don't have power you don't have red lights no red lights were working so everyone was just kind of doing their own thing um gas stations were closed down uh you know grocery stores were closed everything is basically closed And with the exception, finally, it was a couple days,

Publix did have a generator to where they allowed people to come in. They had to throw out every single piece of meat or anything. There was a refrigerator or frozen. They had to throw all that out. And the only thing that they were allowing people to get was obviously non-perishable foods. And that went pretty fast. Oh, and it was in the dark. And I'm talking about thousands of people probably in this grocery store.

And people were not very nice. nice to each other because I think people just get desperate in these kind of situations. But it was very odd to me that toilet paper and paper towels never went out of stock. No, they didn't care about that this time. They were very, very careful to take as much food as possible and as much water as possible. So then we started seeing, you know, a gas station here or there that would have gas for a very short time. There were miles long lines. Three hour wait. Yeah, where people were lined up. And when you see that, Obviously, it just reminds you of some type of doomsday's type Civil War type situation.

But the bad thing, obviously, we started seeing there was that people were hoarding gas. They had as many gas cans as they possibly could, and they were taking as much gas as they possibly could. And this was what was creating a gas shortage very fast, especially if you only have one or two gas stations open in an entire county. And then you have everyone going to these gas stations and everyone filling as many gas cans up, possible, including their vehicles or getting their family's vehicles filled up, all of this. This is what creates a shortage. So, obviously, we have been without power. We have been okay. We have some, some food supply. We're not completely out of food. We've not ever really been out of food or any of that stuff. We were caught off guard by this. I mean, make no mistake.

We could have had more gas in our vehicles, which we did not. You know, we, I don't know, we never expected it to be this bad just in our area. And I don't think anybody else did as well. You know, when they always tell you, like, make sure all your vehicles are always filled up, that's very important. Because when vehicles are not filled up and an emergency situation happens that you are not expecting or prepared for, then that completely takes you out of the game. Because then, you know, if you do have to go somewhere else, if you have to flee, you have to bug out, your gas situation is going to be the first killer. And so that was one of the things we realized were like, man, you know, in the truck we got like 70 miles to empty. I think it was originally 80.

But if you drove a little bit, you know, that 10 miles means everything. Sherry's car, we didn't have a ton of gas in there as well. So that was a massive screw up on our part. But I want to start talking a little bit also about and we'll get into kind of a little bit more of our situation in a minute, which like I said, in comparison to some people in also the upstate, but especially. Western North Carolina. Our situation is nothing in comparison to those people. Lake Lure, North Carolina is completely gone. I mean, much of the village, much of the housing along the river there and into Lake Lure Village is completely destroyed. We have communities in Western North Carolina that still emergency officials cannot access. And I know this because

I have emergency officials in my contacts. I've talked to many of those people. actually had one of them go check on my mom, you know, at her home. He tried to get there for days. Couldn't I get there? Finally. Because of the creek. I think it was yesterday morning he was able to get there. My mom's entire road was completely flooded. Most of the bridges along the creek there on my mom's road in the mountains were completely washed out. With the exception of my mom and stepdad's bridge. They still have somewhat of a bridge. I actually got sent a picture today of their bridge. It's barely hanging on, but it is still there. My mom is doing okay. But, you know, she is on oxygen. She has COPD. She has a, you know, she's had lung cancer. She's had a lot of issues.

And so obviously we have been desperately worried about her, especially considering she needs oxygen to survive. I know one of her, her main auction machine requires power. and I'm not exactly sure how that system works, but I know they did have oxygen bottles. But then you get into Asheville where essentially most of Asheville, North Carolina has been cut off to the outside world. You cannot get there from Tennessee, from Charlotte area, from South Carolina. In most cases, I know there are some roads that are now, I guess, partially open, I believe, on the southern Asheville side to get into Asheville. but there are people that emergency officials still have had zero access to be able to get to in the western North Carolina Mountains. This place is completely, completely devastated.

And to be honest, we've not seen a ton of footage. The little bit of footage and pictures here and there from either our friends sending a family, people like that that have sent us pictures, it's horrifying. It's very sad. And it sounds like that it's going to take them years, if ever, in some case. to rebuild some of these places. Yeah, and there's many, many people missing right now, especially in the Asheville area.

And unfortunately, many people have lost their lives in South Carolina and North Carolina. I'm talking about, we have heard reports of bodies and cars that are still in cars that they can't even get to. Yeah, potentially bodies and cars they can't get to that have been, either were caught in a flood situation or whatever the case may be. We have heard other reports maybe,

and listen, all of these are, not confirmed necessarily, but other reports that there have been bodies floating or in yards of people. We don't know maybe those are potentially bodies from graveyards because oftentimes, like if you guys know, which I don't think it would be the case in North Carolina, but, you know, during Hurricane Katrina, you know, Hurricane Katrina was a situation where in New Orleans, they would actually bury a lot of bodies above ground in the vaults. And so when these things would flood. Yeah, they were at sea level. Yeah, they were below sea level, actually. sea level, yeah. And so they would bury them above ground. And so that's why you saw a lot of

dead bodies that were in graveyards floating during Katrina. So I don't know if some of these body stories in Western North Carolina are that of people in graves. I doubt it potentially. But I just think that we still truly do not understand the gravity of the situation in Western North Carolina. But I know as of right now, there's a thousand people missing in North Carolina. Yeah. And I think there potentially could be more than that. We don't know for sure right now how many people are missing. And we don't even know the total number of deaths in Western North Carolina. South Carolina, I know that last I'd heard in the upstate area, I believe we'd had nine or ten. I don't know if that's went up since then. It's hard to get a lot

