Just recently, Hurricane Helene had struck several states ( including mine, which is South Carolina ) and caused major damage that have taken over 200 lives.
Most of the deaths are from the mountains.
The day after Hurricane Helene left, I had gotten a text from the siblings of my 2 online best friends of 4 and 5 years. Both of the best friends being a 21 year old woman and a 24 year old man.
They lived in Chimney Rock, North Carolina.
I had planned to go up to Jackson County, North Carolina, a week after my 22nd birthday, but I had a dream about a disaster hitting several states and it was a warning.
I heard the news and I immediately texted my first internet best friend Haley and told her to get out of Florida and she and her soon-to-be husband, and they did. She and her partner went back to her house in Georgia ( USA ) and rode out the storm. She and her partner are okay.
Western North Carolina is destroyed. I'm talking about the mountains.
Lake Lure and Chimney Rock are gone. I last went to those places when I was 12. I have a pink and white jacket with the worts "Lake Lure" on the front of it.