We have all seen the devastating photos of the effects of Hurricane Helene. Many people in the areas hit by this storm have lost their homes, everything. My older sister lives on the border of Florida and Georgia, in the direct path of Helene; she was lucky: a tree fell onto her roof but no one was killed, and she still has a home.
Please donate to charities that are helping people, such as:
The North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund
North Carolina Foundation for Public School Children’s disaster relief fund
If you have other charitable groups to add to this list, please send them.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
North Carolina Foundation for Public School Children’s disaster relief fund. It’s a great organization
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Added to the list. Thank you.
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Thank you!
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Donate to Bill Mckibbens 350.org or Third Act. Prevention and advocacy is crucial. sunrise movement.
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Thanks! Diane. The western part of our state is devastated. This was to be a banner economic year for fall foliage, but th
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thank you for including the links to donate and help.
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I used to live in those mountains. They do not have flat places to ease the flow of water. While Appalachian valleys easily manage 5-10 inches of rain, 20-30, the pervasive amount recorded on Friday up in there, was too much.
Above Asheville, the Toe River Country took some of the heavy rain. The girls of the Toe form the Nolichucky, which plunged down the Tennessee side into tiny Erwin, necessitating a massive helicopter rescue of people in the local hospital. Below Asheville, the pigeon river devastated Newport, TN as it took water west, destroying both Westbound lanes of I40 before. I assume clearing 40 for two lanes will take months. Last I heard, there were 150 missing in Tennessee. Five major bridges are completely destroyed near Greenville.
And I did not even get to North Carolina.
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Done!
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Some of the older families in the FL panhandle could not afford to carry the cost of insurance, and they lost their homes, some of which had been in the family for generations.
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“60 Minutes” just had a story on how the remaining “fly by night” insurers are scamming the public. Heritage Insurance and other providers are deleting a lot of the damages from insurance adjuster’s report. They are underestimating claims by hundreds of thousands of dollars. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/florida-hurricane-insurance-whistleblowers-60-minutes-video-2024-09-29/
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This is an Asheville NC area independent news outlet that we should keep reading as recovery from Hurricane Helene begins. They “called the hit” on September 17, 2024. Asheville Watchdoghttps://avlwatchdog.org/ashevilles-flood-risk-will-only-grow-as-rain-events-and-climate-change-intensify/
And SADLY from November 2019! HEADLINE: North Carolina Has USA’s 2nd Largest Collection Of Poorly Maintained Dams. Built In Places Where A Failure Could Kill People https://www.wfae.org/local-news/2019-11-10/north-carolina-no-2-in-risky-dams-where-failure-could-kill#
The politics discussed on this site have real life consequences for all of us. Radical weather/climate events simply magnify the work that lies ahead of us. Cue the Curriculum Developers.
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