of information right now. But I believe the deaths in South Carolina are due to trees falling into homes. Yeah, many of these, okay, I guess what I will say is how upstate South Carolina got hit really hard was less by the rain, even though, yes, we absolutely had flooding in a lot of portions of upstate South Carolina. But I think as if we go back to what I was saying about the radar, and literally as the eye wall was moving over our county, and if you look on the blue dot on our radar, it shows you where exactly we were. And then it also shows where the eye wall was. It was the worst of the worst part of the eyewall and it was before the hurricane actually hit the mountains and obviously the mountains will disrupt a lot of a lot of that wind as it's coming through because you know it just it kind

of starts to rip apart that system the problem for the mountains of north carolina was you still had plenty of wind in western north Carolina and that torrential rain that had been streaming from this hurricane since it had been in southern Florida in the gulf of mexico before i think it was two days before this hurricane ever made landfall. This rain had been streaming into western North Carolina for days before this. This is something I've never seen. This is something that many people are questioning. As far there is.

Well, I'm not even going to get into the weather modification stuff on this episode because there's a lot of stuff we can talk about on weather modification. But yeah, there's absolutely people that are talking about the weather modification aspect of this. Did that happen in this case? I don't know. We have not been able, obviously, to really, really, truly research that. But what I can tell you is that I've never seen a hurricane stream moisture like this since the hurricane had formed in southern Florida like I saw in this situation.

And I even told Sherry the two days before that, I said, I don't understand how they're getting hammered with rain from the system. And it almost looked like the hurricane itself. I almost thought when the hurricane had hit or was going to make landfall, I actually thought that maybe it wasn't going to be as strong because it seemed like most of the energy was being pushed north ahead of the storm days before. And yet the storm still was able to maintain this volatility or velocity, I guess you can say. It made landfall in Florida as a category four storm with, I think it was what, 130, 40 mile an hour winds or gust at least. and let's also not forget people in Florida, right?

I mean, people in Florida and Georgia have also been heavily affected. There are beaches gone in Florida in the Panhandle. There are many people that have been affected in Georgia. So this is not just about, obviously, Western North Carolina and South Carolina, although, yes, obviously South Carolina and North Carolina are our home. This is where we live. And so I want to go ahead and first say that, you know, we need to pray for these people in Western North Carolina, in the upstate of South Carolina, in Florida, in Georgia that were affected by this storm.

what I can say is that I hope that what this will do for people is is wake them up a little bit as far as preparedness goes, being prepared for the for the unthinkable, being prepared for the unexpected. And there are 100% lessons that Sherry and I have learned from this as well. We've been talking about this, by the way, Sherry. I mean, we've been talking for a year and especially leading into this election. We've been saying, you know, something big is going to happen. Something big is going to happen, something big is going on. And there's so many things right now that are going on. And it kills us because we can't do a podcast.

We can't dive and research and do all this stuff right now because we just have no access to be able to do that. But, you know, it was two days ago when the biochemical lab explosion happened in Conyers, Georgia, which was just east, I think it's east or northeast of Atlanta. And you had this massive, massive plume of toxic smoke that was being exerted into the atmosphere, which was even able to be seen on satellite, how big this explosion was. And it was also very interesting that two or three hours after this explosion, we had, it went from a normal, sunny day to a cloudy, weird-looking, cloudy sky.

And I believe that was yesterday, Chad. Was it yesterday? Yeah. I'm losing track of days at this point. I really am. Yeah, it was yesterday. But, you know, I have to say we are safe. We don't have power.

We do have hot water, so thankfully for that, because you don't think about not having power. Oh, no big deal, you don't have power. But it is, it's like living on house on the prairie or, you know, you think about, like, in our house, for example, our house is very, very warm. Especially when you like candles and all these kind of things. You're not getting any air. There's no wind. It's like easier to be outside than it is inside. Yeah.

And a lot of people forget about that. Everybody's like, we need battery operated fans. So I made a list of things that I wish we would have had during the storm. You can get that. You can get a list if you want. We'll go over that in a second. But guys, before we do that, I want to talk to you guys just for a minute about generators. You think about generators and how they run.

They run off of gasoline or propane. Yeah. You know, because we don't have electricity. You think about what our politicians. want us to do. They want us to run everything on electricity. Electric cars, electric this, electric that, not even having a gas stove. Do you really want to be stuck in the dark? Because that's what happens if you are on all electric. I have learned that and that is very clear to me. And I'll tell you, I mean, if you look at what's saving people's asses right now in this storm is gas. It is gas. It is fossil fuels,

aka fossil fuels. That's a whole other podcast, which we'll talk about. Some of other time. But what I'm saying is, is what's saving people's lives right now is, is gas. It is oil. It is the fuel to fuel people's homes, to fuel helicopters that are going to Asheville, North Carolina. These are civilian helicopters that have been flying into Ashton, or Ashton, Asheville, North Carolina. And we're talking about people like Cletus McFarland, which some of you may know his YouTube channel, Cletus McFarland. He recently had a head. helicopter um i guess he bought it from somewhere in below i think it was brazil he had been renovating this thing for the past six or seven months he finally gets this thing renovated and completely i mean

this helicopter's awesome you got to see the picture of it's the the freedom i think it's called the freedom something i can't remember beautiful blue helicopter and then it's got like kind of stars yeah it's got like a gray stars and stripes theme but he had just got this thing done like a week or two ago and so when he had heard about the situation that was going on and in Western North Carolina, he flew from Florida to Asheville to give people water, supplies, everything you could possibly give them, he did. And not only did he do that, he also coordinated with other helicopter pilots in the area to meet up at a certain location, get in a group, get coordinated,

and let's actually go and help these people that desperately need her help. And let me tell you why. Well, and we're going to get in this a little bit. I want to first start by saying that the heroicness of our first responders and emergency personnel throughout the situation, especially in Western North Carolina, but I'm sure also in Florida and Georgia and also South Carolina. But in Western North Carolina, I'm seeing heroicness that you've never seen before in that area. I mean, we're talking about swift water rescues. We're talking about however they can possibly get to these people. They are.

