A couple inches? NOAA was forcasting record flooding days before the storm. Local news in the Triangle were showing pictures from the 1916 Asheville flood and s

A couple inches? NOAA was forcasting record flooding days before the storm. Local news in the Triangle were showing pictures from the 1916 Asheville flood and saying this storm was going to be worse. There were mandatory evacuation orders all over. The severity of the situation leading up to the storm wasn't lost on me. We need to understand how people didn't get the message, or didn't believe it if they did get it, or got it and believed it but didn't have an option to leave. Those people didn't have to get stranded. A friend has a kid in a school in Boone. The school didn't officially close until the storm was almost over them. My friends kid wasn't going to leave because they didn't want to miss a test. My friend pulled their kid out of their apartment in the middle of the night as the flood waters started rising. My friend knew what was happening, but the school officials didn't? That kind of ignorance is excredible dangerous.