Rebecca and Julie: Thanks very much for gathering the information for the community. You can learn a bit more about what Katharine Winship is going through in the Black Mtn area of NC in the comments of my Reimagining Rain piece. Here's a good chunk of it:
"I’m impressed with the wherewithal of some really good humans. Every house is assigned to a street leader.
FEMA is in town but not in my area of these mountains.
I’ve been at the collapsed portion of the road since 8:00 this morning. Four guys from our neighborhood pulled off a miracle with their equipment. We got 3 loads of gravel in (amazing) and one top coat level grade coming in tomorrow morning. When the power trucks get up to Highway 9 at this elevation, we’ve given them a safe way up.
We are sharing generators. I got a hot shower yesterday —that was heavenly. And tonight neighbors who knew I had been in the trenches all day made me my first real food since the storm hit a week ago. Helicopters have delivered water and Fritos(!)"
Thank you for this effort. My home sits right at the highest recorded rainfall for Helene: 30.78” in Busick, NC (which is at the eastern foot of Mt Mitchell, the highest peak in the eastern US). In the coming months I think I will be writing about how this disaster has impacted the web of life and our connections to it. In other words, how a disaster asks us to bring our spiritual energy forward in a purposeful way. But it’s too soon for any of that, I’ve got friends whose farms have washed away, my own art studio (where my daughter also resides) has been flooded, there are challenges in procuring fresh food, and mind-blowing devastation all around. https://stephaniethomasberry.substack.com/
Thanks for adding your voice and experiences here, Stephanie! That’s an unimaginable amount of rain. 😢 Glad you are in strong community there. Sending my best to you in your recovery.
Thank you, Rebecca and Julie, for building the family of nature-loving Substack writers, and for connecting with the Helene survivors. It’s important for them as well as for us who live further away and it makes all of us realize how vulnerable we all are for climate change impacts.
Asheville resident Alex Dobrenko checks in here: https://open.substack.com/pub/botharetrue/p/were-okay-a-quick-asheville-update?r=4cg2x&utm_medium=ios
Post also includes places to donate.
Rebecca and Julie: Thanks very much for gathering the information for the community. You can learn a bit more about what Katharine Winship is going through in the Black Mtn area of NC in the comments of my Reimagining Rain piece. Here's a good chunk of it:
"I’m impressed with the wherewithal of some really good humans. Every house is assigned to a street leader.
FEMA is in town but not in my area of these mountains.
I’ve been at the collapsed portion of the road since 8:00 this morning. Four guys from our neighborhood pulled off a miracle with their equipment. We got 3 loads of gravel in (amazing) and one top coat level grade coming in tomorrow morning. When the power trucks get up to Highway 9 at this elevation, we’ve given them a safe way up.
We are sharing generators. I got a hot shower yesterday —that was heavenly. And tonight neighbors who knew I had been in the trenches all day made me my first real food since the storm hit a week ago. Helicopters have delivered water and Fritos(!)"
oh, wow, that's amazing. Impressive what people can do when they work together. Thanks for sharing it, Jason.
What an important post--so needed in the wake of this horrific storm. Thank you both!
Hard to put into words how meaningful this is, how the love is palpable. THANK YOU! 💚
Thank you for this effort. My home sits right at the highest recorded rainfall for Helene: 30.78” in Busick, NC (which is at the eastern foot of Mt Mitchell, the highest peak in the eastern US). In the coming months I think I will be writing about how this disaster has impacted the web of life and our connections to it. In other words, how a disaster asks us to bring our spiritual energy forward in a purposeful way. But it’s too soon for any of that, I’ve got friends whose farms have washed away, my own art studio (where my daughter also resides) has been flooded, there are challenges in procuring fresh food, and mind-blowing devastation all around. https://stephaniethomasberry.substack.com/
Thanks for adding your voice and experiences here, Stephanie! That’s an unimaginable amount of rain. 😢 Glad you are in strong community there. Sending my best to you in your recovery.
Thank you, Rebecca and Julie, for building the family of nature-loving Substack writers, and for connecting with the Helene survivors. It’s important for them as well as for us who live further away and it makes all of us realize how vulnerable we all are for climate change impacts.
Here's another that can be added to the list, Renée Eli, Ph.D. : https://reneeeliphd.substack.com/p/in-the-aftermath-of-helene
Thank you, Tania!
Thanks for spearheading this, Rebecca! 💚