i've been working disaster relief (read: getting paid to guard empty parking lots and banking ot to sleep) in asheville the past few weeks. they've brought in refrigerated trailers and all remains not immediately id'd from this are being brought to asheville. a death isn't declared officially until an id was made. there were about 1300 bodies there last weekend when i went home according to some of the asheville pd guys. i think they've revised the numbers up but i think the "official" death count was only around 300 last wednesday. so mostly they're just doing this in the dumbest way possible. at this point recovery of bodies has become extremely difficult, as bodies that are left are trapped under so much debris, or lodged in junk in rivers or underwater, that they're becoming harder to recover without heavy equipment, and decomp is extreme now too. they'll be finding bones all over western nc for years, no telling how many murders went on while this was happening.
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