But also, they're very, very limited by resources and how to be able to get to some of these people. I mean, there are entire towns and villages that are completely cut off. from emergency services, phone, water, everything, food, you name it, to where people cannot get to them unless it is only by helicopter. And so I don't 100% know what the National Guard response was. What I do know is that it wasn't enough. The government response was not enough. FEMA's response was too little, too late, in my opinion.

They are just now apparently showing up in certain parts of North Carolina. I know they did just fly in a C-17 Globmaster into Asheville tonight. They do have Chinooks that are also operating. I know Tennessee is sending National Guardsmen from Tennessee, I believe also Georgia, Kentucky. There are various other states that are sending guardsmen. But I've got to be honest with you, looking at the situation from a government perspective, and this is something I have been raising hell about since the very beginning. And I want to make something clear, too.

It's not our power situation that pisses me off about it. is the poor management and planning of the entire situation. And I don't know exactly who is at fault there. I do know that when you need help from what your supposed federal government is supposed to help you do, they should be there to help you. You know, they should be instead of sending billions and billions and billions of dollars to Ukraine and Israel and all these other places. We have to understand right now that we have an entire southeast of the United States of America that is hurting. and desperate in need for help from our government.

We need the billions and billions of dollars that they have given Ukraine, the amount of force and legwork and cooperation, and all this BS secrecy that they have, you know, incorporated companies like Lockheed Martin and Skunkworks and the military industrial complex and all of these people to fight Russia. We need that kind of help in Western North Carolina in particular. But do you think our government is going to do that? I don't think so. And let me tell you why. Before Sherry gets in her list,

we've talked to various people that do not live in this area whatsoever. We have talked to people in Florida. We have talked to people in, um, where else? Well, in Chicago, your mom. Yeah, my mom. There's so many people that really don't even know. Yeah, don't even know what's going on. Yeah. They don't talk about this anywhere. And I just don't understand why this is not national news. This, I mean, we're in a state of emergency right now. Even spark. Parkmore County, we are declared in a state of emergency. We finally today have started seeing power trucks, tree trucks, and we actually saw the National Guard. Well, we have not seen, let me rephrase that.

We have not seen power trucks working per se. No, we've seen them traveling like down the highways, the interstates. Yeah, yeah, they're getting off interstates and then either, you know, stage in a couple. And we're talking about two or three or four or five trucks. Now, I want to also say this briefly. I'm trying to get out as much information as we can because we have, We do have limited battery, although we are able to charge our phones and do certain things like that. We are not expected, apparently, to have power back until Friday at the earliest.

And, you know, all schools in Spartanburg County, Greenville County, all close for the rest of the week. Because no one does have power. They're saying that power might not even come on until the following week now. Yeah. There are various reports that are saying maybe we don't have power until the week after. We don't know what's going on, but also, according to law enforcement people that I have contact with in Western North Carolina, and in particular, Western North Carolina, you know, there are reports that they have backlogs of calls from various regions that are, I mean, we're talking about two, three, four, 500 calls in some cases, in some places. And a lot of those calls are for burglaries and robberies. Yeah, because tell them what we've seen on Facebook, what people are, what's happening.

and we saw some freaky stuff in our neighborhood last night. Yeah, so some of the stuff we've seen, especially just, you know, you got to remember, I grew up in their area, I grew up in Western North Carolina. So seeing some of these posts and some of these warnings to people, there have been people going to certain people's homes talking about, hey, you've got to evacuate, you've got to go to this place. When certain people evacuate, then they rob their house after they leave. I mean, this is the world we live in.

We have definitely seen, I'll put it as a way. seen looting just in our neighborhood, just around our gas stations. You know, when you go to a gas station, you'll see like a bunch of bottle water outside and all the ice chests outside, you know, and they stack things out on the outside. Well, even the first day, Friday afternoon, we're watching people loot all the water and putting it in their trucks. And the gas station was closed. Yeah. Yeah. And it's not even that. We've also seen people standing outside of grocery stores. We've seen people, which I don't know exactly what they were doing on if they're planning on looting or whatever the case is. But we've also just seen various people as well that are walking throughout town that we've never seen before.

I mean, we're talking about people that, you know, 30, 40 plus that are walking along the roads. Many of these people do not speak English. They're coming from various places that we don't know. It's just, it's a very, very strange time. Last night, I was outside, went out the front of the first. to the front yard completely pitch dark and um as i was out there i you know there's down the road there's a couple people that have you know the solar lights that are in their front yard and so before you get to our house there's like a curve in the road and i had seen you know if you're

looking down the road and you're looking at someone's i guess what you can say solar light i seen like shadows like figures passing the light so i knew someone was walking down the road that's the only way I could see that something was going in between that light. And this was about two or three houses down. So about, I don't know, a couple minutes later, there was like 10 people that passed. What time do you think that was? About 10.45 at night, somewhere around there. But there was about 10 people that passed looked to be in a lot of black clothing.

I don't know. I mean, I say black clothing, but it was definitely dark clothing. And not one single person was speaking or talking at all. I mean, and that's what actually alerted me because I was like, if it was 10 kids or teenagers or whatever, they would be talking. It would probably be a lot louder than you can imagine. And these people disappeared in the neighborhood. I told Sherry about it. I immediately got my gun just to make sure because when you go through stuff like this, when entire neighborhoods are blacked out and dark and you will have people that are going to take advantage of that.

