9.30.24 Jon Bailiff Asheville Update
He May Have a Way Out, Tuesday, by Air
We have a tentative commercial flight to fly Jon out of Asheville to Washington DC, his original destination, where his family awaits with love!
Hereās a brief audio message from Jon today. Heās referring to working with his partner, Haley McBride at the Holiday Inn, to get food and fuel and water and Starlink, for the hotel staff and first responders.
His sister, brother, and brother-in-law are all there. LOVE to Megan, Dan, and Marcellus. Send me photos of yāall when he arrives!
Jonās flight outta Asheville is scheduled for Tuesday, tomorrow morning.
I only say tentative because everything in Asheville is on the ātemporal planeā ā Mother Nature is calling the shots.
However, the workers at American Airlines are moving heaven and earth to run flights out of the Asheville Henderson airport.
If you have people in Asheville who want to get out, grab your credit card if you have one, and bookāem, Dano!
https://www.americanairlines.ie/
Our New Pals, Jonās best friends, the crew at the Holiday Inn that has been transformed into Rescue Central.
Pack your patience, as they say.
Tune into the wonderful Asheville 24/7 community news radio, 99.9. I listen to them all day, they are the ONLY place to find out whatās really going on, minute to minute.
Nothing is āeasyā or reliable right now, but possibilities are emerging. Keep trying, even if one road closes, if one flight cancelled, if thereās one more blackoutā just keep on trying. Donāt give up. Every day people are helping each other.
Iāve been trying all morning to upload a video onto Substack, and when that happens, youāll see an update right here. Geez, technology is failing us, eh?
Jon will also post more audio, video, and photos himself when he has wifi.
Man oh man.
As always, thereās a bigger picture here, and you know weāll be talking about it in the days to come. Iām singing this song:
RESOURCES
American Airlines has flights out of Asheville Airport.
https://www.aa.com/homePage.do
99.9 āKISS Country Radioā 24/7 local community run news station
Studio Line: 828-240-5477 ā priority for local callers or people with help for locals.
Today, Jon is helping to bring a Starlink connection to the Holiday Inn where heās been working.
Jonās Emergency Facebook Support Group
For Family and Friends. Iāll always post the major updates here, on Jonās Stack.
(Note: FB is throttling weather and hurricane news, so do not rely on them as your news source. And no, Iām not kidding).
Twitter āAshevilleā
Next to the radio station above, Twitter has best breaking news on Asheville and flood areas. If you āfollowā me, https://x.com/susiebright, youāll see LOADS of relevant news, and then you can figure it out from there. Yes, we know āXā is absurd, but for some reason, itās kinda working, if you know where to look, for breaking news. Follow reliable sources. Figure it out.
Fuck Facebook. They are throttling the weather news. You cannot reliably post or find anything, except for āprivate groupsā like the one I started. Even some of those are being censored and āpaused.ā My god. Thatās why Iāll keep using Stack for the big updates.
Fuck MSM headlines and corporate news decisions. Just a complete fail on climate change and Hurricane Helene. COMPLETE FAIL.
Blue Ridge Holiday Inn Asheville East
This is where Jonās been staying and working all this time, since the storm.
1450 Tunnel Road East, Asheville, NC 28805, General Manager, Haley McBride, Jonās hero and BFF!
Jessie Cudney, Jonās driving companion from Madison, WI, has left with a Holiday Inn manager in his truck to drive to Raleigh, and then to her destination. She left this morning. Good luck, Jessie, and we have high hopes!
Glad to hear this.
We love you toooooooo!!!!