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October 2, 2024 16 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You see some such.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Dashy with DJ forourn It's Sat Morning Sustin's number one
for hip hop jam in ninety four or five. It's
not often that we have somebody in the studio who's
also on our TV at the same time. This is
a certain like literally Kayle's face is on our TV

(00:24):
and she's physically in studio as well. We definitely talked
about Hurricane Helen last week as I had checked in
with my cousin who lives in Florida to make sure
that you know, he was okay and the family that
I have done there was okay. I was saying that
it's kind of like out of sight, out of mind.
We're hearing about this devastation, but then everybody here in

(00:45):
mass is just going about their regular day, right. We
don't know what it's like to be hit by a hurricane.
That's not the life we live. I mean, we have
really bad snowstorms and things like that. But I think
a lot of times, when you see how horrible it
can be for other people in other states, you'll have
that moment where you're like, damn, that's so so sad,
and then you move on with your day. So Hurricane
Helene death toll is that one's sixty and rising in

(01:09):
multiple states including Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.
But over six hundred people are still stranded and or missing.
You're probably thinking yourself, one sixty. That's a crazy death toll.
The reason being no preparation. And Kayla will get into
that a little bit. Severe weather conditions. Obviously there was flooding.

(01:29):
There was like crazy tornado type activity. Fatalities included some
people died from trees falling onto them into their home.
Power outages. The storm left over two million people without power,
complicating you know, any sort of response and rescue for
a lot of people. This story is so crazy. So

(01:50):
Kayla again joins us in studio. Her story has been
going viral all over the news. Kayla is getting married
on December seventh, her and ten of her besties. There
was eleven in total, right, there's eleven of you girls.
You decided to go to Asheville, North Carolina for your bachelorette.
We have to start out with the first thing. And
I know you're getting comments about this. What going on

(02:12):
the plane were you learning about weather? Because anybody and
I know you're not immune to this. Anybody that goes
on a trip, you check the weather. Yeah. Second, leading
up right, you're like, oh, it looks like it's going
to rain on Saturday. There's a thirty percent chance. I
know you looked, so what were you learning? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Absolutely, so we looked.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
We talked to our airbnb hosts and all we had
heard was that it was going to be heavy rain
and that was Thursday a little bit and then Friday.
So none of our vendors for any of the events
that we had canceled on us, they all said, Oh,
we can just do stuff under a tapestry in the rain.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
It's no big deal, right. Nobody was like, hey, you
might want to rethink coming. No one said that, not
a single person, not a single because she's getting comments
online like what are you stupid? Why would you go? Yeah,
because you know why, because you're starting to trend on
the internet and that's going to happen. But listen, any
I mean guys to do it, but females we always
do it because we're we have to prepare and pack outfits.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Absolutely no, we checked a thousand times. We were talked
to so many different people there, and the people up there,
had no idea it was going to be this bad. Yashville,
like downtown, had no idea the flooding would be that bad.
And in the mountains, they typically tell you to flee
to the mountains when there's gonna be flooding, right, But
there were so many trees down the mountains were hit
with a supercell tornado, which that's not being broadcasted a lot. Yeah,

(03:24):
that's why it was so so bad, and that nobody
can predict that.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Well, let's start at the beginning. You land in North Carolina,
you head up this mountain. How long in a car
did it take you to get up to the mountain
to the AIRBNBA honestly.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Only about an hour total, if even that, maybe like
forty five minutes to an hour, But that's.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Important for one trying to walk down. It's oh so
an hour in a car to get up this mountain
to your airbnb, which by the way, was beautiful pre storm. Yes,
Thursday night is the first night you guys are there.
You hang in, you have a chef come to the house,
he cooks for you. Guys. You're going to bed Thursday
night with what happening outside.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
So when we went to bed. Nothing at that time,
like there might have been a little bit of drizzling.
And then it was in the middle of the night
the storm really kicked up. Some of the girls were.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Waking up hearing it.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
And then at six in the morning, I was still asleep,
but some of my friends had gathered in the living
room and we just hear a huge crash and that was.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Like a tree coming through the house. And so that's
when we knew it was bad.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
I was like half asleep, trying to ignore like the
trees like hitting the house right, and then I realized
how bad it was.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, I like actually got up.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
So I think the timeline of this whole story is
so crazy. So now we're Friday morning, there's a tree
inside of your airbnb. You guys are like, what's going on?
But no one's phones are working.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
So at that point, actually early on in the storm,
we did have a little bit of service for like
a couple of hours, so we were able to tell
our families, oh, there's a bad storm. We lost power,
but we didn't know the extent of it. At that point.
We thought, oh, maybe we'll get it back tomorrow. Like
nothing crazy, Okay. Eleven thirty am, i'd say our phones
went dead. And then from there that's when it got

