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My name is Cassandra. I live in a little town called Spruce Pine, North Carolina that was directly affected by Hurricane Helene

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Anybody in their right mind thinking that outside

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People should not be speaking on what the government has done or is not doing to our area is

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insanity to me

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As someone who is here at ground zero in Mitchell County, North Carolina

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It is going to take you

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You as the creators on this app to speak up to get us help here

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Because I will tell you our government is not doing a damn thing

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for us

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Get here. We need you. We need people experienced in hiking

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There's only a few ways to these people. It is to put horseback or helicopter

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Dirt box ATV's side by side if you have them it can get to East Tennessee or Western North Carolina

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We need you do not listen to the news when they tell you that they don't want you. They don't need you

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I'm telling you I am here. I live here. I have been already. I'm telling you. We need you

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We want you here

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Shit

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My house washed away

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I'm a cat out of two geckos

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Almost at all

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People's lives could have been saved and the blood is going to be on the hands of those that

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Did not allow that person who could go help to go help

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They were told they couldn't do what they were doing because it was not being federal controlled or something along those lines

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I want to show you what swan and nova looks like right now at least the area that we're in

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You can see there is still quite a bit of debris right there behind me and it just goes for miles. I mean