"Volunteers in Asheville gathered on Wednesday before going out to help find people who have been unreachable because of phone and internet outages. They took along boxes of drinking water and instructions to return in person with their results.
Even notifying relatives of people who died in the storm has been difficult.
'That has been our challenge, quite honestly, is no cell service, no way to reach out to next of kin,' said Avril Pinder, an official in Buncombe County where at least 61 people have died. 'We have a confirmed body count, but we don’t have identifications on everyone or next-of-kin notifications.'"
~ ERIK VERDUZCO, JEFF AMY and JOHN SEEWER
"Southerners stay in touch the old-fashioned way after Helene cuts roads, power, phones"
https://apnews.com/article/helene-asheville-north-carolina-3f812f70c4d2649e2198362e9ae42b06
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