There are a lot of people right now that are in desperate situations. and instead of them trying to go to find an open store or whatever the case may be, they are going to come to houses that they think that they can rob or still from. This is a very dangerous time, especially for a lot of people in certain areas. And it's the worst case scenarios to see this is how humanity operates sometimes. It is. You know, you should be giving and helping each other at times like this.

And you're not seeing that. You're seeing people hoard things. You're seeing people fight basically in grocery stores. I'm not I'm talking about when we went to public because we did go look for water because we wanted extra water. In the store, there was a line around the store just to get to the cash register. Yeah. It was crazy. And people like basically were fighting over peanut butter.

Yeah, people are fighting. And also, you know, when you have a system put in place to where there's no red lights and people are just expected to somehow navigate that. Most people do a good job. some people do not at all. And those people are probably why besides the trees down and all those type of emergencies, that's probably also why the fire department

has remained very busy the past few days. That's all you hear is sirens around here. But I also wanted to mention too, you know, there are quite a few of our neighbors, you know, thank God that they either had a generator or they bought a generator. But, you know, everyone's generators are just sitting on their driveway in the front yard.

And I just wonder, Are these people out there trying to get to steal their generators? Are they? And there's a lot of people that have fleed. They've left the area. They've gone towards the beach. They've took their kids away. You know, because like the first two days, even our neighbors, they have three young children.

And it's hard to entertain children with no TV, no radio, no nothing. So they would actually have the kids in the van watching their shows in their minivan for hours. Yeah. So finally, you know, a lot of our neighbors have got out of here. They left. You know, I don't think, you know, if we had young children, we might have thought about it. But because it's Chad and I, we can deal with it, you know, we're not, you know, we can survive. Yeah, we got, look, you know, we're not worried about people looting us.

I mean, if they do, then that's going to be the last loot they do. I will put it that way. But what I will say, you know, we've been torn too. I mean, we have, sorry, our dog, our dog is barking. Yeah, that's why they can't loot either. One second. All right, guys. back um by the way i don't know how this pausing slash stopping works but you're about to find out um

what i was saying is yeah we are prepared when it comes to that but one of my biggest things has been is my mom has been in western north carolina almost or basically non-accessible except for if you are within a mile from her right now luckily we have had amazing people that have went and checked on her we had a um a high-ranking official in the sheriff's department has been there forever which is a community hero in Henderson County, North Carolina. I won't even mention his name, but he deserves a lot of credit. He works for a fire department up there right now. He's technically retired from the Sheriff's Department, but he's never really retired.

He's never going to retire because he's just that type of person. He's the guy that always cares about his community, always cares about the people that care about him and he cares about. And so, you know, he was the guy that was out there waiting to get into Mom's Road to be able to check on her. and they finally did, and that's when he kind of, you know, phoned in and said, hey, your mom's good. She says she loves you. You know, they have no phone service here, keep in mind. Western North Carolina essentially has zero phone service. Many towers are down.

Most cell phone carriers do not have service there. It is a complete failure of the system. And when I say system, I'm talking about the power system, the communication system. 9-1-1 has been down here and in Western North Carolina as well. And so for us, we do have a place to go in Hilton Head. We chose not to do that. We could have literally just packed everything and said, screw this on Friday and went to Hilton Head. Well, not Friday, but probably yesterday we could have done that.

Right. But we have elderly dogs, so it's kind of hard to leave the dogs. And we are actually supposed to let two of them go to heaven on Wednesday. I don't know if that's going to happen now because they're very elderly and they're very sick. And this has been a trying time just with the dogs. Yeah. But we also kind of just wanted to stay around as well because, you know, we didn't know what mom's situation was.

What if we had to go and rescue her or some type of way? But I think she's going to be able to make her way to the beach, hopefully. If all goes well, she might be able to actually get out of there. There is a route into South Carolina from North Carolina from where she's at right now. But there's a lot of places north of her that you cannot get to South Carolina. You cannot basically get anywhere besides where you're at. And so this is what we've just kind of been dealing with. It's been tough.

Obviously, if you don't have power, that's one thing. It could be a lot worse. And that's why I want to stress. If you guys can help in any way, share of form, be very vigilant. I wish I could tell you the place to go help people or to, if you wanted to donate or contribute to the cause. As soon as we find out what the best avenue to do that is, we will absolutely update probably on our X and our Facebook and Instagram. Just check especially our Facebook and our X.

X is where we post primarily. It is the easiest platform, especially to post on when we don't have a lot of service whatsoever. And just make sure that if you do donate, make sure it's legit and there's no scams involved or any of that stuff. And if you are listening right now and you are from Western North Carolina, and you are potentially over a, you know, a, what is it called a charity or a relief organization or whatever the case may be, please reach out to us and let us know.

Our email is Investigate Earth Podcast at Protonmail.com. That is how you can reach out to us and let us know what organization you represent, how we and our listeners can best help this situation. but Sherry had had wrote down some things about some of the things that you know you don't necessarily realize that you need yeah and I don't have my glasses but I text my brother I can read if you want me too I text my brother other night and I was like oh my god he's going to kill me because my texts were actually going out by I was making my list of things I wish I had that I didn't and some of them are silly you know nonsense things but to others they're very important like number one my first thing on my list was I will die without Coke zero. I'm not kidding. No longer will I not have Coke zero in the house. We'll bear it back. Here Chad, I'll give you the list because I don't have my glasses, but I might have to not read some of this stuff. Well, I'm just telling these are the things that I wished I had and some of the things we do, but I'm just I made a list of things that are important in situations like this. Some things we do have like candles and batteries and flashlights and, you know, things like that, but people forget.

that this could happen any time you have to be prepared. Yeah. So some of it, obviously, besides Coke Zero's bottled water, solar batteries, many people don't realize there are definitely batteries out there that are solar. And we've had, I think we've actually had solar batteries before. I don't know where they went. We had them during camping. We used to have a ton of camp.