(04:57):
really scary. The storm ended about three pm and we
went outside to kind of a spry damage yes on Friday,
and that's.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
When we realized we were screwed.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Like there were trees down everywhere blocking the huge like
nine mile highway. We came up, there's a whole other
side of the highway. We hadn't even explored. It was
just both ways. All you could see is trees down,
like no street.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
And I think another important part is is that you know,
game plan wise for the weekend, most of your meals
were scheduled to be out at these restaurants. You're on
your bachelorette party, so food wise, you guys didn't have
a lot inside the house.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, we had nothing. We ended up having to split
like a box of noodles. We would be have like
I had like one day, I had like three pieces
of bacon and like three leaves of romaine lettuce because
there's so many of us and we had.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
There was eleven.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, it was awful.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
So by Friday, which is horrible, we were out of
water and that's when we were like, oh my god,
what are we gonna do? Yeah, because we have no
water and we're not going to survive without water. At
least with food, we could go a few weeks.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, So you go out Friday night or Friday afternoon,
you see how bad it is. You're like waited out
a little bit. Now you're what, it's Saturday, and you are, you,
as anybody, starting to get panicky, like, what the heck,
how are we going to get home?

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Incredibly, Like, there were so many emotions. I think all
of us kind of took our turns having our breakdowns
and wrong.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
But and fun fact, your sister in law was there,
whose weddings in like a week. Yes, so I felt
so bad. She's like, I'm not even gonna make my wedding.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
And she was a trooper because she was actually one
of the people who found us water. So she hiked
like twenty minutes up with two of my other good friends.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
The hell. She's a survivalist. She is I know about those,
my husband watches them on YouTube. She is a sealthy survivalist.
She's a sealthy native. She's actually going Jersey originally, but
she lives in sealthy and my husband really married the
wrong one. He would he would have been out there
like like hammering in a piece of wood into a
tree and like like drinking the sap. So she hikes

(06:55):
and gets the whole crew water.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Oh yes, par and two and my other friends did
and they it was actually at an elderly person's house
and they like knocked on the door and they were like,
we are in an ha, so we still have running
water in this part of the community. It was about
twenty minutes away, and they're like, so you can use
our hose and you can just come back and fill
up like pots, pans, cups, whatever you have, like whenever
you need it. So I ended up drinking hose water,

(07:18):
which fine, yeah, and something enough.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, so let's talk about the angel sent from above.
We're to Sunday now, is it Sunday when he came
an angel? So actually Saturday night we heard a man's
voice and this was not the same man. So someone
had hiked the mountain calling down to us basically hello hello.
So we all ran outside hearing like someone's voice and

(07:41):
he was like, you guys are going to be trapped
here for weeks if you don't HiPE down the mountain. Yeah,
and he was like, you are biblically screwed. I guess
I should say, yeah, if you don't leave, like there's
no way you're gonna get down here. Yeah, And so
he was like, I recommend taking what you can and
hiking down this way of the mountain until you find someone,

