My grandmother and other extended family are in Marion, NC. There is simply no service. If you don't have Starlink and a generator, best you're gonna do is maybe a text or two. Buncombe County/City of Asheville government reps just did a press conference via zoom. There's no official number on fatalities. If you know anyone in NC who needs information and/or rescue, refer them to the "North Carolina Weather Authority" Facebook page or the Cajun Navy Facebook page.
Entire towns have been obliterated. Chimney Rock simply doesn't exist anymore. The Swannanowa River is now flowing through Biltmore Village. Beech Mountain is entirely unreachable. Power won't be back on for weeks. Emergency workers have been going for 72 hours with little to no sleep. I don't know if the hospitals are functional. Interstate 40 slid almost entirely into the river at the Tennessee line. Appalachian State and Western Carolina University are both severely damaged. All roads west of Hickory are closed - ALL of them. Back road, state highway, interstate - closed. Until very recently, Asheville couldn't be reached without a helicopter. It's so, so, so bad.