AP Archive | After Helene, thousands without water struggle to find enough and wait @APArchive | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
(4 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Asheville, North Carolina – 3 October 2024
1. Tight of drinking water being poured into bucket
2. Wide of city employee filling water for Travis and Marilyn Edwards
3. Medium of city employee capping a water jug
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Candler, North Carolina – 3 October 2024
++PARTIALLY COVERED++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Travis Edwards, resident:
“It’s very interesting kind of going back to having nothing available and then trying to figure out how to be resourceful for what you had to, I guess, survive.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Asheville, North Carolina – 3 October 2024
5. Edwards family walking back to car carrying water jugs
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Candler, North Carolina – 3 October 2024
6. Edwards family unloading water from car
++COVERED++
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Travis Edwards, resident:
“We lost all of our water, so we went to very rationed water.”
8. Walking up front steps
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Travis Edwards, resident:
“We’re dealing with a lot of having to go to water stations and pick up water.”
10. Walking into kitchen with water
11. Various of Travis Edwards washing dishes
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Travis Edwards, resident:
“We’ll take potable water and we’ll wash dishes with it or wash our hands, wash our face and our bodies and then collect all of that into a bucket as grey water and then we’ll take that and we’ll use that for flushing the toilets and stuff like that.”
13. Various of Travis Edwards taking captured dish water and dumping into bucket
14. Travis Edwards carrying bucket to bathroom
15. Travis Edwards dumping bucket of captured water into toilet
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Travis Edwards, resident:
“It’s been interesting to kind of see the impact that this had on my life, my family’s life, my kids' lives.”
17. Marilyn Edwards in bathroom preparing to bathe
UPSOUND: By the tub? Yeah. That one’s clean. Sweet. Yeah, just use the scooper jabby next to it.
18. Medium of Marilyn Edwards scooping water from bucket and taking off shirt
++COVERED+
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Travis Edwards, resident:
“They’re not in school and won’t be for a good while, and just how intense it is to sort of have your normal day to day operations be completely stopped and you have to kind of figure out how you deal with that change.”
20. Wide of Marilyn washing face
21. Medium of Marilyn drying off
STORYLINE:
A week after Hurricane Helene brought devastation to western North Carolina, a shiny stainless steel tanker truck in downtown Asheville attracted residents carrying 5-gallon containers, milk jugs and buckets to fill with what has become a desperately scare resource — drinking water.
Flooding tore through the city’s water system, destroying so much infrastructure that officials said repairs could take weeks. To make do, Travis Edwards arrived Wednesday with his 17-year-old Marilyn, who each left carrying several jugs and plastics bags of water.
“It’s very interesting kind of going back to having nothing available and then trying to figure out how to be resourceful for what you had to survive,” Edwards said. They’ve been without any water, not even for bathing or flushing toilets, for nearly a week.
It also damaged water utilities so severely and over such a wide inland area that one federal official said the toll “could be considered unprecedented.” As of Thursday, about 136,000 people in the Southeast were served by a nonoperational water provider and more than 1.8 million were living under a boil water advisory, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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(4 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Asheville, North Carolina – 3 October 2024
1. Tight of drinking water being poured into bucket
2. Wide of city employee filling water for Travis and Marilyn Edwards
3. Medium of city employee capping a water jug
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Candler, North Carolina – 3 October 2024
++PARTIALLY COVERED++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Travis Edwards, resident:
“It’s very interesting kind of going back to having nothing available and then trying to figure out how to be resourceful for what you had to, I guess, survive.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Asheville, North Carolina – 3 October 2024
5. Edwards family walking back to car carrying water jugs
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Candler, North Carolina – 3 October 2024
6. Edwards family unloading water from car
++COVERED++
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Travis Edwards, resident:
“We lost all of our water, so we went to very rationed water.”
8. Walking up front steps
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Travis Edwards, resident:
“We’re dealing with a lot of having to go to water stations and pick up water.”
10. Walking into kitchen with water
11. Various of Travis Edwards washing dishes
++COVERED++
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Travis Edwards, resident:
“We’ll take potable water and we’ll wash dishes with it or wash our hands, wash our face and our bodies and then collect all of that into a bucket as grey water and then we’ll take that and we’ll use that for flushing the toilets and stuff like that.”
13. Various of Travis Edwards taking captured dish water and dumping into bucket
14. Travis Edwards carrying bucket to bathroom
15. Travis Edwards dumping bucket of captured water into toilet
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Travis Edwards, resident:
“It’s been interesting to kind of see the impact that this had on my life, my family’s life, my kids' lives.”
17. Marilyn Edwards in bathroom preparing to bathe
UPSOUND: By the tub? Yeah. That one’s clean. Sweet. Yeah, just use the scooper jabby next to it.
18. Medium of Marilyn Edwards scooping water from bucket and taking off shirt
++COVERED+
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Travis Edwards, resident:
“They’re not in school and won’t be for a good while, and just how intense it is to sort of have your normal day to day operations be completely stopped and you have to kind of figure out how you deal with that change.”
20. Wide of Marilyn washing face
21. Medium of Marilyn drying off
STORYLINE:
A week after Hurricane Helene brought devastation to western North Carolina, a shiny stainless steel tanker truck in downtown Asheville attracted residents carrying 5-gallon containers, milk jugs and buckets to fill with what has become a desperately scare resource — drinking water.
Flooding tore through the city’s water system, destroying so much infrastructure that officials said repairs could take weeks. To make do, Travis Edwards arrived Wednesday with his 17-year-old Marilyn, who each left carrying several jugs and plastics bags of water.
“It’s very interesting kind of going back to having nothing available and then trying to figure out how to be resourceful for what you had to survive,” Edwards said. They’ve been without any water, not even for bathing or flushing toilets, for nearly a week.
It also damaged water utilities so severely and over such a wide inland area that one federal official said the toll “could be considered unprecedented.” As of Thursday, about 136,000 people in the Southeast were served by a nonoperational water provider and more than 1.8 million were living under a boil water advisory, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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