We still have a lot of cam of stuff. Like, if we had to survive right now and go out in the woods or whatever, we can survive. We have, you know, enough guns and ammo, filtration systems, water stuff, purifying all that we have that if we had to survive on necessity. But these are things like if your power goes out in an event like this, things you would want maybe. Propane, extra propane is definitely needed. Cash money.

But just thinking about propane for just a minute, guys, your stove doesn't work unless you have a gas stove. The only way you can heat anything is on a grill. And think about the people that just have charcoal grills. Oh my God. How long it is to just heat those up. Yeah, there's been so many people that have asked us, Hey, you guys have charcoal or do you know where charcoal is or this and that?

And there's so many people that do not have propane grills. So that is a huge thing for that. Yeah, and I would add like firewood too to that. Because if you don't have propane or charcoal, at least you would have fire to warm food up if you needed it. Yeah. So also cash money. Obviously cash is king when it comes to power outages. There's, there are, I mean, there are definitely places around here that take cards somehow.

I'm not exactly sure how. how we're actually going to be able to upload this episode, which hopefully we're going to be able to upload this episode, is there is a cracker barrel, which is not far away, that somehow has Wi-Fi. So we're going to try to go to the parking lot tonight to upload this episode because there's no way we're going to do it just on basic service. But extra gas, obviously extra gas is king.

And especially if you have a vehicle that has charging capabilities or inverters. I know our truck does, you know, we can charge phones, We can charge various things. Even has an actual outlet in there. So if you had a freaking, you know, whatever. I mean, you could plug anything in there. But gas is needed, obviously, in that scenario. Like even if you had a gas can, just make sure it's full.

Yeah, generators, obviously, generators are key, but, you know, that goes back to the gas and propane thing. You know, you've got to have enough gas and you have to have enough gas or propane to be able to run that generator. Now, they do make generators that are a, electric and solar generators. And so most of those generators, even the $13,400, you know, what I would say, electric generators or solar generators are somewhere around the, I don't know, I think the highest level ones maybe you can get is 2,200 watts. And, you know, most gas generators are between 4,000.

And some of those go even up as far as the 12,000 and even further than that if you get in a really big generator. But I didn't realize what the generators, too, you can't. cannot power your whole house. You have you have certain plug-ins. So you got to think about what is most important to you. Is air more important? Is electricity more important? Is your refrigerator more important? Well, yeah, I mean, generators, you have to have an electrician come in to your home and actually install a I don't know what the exact thing is called, but it's basically where you can plug your generator into your breaker box and then it can power pretty much your home, but you all obviously you would have to be very restricted on what you're powering there. So there is that. But then otherwise, you just use drop cords and so on. But like I was saying a minute ago,

is that the solar generators are good in the case that you get to power phones or certain battery operated things, all that stuff. Those are good. And especially they're solar. You don't have to have gas or the propane. As long as you have sun, you will get enough energy to be able to power basic things. Now, all of this doesn't mean anything, obviously, if everything's down.

And it doesn't really matter. If you have no gas, you have none of this stuff, everything goes to shit, doesn't matter. So something else, let's see, battery operated fans, that's obviously something that, you know, even in our situation, it's very muggy and stuffy in the house. It would be nice to have that. Batteries, candles is a big one. We've been using a ton of candles. It says ice, but, you know, you can only store ice in certain ways. Now, Sherry, the good way to store ice for a long period time in a draining way is what?

Yeah, I learned this on the internet before this went out, and I was like, I got to try this. But if you can put a couple bags of ice in your washer and then fill it with drinks, water, can drinks, whatever you want, beer, wine, whatever you need in there, it stays cold for days. And then it drains out of the washer so you don't have a mess to clean up. Like when you're a freezer, like right now, we have a freezer in our house. and we have a refrigerator and a freezer. Well, you know, everything's melted, so it's all over, you know, we have to keep putting towels down to dry it up. Yeah, absolutely.

Obviously, canned goods are essential because if there's no food, you at least have canned goods. And I think this is extremely important because canned goods are not that expensive, although they're much more expensive now than they have been. Yeah, Chad has lived off of Vienna sausages for every morning for breakfast. I like Biana Sotches even when the power is not out, actually, which is sad. They're definitely probably not good for you, but they, you know, they at least give you some sustainability and some protein and some of those things. And, you know, just carbs, you know, if you have water, you can heat it as long as you have fire or propane or something like that.

So noodles are always good because it'll give you energy. It'll give you those carbohydrates you're probably going to need, especially in situations like where we're facing right now. These are just some of the things, guys. and this is just for a basic power outage. Now, I want to say this. Yeah, not necessarily survival. Now, we have another potential hurricane that is brewing right now in the exact same place that Hurricane Helene brewed. Now, it doesn't seem like necessarily right now that this thing will invigorate itself and get to the same strength as Helene did, but we don't know.

