Former FOX 10 reporter living in South Carolina among Helene evacuees

Former FOX 10 Reporter Alexa Knowles and her husband Nathaniel made the decision to evacuate to her mom’s house in Atlanta with their newborn daughter.

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Well I can tell you this everybody needs to pray that we don't have another system because North Carolina Western North Carolina that I'm closer to and the towns now that are underwater and we still have search and rescue going on day 5 if we get hit with another storm no matter how it could be a one or two it is going to be widespread catastrophe even more so than now I can't even wrap my head around it because we have complete towns that are completely gone. I don't think people really understand that they are still trying to figure out if there are other living people to even get them down from the mountains it's so treacherous that they can't even get the First Responders are having a hard time search and rescue getting of the mountains like up on Black Mountain there's people up there that have not even been looked to yet because they can't get up the mountain and it's just horrific and then you're talking about Ashe County witches over near Wilkesboro. We just just now day 4 yesterday got a shipment of water finally dropped in and food and some supplies for people that were in dire need they had nothing but they were cut off from everything there wasn't even a road out that you had to go in and out by helicopter. I don't think people are realizing how dire it is there can absolutely if we get hit with another one another bad storm even with all the mudslides and stuff happening even now there would be absolutely nothing left in my opinion and you have all these people that are traumatized that are down at the bottom of the mountain but they are in places that they can't get them out to and the ones that they can they can't do it very fast because you're having to put a helicopter down in there and you have to be careful about sugar in another mudslide and then taking out the people that are there alive so I just it's horrible and honestly we should have had more help the federal government should have sent someone in right away is catastrophic is all this is and FEMA just got involved yesterday or we are finally able to get Biden to sign the paper day before yesterday I think it was and supposedly more helps on the way but you're talking about day 5 and the people that are there have been doing around the clock we're not in the position of even thinking about price for restoring or you know anything it's not even to the cleanup phase it's trying to get lives out and hopefully be able to account for more because we are still hundreds of people that they can't find according to the calls that have called in somebody with all the massive mudslides it is my fear that mini probably got washed down to the river