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Pregnant mom of 2 ‘completely trapped’ in her North Carolina home [Video]

No power. No food. And no functioning roads to safely leave the homes in which they are stranded.These are the conditions some North Carolina residents face amid the worst of the flooding caused by tropical depression Helene.Video above: North Carolina devastated by HeleneJennifer Replogle, a pregnant mother of two young children, is “completely trapped” at her home above Boone in Tater Hill, North Carolina, elevation 4,200 feet, where severe flooding from tropical storms is not the norm.”We weren’t prepared for this,” she said via text early Saturday morning. “The roads are gone, like completely gone.”Power has been out since early Friday, she said. She is among 700,000 North Carolina residents without power as of Saturday morning, according to poweroutage.us., including 19,226 in Watauga County, where Tater Hill is located.Replogle said she has no food and is running out of water.The few narrow, winding roads from the mountain into Boone are …

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