Jonathan Howard

As we were driving into Lake Lure, there was a sheriff deputy, one deputy sitting there at like a checkpoint blocking the road.

And he sees us.

He goes, oh, you guys stop.

I already heard about you.

You can't come in here.

And we were like, what do you mean you heard about us?

Like, we just got here.

He's like, yeah, area recovery, you're not allowed to come in here.

They're talking about you all over the radio right now.

So he's calling his team who's in Lake Lure with the mayor.

And they're like, we don't know what's going on.

So we tell this deputy, we're like, hey man, we know you're just the messenger, like, get me some authority up here.

So a police captain comes up to us, nice guy.

He goes, yeah, I can't let you in, guys.

He goes, they're blocking aerial recovery from coming in.

And that's where I'm like, hey, I'm with the state guard.

I wanna go in there.

And he's like, I can't do it.

He's like, something about the Speaker of the House of North Carolina is blocking you guys from coming in.

And we were just like, this is not making any sense at all.