NC Helene Disaster News from Governor Cooper, President Biden

[Bo Zarts]

1. Meanwhile in SC .. crickets.

My county, Greenville County, has the highest rate of residential power outages of any county in the five states most impacted by hurricane Helene (Florida, Georgia, SC, NC, and Tennessee): 100%.

I tried to drive up to my studio at Caesar’s Head mountain yesterday. It was a hellscape. US-276 up the mountain is solid blowdown with no possibility of being cleared the last eight miles to the NC/SC state line, according to the three volunteers (with ONE chainsaw) who I encountered at the tangle of fallen trees four miles below my studio, for at least a week, and probably two.

I’ll be posting pics as soon as I can get my computer charged. And more comments about the situation.

Bo