I mean, you know, it's the same situation as when meteorologists were saying that, you know, hey, this is going to go far west and it's not going to this area and whatever the case is, meteorologists cannot predict weather anymore, it seems. And not saying that's necessarily their fault, because if you've listened to any of our harp episodes or our weather modification episodes, I think that has a ton to do with this. Now, I know this is a very, like, out, like, just very crash course episode and kind of what we've been through and what we know people in Western North Carolina have been through. But we are good. We are, you know, it's not like we're dying. as of right now, you know, we are going to have to look out for looters. We're going to have to look

out for people in a extremely dark county and counties and region for people that are susceptible or people that are going to open themselves up to be susceptible. And I go back to if you can arm yourself, if you can have weapons wherever you are, if you can have ammo and have those things, you know, feeling confident enough to where, you know, you have a weapon on you or you have it near you in situations like this, I just think that this is going to happen more often. I want to also point something out that, you know, we have a, we have a potential port strike that's about to happen. Right at the exact same time that we have this massive hurricane that just destroyed so much of the South. Now, I don't know if this port strike is going to happen. If it does, all along the

eastern seaboard, we're talking about a major supply chain disruption. And I have always said, is it a coincidence or not because i don't believe in coincidences and yet we're about to have this massive strike where it would completely disrupt supply chain and then you got to think about this all of the food that has been thrown out you know because of this hurricane over multiple states i mean how long is that going to take to be resupplied and once it is resupplied think about how many people are going to have to restock on that food and then think about if the supply chain is disrupted this is all leading into the election now a lot of you listening right now. You have power, you have water, you have all these things. You're like,

everything's fine here. I got internet. I can see what's going on? Everything's completely fine. But I'm just telling you, what if the entire country right now was like we are right now? What if the entire country was like Western North Carolina where you had no power, very, very limited access to information and almost like you feel like you have no voice? And I think that's been one of the hardest things for us is like we can't get up there on our podcast and our microphones and talk and research and do the things we need to do to get a message out. That's why we're literally resulting through a freaking phone. Yeah. And it is mentally exhausting. Like, I'm not going to lie. We have been on edge with each other just because of the situation. It exhausts you when you can't

sleep well at night because you don't have air conditioning and you can't sleep during the day because you don't have air. I mean, all these little things that interrupt your regular routine, it makes you very, very edgy. But it's not just that either. I mean, Yeah, you're right. It's absolutely that. I mean, it's absolutely the heat. It's absolutely the, you know, 40. It's also the uncertainty. It's also when is power going to come back on? And if power doesn't come back on, how long does it take people to lose their shit, right? And that's something that, you know. Yeah, and that's what I worry about. I worry about other people more than us. Yeah, like how long if say, for example, this power stayed out. Say it stayed out for two weeks from now. Say it stayed out for three weeks from now. Say it stayed out until the election. And so much of the South did not have power or access to information. or water or food or basic necessities, how long does it take people to lose their shit? It actually doesn't take people very long. You know something Bree said, which many of you know Bree,

and Bree has the end times, I think it's End Times Now podcast. Yeah. In Times Now podcast. She's been on our podcast many times. We actually just talked to her. She lives in Michigan now and we talked to her last night. She's like, what the hell? What's going on down there?

I've not really got a lot of information, but it's like she said, you know, this past weekend has been a weekend, you know, For a couple days, people were like, oh, this is kind of cool. You know, and so, I mean, not people in Western North. I'm just saying people that are without power, they're making the best of it. They're doing what they can. They, maybe they'll play games or play board games. They'll do this or do that.

But how long does it take people to lose their shit? How long does it take people to get desperate? And that all depends on when the systems come back up. And I think if anything, this, if you could be a part of a situation like this for an extended period of time, it's not advisable because it sucks, you know, and our situation doesn't suck near as bad as the people in Western North Carolina, obviously. But it still sucks because it disrupts everything. But it also makes you realize and understand how vulnerable,

how easy our systems and our power and our infrastructure can completely collapse. And it did in this scenario. And I'm telling you, there are already robberies. There is looting. There is everything going on in Western North Carolina. And here. And here. Absolutely here as well.

And I think the longer the power stays out, the longer things do not get back to normal. The worst it's going to get. And even when power gets back on, whenever that is. I think, like I said, the earliest, they are saying is Friday. We don't know for sure. Possibly next Monday or Tuesday. Possibly next Monday or Tuesday. But the longer it takes, the longer it takes the main infrastructure to come back up

we're talking about the grocery stores, the gas, all of this. There's going to be a backlog of a lot of stuff, whether it be the food supply, the gas supply. And then if you have this freaking supply chain situation that potentially is about to happen at midnight tonight, if you have this actually happen, this is going to massively cause a major issue also. And I cannot help but think that I've said that something major is going to happen. And then I saw today also, barely I saw this, but I saw this today, where Verizon customers from Arizona to the East Coast, in many cases were without service. They could not call out. They could not text in some cases. Verizon is, I guess, updating their customer base on a regular basis right now.

And there's just so much going on right now. I'm just telling you, and I've been telling you, it's going to get, I think, worse. This is not going to get better. And I'm telling you, even after the election, no matter who wins, it's going to get worse. But talking about that, I just want to point this out for a minute. And we haven't seen it ourselves, but we did when, you know, shoddy. You can kind of pull up Facebook a little bit. And you can see some posts sometimes.

But people are saying that Biden said no more money to people for Hurricane Haleen. So Chad said that he saw tonight that actually Elon Musk and Trump, are partnering up to help people in, where was it? Well, they're just trying to supply Starlink satellites to people at Western North Carolina, Georgia, whoever does not have access to information, to internet. It's going to be a very long time in Western North Carolina in certain regions, even in probably potentially upstate South Carolina as well, to get internet or information services back up.

