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The NC United Way will direct your money to the organizations that can be most useful in the situation as well: https://www.unitedwaync.org/ - might be the easiest if you are like me and get bogged down in figuring out the best way to give.

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I want to know when my father, at a retirement community in Black Mountain, will be able to get water to drink. Yesterday he bought a Gatorade at the commissary and nursed it all day. Other than 3 liters of tonic water and some non-alcoholic beer, he has no water and the facility isn't able to offer him any. I'm assuming this means the roads in and out of the facility are closed (the Swannanoa River flooded just nearby). I can't get anyone official at the community to return my calls -- phone lines might be down. Is the National Guard on their way with water trucks? I'm concerned about the 400 or so elderly people there who have nothing to drink. I would drive up from Georgia with cases of water but I-40 is closed and I don't know if back roads are open. He just texted me saying as a last resort he could drink the water from the toilet tank, but he's been reserving that for the cat.

I realize there are many people in much worse shape than Dad, but I just wish I could get some information and know help is on the way...

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