Took 3 hours since I-40 was closed, but I got there. 7 hours round trip.

I didn't see really much damage in Asheville; the art river district was badly damaged, but that's only part of the city. The grocery stores were full, with the exception of refrigerated/frozen items, but there was plenty of bottled water, canned and dry goods, even veggies were fine. Hell, I could have even ordered a Starbuck's coffee in the grocery store made with bottled water. The bathrooms were out of commission.

The town in general wasn't bad at all in my opinion. I did go to a donation site, and it was being manned by Coast Guard reservists. They were friendly and asked what I needed when I pulled up in my car. There was only one other car there other than mine, and they got some bottled water, but other than that no one else was donating or picking up. They weren't taking donation so on I went. The town looked so good and was basically operating as normal other than some big buildings being damaged, I didn't donate, I just started off to another tiny town I'd heard had been hit hard, Marshall NC.

Small town, tons of damage, homes destroyed and swamped. They had a mile of road lined with small houses near the river (beautiful homesites), that got devastated. No power, no water, no septic and they were mucking mud out of their first-floor doors and windows. I found the Madison County fairgrounds where they were taking donations and left everything there. They also had active-duty Army at this location (20 or so) that were friendly and helpful both giving and taking donations along with some wonderfully friendly local women.

I forgot to take a photo of the receipt, but it's in the car and can do so later. Can't to about $750 bucks.