And so I did see that Trump and Elon collaborated on that. They're going to team up on that, which is awesome. and it just seems like, you know, I've been pissed. I've been pissed off since Friday. And I've been pissed off because it's not even since Friday. I've been pissed off really since Saturday. As Saturday kind of went along, it's not about the power. And someone on X has said, wow, you guys don't have basic necessities to,

you don't even have the basics to survive a couple of days without power. Give me a break. Like, you know, they follow us on X. And by the way, whoever you are, I'm not even going to say anything. Because I'm trying to be nice right now. but what I will say is that the reason why it pisses me off, especially looking at Western North Carolina and the response by federal government so far

and even the response of like who sent who sent most of the power companies to Florida. I mean, I don't know. And listen, maybe they can say, well, we didn't expect it to be as strong as it went inland, but I do know that meteorologist said because of how fast the storm was coming in

and it was a category of four, it was going to probably maintain its strength up ahead of time. But also, how does someone also not know that for days ahead of this storm in Western North Carolina, they were getting pounded by rainfall? They, I mean, experts should have known this. I knew this. I'm not a freaking expert in that.

But I knew that they were already massively susceptible to massive flooding. And yet no one saw that. No one saw that like if you have a little bit of winds with 30 plus inches of rain in some cases and complete villages washed out that you're not going to need power companies and tree companies staged everywhere. I don't know who screwed it up.

I would, in my opinion, the federal government has a lot of responsibility in cases like that to where they coordinate FEMA and the federal agencies coordinate with state and local officials to make sure that people are going to be protected and all of that stuff. But when you pay the amount of money in taxes, that the United States citizens pay in taxes that are all going to Ukraine and other countries,

and yet your own government is not there prepared to help you. That's a problem. And that's what pisses me off. And it's because the government does not give a damn about you. They're all playing politics, giving all of your money to other countries. Meanwhile, there are people suffering right now and struggling.

And it's not just in Western North Carolina. It's not just in the southeast. We have a massive fentanyl problem. We have a huge homeless problem. We have inflation out of the, freaking roof where people cannot even afford basic necessities and groceries to where there are more homeless people in this country now than ever before. And I mean, at least in our lifetime. And yet, what is the government doing for them? Are they sending billions of dollars to programs

and special infrastructure to where we get these people off the streets, put them in jobs, give them clothing, give them health care, give them all these things. Are we doing that? And that's not a socialist thing to do. That's saying we have a massive issue and we got to fix this issue. Let's actually do something about it. Because it seems. like to me that they care a damn sight more about Ukraine and Israel and whatever else they're involved in than they do about the United States of America. And I think that's the big message. It doesn't matter whether you're on Israel's side, you're on Ukraine side or Russia's side. If you're American, you have to be on America's side first. You have to be. You have to be

on your whoever is next to you. If they're a citizen in this country and they're a contributing member of society, you have to be on your neighbor's side first. I understand if you're a Christian or you're this or that. You got to care about other people. You care about all people. But we also have to understand that we are all neighbors next to each other. We have to care about ourselves first. And your government that you pay taxes to that was established to work for you should be working for you. And they're not. And that's the problem. They are working for other countries. And that is a massive issue. And this is what pisses me off. And I know I'm talking in a phone right now. It sounds like I'm like talking to my I know I'm talking to you guys. And I'm

actually very curious to see how this episode goes because we're doing it on a phone and hopefully it's loud enough to be able to hear so turn your volumes up guys turn them up and i just want to mention too make sure you have some oil for lamps you're talking about like ditty oil no not p ditty oil babe but that might light on fire and then also i did learn another technique too if there is no candles and you don't have candles if you get chrisco oil like the lard You know, the one that, you know, it looks like white and it's not like oil. You stick a little candlestick thing down there. It'll burn for...

A wick. Yeah, the wick. It'll burn for 72 hours. Yeah, you stick a wick in there, it'll burn. So I did buy one of those just in case we run out of candles. But I was prepared with candles, batteries, and mostly flashlights. Yeah, I don't know. But we wanted to update everybody.

Obviously, we have no access to information. and we can't get like a decent episode out to you guys and girls. But we thank you, by the way, so much for Karen and reaching out. There's been so many people that have emailed us and reached out to us on social media and said, where are you guys at? Are you guys okay? How's everything there? How's everything there?

We just want to say thank you so much because it does help. Yes. And it helps just knowing that you guys care and are out there. Just mentally. And listen, I'm sure there's tons of you right now that are listening. that are involved in this. You guys are a part of this. You guys are in this with us.

It's not just us. I don't know how they're listening then. Yeah, we're, no, well, they might be able to. But we're just telling you that we're not making this about us. You know, that's not where we're doing. We're kind of giving you what our experience has been, but we're definitely highlighting that are a lot of people that are very, very much worse off than we are.

I mean, they've lost their homes. They're everything. They're family members, their pets. maybe we'll never be able to rebuild, never be able to have another home. You know, active natures in certain insurance situations do not cover homes or any of that stuff. Oh, yeah. We have many friends that trees have actually fell in their house. They can't even get anyone out there until they get the trees removed to get an estimate. So that means they're going to have to wait for weeks until they can even get anyone out there to look at it.

And in some cases, it's weird because in some cases, acts of nature and certain things, they can skirt and not pay you for it. And, you know, you're kind of left high and dry. So, anyways, I don't know how long this episode's been, maybe almost an hour. I'm not sure. We're going to have to go and now try to figure out how to upload this and publish this. We're going to probably go to Cracker Barrel. We're hungry a little bit. But by the way, Cracker Barrel is actually open.

