No electricity. No food. And there are no functioning roads to safely exit the homes where they are trapped.
These are the conditions some North Carolinians are facing amid the worst flooding caused by Tropical Depression Helene.
Jennifer Replogle, a pregnant mother of two young children, is “completely trapped” in her home above Boone in Tater Hill, North Carolina, 4,000 feet above sea level, where severe flooding from tropical storms is not common.
“We were not prepared for this,” she said via text message on Saturday morning (28). “The roads are gone, completely gone.”
The power has been out since Friday (27), she said. Replogle said they have no food and are running out of water.
The few narrow, winding roads connecting the mountain to Boone are impassable.
“Our basement flooded yesterday. If they don’t get someone for us soon, I really don’t know what to do,” Replogle said.
She is worried about the plumbing and water business she and her husband own. They saw a photo of the company’s flooded parking lot and fear they “lost almost everything.”
Its employees are also stuck at home or with friends, Replogle said.
Watauga County officials have declared a curfew from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., according to a post on the county Emergency Services Facebook page. The post cited “dangerous conditions,” “compromised roads” and “emergency operations underway.”
And the city of Boone issued a rising water warning on Friday, according to the city’s Facebook page.
Helene first hit Florida on Thursday night as a Category 4 hurricane, destroying homes and buildings and cutting power across the Southeast. The storm left at least 62 people dead in five states.
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This content was originally published in Hurricane Helene leaves pregnant woman “completely stranded” in North Carolina on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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