TV to Greenville SC
 

Oldest left at 0730 Saturday. I75-10 to 95. 8 hours 10 minutes. Would have been less but sat 40 minutes to clear accident on 95. No issues with roads until 30 minutes outside of Greenville.

Many roads are still blocked by down trees, bright spot, too many to count DTE(MI) Duke, and Seco trucks working non stop.
FEMA inspectors started late Wednesday, and will be in his neighborhood Sunday. Power possibly Monday, or sooner according to the DTE guy, working in their yard, cell reception is very sketchy, bottle water only. Some businesses are running generators, one gas station open.

They were surprised on the progress, considering how bad it was when they left. It looks like an old fashioned logging community.

I have family in Greenville (N. Greenville, in the mountains). It’s brutal up there and many people still have no power.

Our son is at the base of mountain about 6 miles near Furman U. They headed back on Saturday, no power, but FEMA was coming to their neighborhood, so they wanted to be there. FEMA entered on Monday but most roads were impassable, and residents with ATVs were helping with food and water. Problem is the mountain homes are going to take time.
Sunday morning notice a DTE guy in their backyard working. He took a cold Coke, knowing worker was from Detroit area. Info was power should be restored in 12-24. It came on midnight Sunday, but has been on/off as more are added to the grid.

Their cell towers are down, as of today. Sadly the town had 8 generators running for certain things, and they were all stolen. Their main road into their area is still closed from down trees, a new sinkhole mid road, appeared Monday, so will be awhile. They have an old narrow logging road open, not ideal but better than no roads at all.

Ha, that’s not terribly far from my family then.

It is a mess up there for sure. The last member of my family to get power restored was on Monday mid-day. Supplies are still hard to come by and they’ll be cutting trees and repairing roads for years.