Cracker Bell has been open and Bojangles was open until two. Yeah. And Chick-fil-A was open now today. And Chick-fil-A. And I think I guess they're all operating on massive generators, but the lines are extremely long. They're having double lines. It's crazy. But that's what I'm saying. It could be far worse, right? There could be nothing open. Everything devastated. And for a couple of days, there was nothing open. There was nothing. And it was kind of scary. But I also have to give props to the school districts around here because they are texting people around the community saying, if you need a hot,

meal we're serving three meals you know at the school between like 10 o'clock and two o'clock so i mean people are really are trying to reach out there's a lot of churches have been open trying to provide hamburgers and hot dogs to people so there are good people in the world but i don't know in my opinion i've seen much more not good people than good people yeah yeah it's weird um you're right and we'll talk about down on another episode um guys once we're able to actually get some internet internet access do some research kind of pull everything together and get you a a thorough episode and i want you guys to make sure that you follow us you uh you push that little notification bell if you're listening to us on spotify wherever you listen to us push the notification bell and especially on x i want you guys to go

follow us on x that is the easiest way we can update people with pictures videos uh you know messages whatever we get out or want to get out x is the best way to reach us and i want to make something very clear once we get out there or sorry once we finally have power and we're able to talk about this further and kind of dig into this the reason why i want you guys to make sure your notifications are on if you go follow us on x if you go to our profile there's a little bell there make sure you press that bell every time we post which is you know we're not going to blow your phone up but when we post you'll get a little notification on your phone that says hey investigator posted this is silent notification and it'll come through, you'll see what we posted.

Same way with Spotify. If you are not a notification person, there's a little bell on our Spotify account that has a bell, post it. When we post something new, you guys will see it. The reason why I want you to be able to do that is because I think after Helene, the media already is already not talking about it nationally. And even algorithms, you know, once we post about this, because I want to get a lot of messages out about this.

So I want to get eyewitnesses, people that have been a part of this. I want to get a lot of stuff on this because this is very important. I have so much more to say besides just kind of what we've seen and kind of experience so far. But there is a much bigger story to this. And I want you guys to be ready to hear it and able to hear it. And if you guys do not enable those notifications, the algorithms will not let you know that that episode is available. And that's why we always have problems. If we have like a two-part series or a three-part series,

we'll get big numbers on the first one and not nearly the numbers on the second or third one. Yeah. And I also wanted to thank Alien Addict and El Dave for, you know, posting that we're safe and okay because a lot of people are asking and we were not able to post anything. So I just wanted to shout them out real quick. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, El Dave, he's a good friend, the show, and Alien Addicts as well. We love those guys.

And thank you guys. I saw that earlier. I tried to respond to that, but we could not do that. We're just, you know, we're here. We're operating. We got some, we got some cards that we're going to play some poker tonight. I got a coloring book. I got a coloring book.

She got a coloring book. We tried to play Monopoly last night. I hate that game. I played it for like 10 minutes, even though I was winning. Yeah, he won and I stayed in jail the whole time. Yeah, well, that's about right. That sounds about right. I said, is this something to be concerning about?

No, but I was, I mean, we played for like 20 minutes and I was winning. I was winning hugely. hugely had all the money. But I was winning and I was like, this sucks. Because you bought all the properties. Yeah, but I was like, this sucks. You like playing this. But it was justice monopoly too.

Oh, God. Which means he was buying like wardrobes and stuff. Yeah, it was stupid. So tonight we're playing Texas holding poker and we're going to use monopoly money. I think that's what we're going to use. Yeah. So that's what we're going to do. But first, we're going to try to go to Cracker Barrel,

see if we can get on their internet to be able to post this. Guys, like I said, there's no, obviously, there's no audio. There's none of that on this episode. So just bear with us. Probably not even going to be a picture. I'll try to post this picture. I'll see if I can get one. But we'll try to update you as soon as we can.

Tomorrow is Tuesday. And we'll see if there's anything major from now to then. I just want to let everybody know again, investigate Earth podcast at protonmel.com is how you can reach us. If you are in Western North Carolina, you have a legit, way for people and our listeners to help, please send us an email there so we can get that message out on our next show because I'm sure that many of you guys will help or would want to help a good cause to help people in this scenario.

But it's just hard for us to know right now and to figure out the information like who, where to donate, how to help, all that stuff. It's just we have limited access to information. Yeah, because I wish we could donate too and help some way, but we don't really know what to do or where to go or how to help. Yeah, right now. So we're just kind of working through everything. But guys, I'm just trying to think if there's anything else that I have to say right now.

I don't think so. I just, what I will say is pray. If you pray, pray for the people that are affected by this. Especially the people that have lost family members. This is terrible. Yeah, and people that have not had access to their family members or have not still. A thousand plus members missing still, family members. Yeah, I mean, I've not talked to my mom, like I said, since Thursday.

And hopefully tomorrow she's going to try to make her way out of the mountains, down to Hilton Head area of South Carolina, to where there actually is power and some access to water. My mom's on a well. They don't have water besides whatever they have in bottles or whatever they were prepared for ahead of time. So, yeah, it's just been very stressful, but just pray for everybody. And whenever this is all over,

have a great episodes coming out we have a bunch of them yeah we got we got episodes that we've recorded already we have another one that we haven't recorded but then the hurricane hit and so we got those episodes coming out as well they're they're great guests you guys will love those and um guys we love you so very much we're so thankful for you as our audience and we cannot wait until this is over and we can resume regularly scheduled programming because by the way it's almost October and we have very, very few days until the election. And as bad as what's going on right now as I think that we're probably going to be facing some more stuff coming up. And I want to get you guys as prepared as possible. And I don't know, this is just what can be up to a lot of things that I

wasn't even thinking about otherwise. And so I have a lot to say about that, but we're not going to do that on the phone tonight. Guys, we love you so much. We're okay. Thank you for reaching out. we're going to release another episode as soon as we can with any new information and we love you and until then guys peace out peace out