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Asheville campground survivor recounts terrifying escape for life from Helene's horrific floods
Sheryl Pfeiffer found herself fighting for her life when Hurricane Helene's floodwaters began to rise around her camper in western North Carolina. Stranded at a campground in Asheville, she and her dog, Carley, faced an uncertain future.
ShowerUp is Headed to Aid Hurricane Victims and Needs Your Help
The Nashville-based local nonprofit that provides mobile showers and laundry service to the community’s unhoused will head to Asheville for Hurricane relief. Sharing on social media, “ShowerUp does not normally do disaster relief, so we do not budget for it at all. This means we need your help— We are asking for emergency funds. Taking a shower and laundry trailer 6 hours away and operating for an undesignated amount of time will be expensive. We can’t do it alone.”
President visits storm-ravaged North Carolina; death toll 178
(The Center Square) – Present but his desired out of the way, President Joe Biden flew over storm devastated regions of North and South Carolina on Wednesday. Briefed in Raleigh on emergency operations in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Biden landed in Greenville, S.C., and met with emergency officials, then went to Raleigh before getting […]
People moved to Asheville to escape extreme weather. They forgot its tragic history.
(CNN) — Asheville was touted as a climate haven, a place to escape the worst ravages of extreme weather. But Hurricane Helene’s deadly path of destruction reveals this North Carolina city, like any in America, was never safe — it’s just that memories are short and the reach of the climate crisis is consistently underestimated. “If you live […]
Muncie native says Asheville, NC, may never be the same after Hurricane Helene
Trauma therapist and Muncie native Kambra Meyer, a 20-year resident of Asheville, North Carolina, spoke to a freelance reporter five days after tropical storms hit the area, stemming from the third-deadliest hurricane in U.S. mainland history, Helene. Only Katrina in 2005 and Camille in 1969 caused more devastation and claimed more lives. As of Oct. 2, at least 162 people are reported dead in six southeastern states, with expectations that the death toll will certainly rise as...
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