(08:02):
because there were people cutting down trees, so like basically
until we could get to.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Where they're at, we weren't going to get rescued.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
So that person that kind of gave me the advice
is not the man that hiked you all the way down.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
And I don't even know that. So I'm so thankful
for this man. He's a mystery man. We have no
idea who he is. Yeah, never got his name. He
was like running around frantically trying to like warn everybody,
like without him also like telling us like where to go,
what to do, it would have been pretty bad. So
he was like the first hero amongst it. And then
we hiked the three hours down and we met a

(08:35):
retired firefighter, Terrelle James. He goes by TJ. And he
was so kind put us all in the back of
his Dodge truck and drove us into town to like
a safety zone at Low's.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Where they were giving out card.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Now this is like, I mean seriously, life or death
in a sense of you know, you guys had no food,
Yeah you were how were you going to serve? And
now I keep thinking about that elderly woman who gave
you would or who's probably still up in the mountains.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
She is still up in the mountains. We have gotten updates,
We're in touch with people up there. They've been conting
us through like satellite texting. You can like if you
have the new iOS update, you can put your phone
up to the sun and send text that way. Oh gosh,
I didn't have so now I have it. Yeah, And
the wife is sick, so she's stuck up there, sick, elderly.
And they even gave us some non perishable food that

(09:28):
they had, so like, these people were so kind that
they had limited resources but were still sharing us knowing.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
That we had none.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
And for anybody who's listening, you, I can I could
tell the second I met you that you going viral
and you being on the news is like the last
thing you care about. You really only told your story
because you're worried about this woman and all the other
people in the mountain because you when you guys were
hiking down, you passed people that are stuck. Absolutely, there's
so many of them because stuck because they live there, guys,

(09:56):
not because they weren't about try writing. They lived there,
so that's going to be their life for weeks, for months,
That's what I mean.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
There's a couple we met, a couple, Martin and Suzanne,
who there's trees.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
All over their house.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
They have two dogs and they can't get down the
mountain with the two dogs. Of course, the elderly people
is just way too physically taxing.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
There's a lot of people with.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
Babies and kids that live on that mountain that they
can't take their kids down that way. It's just way
too much. There's so much poison, ivy, so much wreckage.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah, it's just impossible.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
And if you guys are thinking to yourself, like what
would it look like to hike down a mountain for
three hours? First off, I think this is important too.
The clothes that you guys packed were for a bachelorette party. Guys,
they didn't pack like, hey, we're going to be hiking
down a three hour hike down a mountain. One of
your friends is in the hospital because she was stung
by multiple bees. Her leg is completely swollen. There was

(10:45):
poison ivy out there, rocks. I'm sure you slipped. I'm
sure people were falling. They had no food in them,
all water, right, you know, you got to walk down
three hours down the mountain. That's crazy.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
We were so hungry and so thirsty. Honestly, I think
our anxiety helped with the hunger a little bit. Yeah,
Like I think, just like survivalist mode. But we only
had one bottle of water each and it was so
taxing and like to only take one little sip every break.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, this is horrible.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, but you just have such motivation to get down here.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah we had.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yeah, you're like, we're doing it. There was no other way.
We were just not staying up there.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
And I just can't imagine the people who literally have
to stay up there because they live there.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Those are their houses.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
This was Sunday that you get to the lows, to
the safety zone. When did you get back to Boston.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
So late Sunday night?

Speaker 3 (11:29):
Around eleven eleven thirty pm, which is a miracle. I
did not think, and I don't think anyone thought we'd
get home that quick. But we had so many kind
people who were like, well, I'll give you a ride
to this joint and then this person can pick you
up and they'll drive you three hours to Charlotte and
just strangers.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
But we're like, you're like in care. Yeah, I'm like,
I don't care, Take me please. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
So obviously the whole point of this conversation is to
kind of help and bring attention to what's still going
on at North Carolina and the people that are still
there that literally saved your life.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
How you guys have done it a lot, even in
the few days. You sent two helicopters out to North Carolina. Yes,
there's two helicopters that went to the area. So we
were specifically in the Elk Mountain Preserve area and Elk
Trail was one of those big communities that is up
there that has such a wide range of people and
they're all stuck there. So we sent a helicopter with

(12:20):
some food and thankfully, at first they weren't able to land,
but they were able to air drop, So that's good at.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
Least for now to tie them over. But I mean,
no one wants to be stuck up there. They have
no service they have nothing. They don't have They're cooking
on their fire. We thankfully had a gas stove, so
that helped a lot of them don't so they're cooking
their meals over like firewood outside.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
So if people are listening and they want to try
to help and help you guys, send out more resources
and helicopter and stuff.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
How do they do that?

Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yes, so we started to go fund me last night.
It's called Support Families Stranded on Ashville Mountain Side. You
can find it directly on my Facebook page. I did
make the post public just Donnelly.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
And you know what, when we post a clip from this,
Santi can put it in the Captain too for people
to be able to go to. And then that's an
easy way for people to find that on our Instagram
at Ashley and they am two e's on the Ashley.
I said this to you earlier and I'll say it again, TJ.
Anybody that helped you down the mountain better be at
your wedding on December seventh. You're inviting everybody.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
He is family.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
I literally have family members like reaching out to him.
You always have a seat at our table, You always have.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
A home in Boston.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yes, and he the craziest thing is too, like he's
a volunteer, just cutting down these trees, trying to help people.
And when he left Lows, he hands us a lot
of like a bunch of one hundred dollar bills and
we're like absolutely not like you just saved us. Ye're
trying to pay him, Like yeah you and we didn't
take it.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
I'm likej the angel.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
An angel, like a absolute godsense. Yeah, and he's the
one who is connecting me with resources that are local
to that area specifically. There are so many funds, which
is amazing for all the areas, but I think this
area is a little bit neglected.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah, so we're trying to get local, really really local resources.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yeah, what was one I'll I have like one or
two more quids, But what was one moment that really
sticks out to you where you like had a thought
in your head like we we might not be I
might not make my December seventh might not saying that
you were to lose your life, but just that you
don't know how long you're gonna be stuck up there.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
It was really that Saturday I think was so rough,
like during the day and the days went by so
slow because we were up so early, just so anxious
and just sitting there thinking, like looking around at everything.
It was just unimaginable how we were going to get
out of there.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, well that's the thing. You have so much time
to think about.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
All.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, there was like no way out of it.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
We were like going through such stages of like, oh,
trying to like distract ourselves, but then like completely like
doom spiraling.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah. I mean, it really was the boutcherrette from hell.
Why couldn't you you just picked Vegas stuff? Why couldn't
you a little bit of fun?

Speaker 1 (15:00):
I don't know what I was thinking. Looking back. All
my friends are like, I don't know if I'm gonna
be your vibean anymore.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Like yeah, yeah, and your sister in law who's getting
married in Vermont in a couple of days, You're like
having a low key little panic attack, like I don't
want to go back into a mountain.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
I am so scared to go back. Yeah, but I
will do it for her because she was such a trooper.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
And she's by the way, this bride to be is
covered in like cuts and bruises from getting down the mountain.
It's just you guys, are going to be telling this
story until you're a thousand years old, because this is
like crazy, crazy, crazy tape. Well, we're happy that not
only do you are you here to tell your story,
but that you're helping other people. That's amazing. A little
fun fact for you for him when Kayla had you,

(15:41):
was it your the initial flight or the flight home
that you were listening to the podcast? Yeah, she her
phone wasn't working, she'd have much service, but the only
thing she had on her phone was our downloaded podcast
because she doesn't like to miss the show. So we
were like one of the first things you heard once
you were like able to use your phone.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
You were my first media.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
Wow, first media going in, first media going out.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
God, I just I think in my head, like you
survive something like that. And the first thing that you
have to hear about is that Santi's not taking viagra anymore.
He's one. That's Yeah, Cayla, we will get a clip
this up. We will post the gofund me. Thank you

(16:26):
so much for coming in.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Welcome you guys.
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