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Remember WCU in Hurricane Helene's Aftermath !!!

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billingsgriz

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Western North Carolina was pounded in some areas by up to 30 inches of rain from the remnants of Hurricane Helene, the university has canceled classes through this Friday, Oct. 4th, the devastation has been "biblical" in areas of Western North Carolina, East Tennesse as flooding has been intense, there are already well over 100 deaths from the Big Bend in Florida, up through Georgia, and into North Carolina and Tennessee's Appalachian Mountains' Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains, students are trapped in Cullowee as Gov. Roy Cooper and FEMA have asked students to stay put on campus or in town due to interstate outages, and the school is feeding students a couple of meals a day until this state of emergency ends

I know a lot of GRIZ fans met some WCU fans and struck up friendships, some of which will last a lifetime. ( I was stuck working in Billings and couldn't go to the game.)

Our new friends at WCU could use our prayers, maybe a phone call, Facebook or email, and if you so desire, maybe a donation to a reputable charity like the Anerucan Red Cross. The recovery from this disaster will take months if not years.

WCU is supposed to host Wofford on this Saturday, Oct. 5--still unclear if the game will be played given all of the area destruction !!!.
 
The Wofford ( 2-2)-WCU (1-3) football game as of now is still on for this Saturday, Oct. 5 @ 2:30 PM ET@ E. J. Whitmire Stadium in Cullowhee, NC, home of the WCU Catamounts in Western North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains.

Over 160 Americans were killed in Hurricane Helene in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina. Tennessee, and Virginia. North Carolina's death toll in Western North Carolina is 70 souls and will almost certainly and unfortunately rise higher. Hurricane Helene is the deadliest hurricane to strike the US since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. And given the sheer scope of the devastation, The American Red Cross has set up an account specifically for Hurricane Helene.

Hopefully, WCU and Wofford fans and players from neighboring South Carolina can forget about the hurricane and misery for 3 hours and have some fun !!!
 
The death toll in NC is now unfortunately up to 73, 200 Americans killed by Helene in the six states, with Asheville and Buncombe County north of Cullowhee where WCU is located, suffering 61 of those deaths in NC. Buncombe County is also home of Boone, the home of our old playoff foe Appalachian State.

And tragically, there are a lot of people still missing, especially in the Appalachians of NC. Conditions are so bad that one NC hospital, totally out of water and isolated by all of the interstate and highway destruction, dug it's own well so the patients and staff would have water.
 
The number of deaths is well over 500. Not being reported but a relative in law enforcement said they ran out of body bags. and haven,t even scratched the surface of all the people still missing.
 
According to NBC News, the death toll in NC is now up to 98, President Biden who is seeing the destruction for himself in NC and Georgia has ordered 1,000 active duty US Army soldiers--probably from Fort Bragg, NC--to assist the North Carolina National Guard in relief efforts in Western NC, and Georgia, which has suffered 33 deaths so far, is facing not only huge destruction from Helene but also the loss of almost all of its planted cotton crop as well as a lot of its pecan orchards, according to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.

I really hope you're wrong about 500 dead Americans but the death toll could easily hit that number--right now, according to NBC, there are only 19 deaths in Florida, and since Florida's Big Bend caught Helene's 140 mile an hour winds and 15 foot storm surge in an area barely above sea level, that number could go a lot higher--hope I'm wrong !!!
 
billingsgriz said:
According to NBC News, the death toll in NC is now up to 98, President Biden who is seeing the destruction for himself in NC and Georgia has ordered 1,000 active duty US Army soldiers--probably from Fort Bragg, NC--to assist the North Carolina National Guard in relief efforts in Western NC, and Georgia, which has suffered 33 deaths so far, is facing not only huge destruction from Helene but also the loss of almost all of its planted cotton crop as well as a lot of its pecan orchards, according to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.

I really hope you're wrong about 500 dead Americans but the death toll could easily hit that number--right now, according to NBC, there are only 19 deaths in Florida, and since Florida's Big Bend caught Helene's 140 mile an hour winds and 15 foot storm surge in an area barely above sea level, that number could go a lot higher--hope I'm wrong !!!
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yea don't believe NBC, CBS, ABC etc....they will downplay it or under report it.
 
I have first hand information from someone on the ground and I have been wondering all afternoon why news outlets are not relaying the same information. There isn't one online news source that is reporting the stuff I have been hearing from my relative. I am very sure he wouldn't say anything that was not 100% true, but I would love it if he's wrong and the number is not as high as what he expressed to me.
 
Not sure if this the appropriate place to put this, but for those of you old enough to have attended a game in either Boone, NC or Knoxville, TN, those people are in need right now.

In both places the fans were very gracious. Both fan bases were awed and curious what Montana was like. We all remember the game with Ashanti Edwards.

Either way, good people, help where you can.
 
Total BS, Armonte--Gov. Brian Kemp, R-Georgia, said FEMA is doing a great job providing relief for Georgia, and anytime he needs to talk to Pres. Biden about Helene, he calls him--he has the President's direct phone number because Pres. Biden gave it to him !!!

The relief effort is and should be very bipartisan because when a Helene happens, we are all Americans first before we're Democrats and Republicans !!!
 
billingsgriz said:
The Wofford ( 2-2)-WCU (1-3) football game as of now is still on for this Saturday, Oct. 5 @ 2:30 PM ET@ E. J. Whitmire Stadium in Cullowhee, NC, home of the WCU Catamounts in Western North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains.

Over 160 Americans were killed in Hurricane Helene in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina. Tennessee, and Virginia. North Carolina's death toll in Western North Carolina is 70 souls and will almost certainly and unfortunately rise higher. Hurricane Helene is the deadliest hurricane to strike the US since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. And given the sheer scope of the devastation, The American Red Cross has set up an account specifically for Hurricane Helene.

Hopefully, WCU and Wofford fans and players from neighboring South Carolina can forget about the hurricane and misery for 3 hours and have some fun !!!
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The game was played and WCU won in front of zero fans.

 
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