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New York State Continues Drastic Action Due To Hurricane Helene
First responders in New York State are on the ground to assist with recovery efforts following Hurricane Helene in the southeast. On Monday, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that 30 members of the New York State Incident Management Team have been deployed to Asheville, North Carolina to provide operational support for recovery efforts following Hurricane Helene.
‘A flood of biblical proportions’: A survivor’s Rosh Hashanah lessons from Hurricane Helene
I live in Asheville, N.C., in the path of Hurricane Helene. The devastation and destruction are hard to fathom, and the emotional toll for those of us who call western North Carolina home is impossible to convey — the very waterways that sustain us took everything from us. Standing on a bridge over the raging,...
The long road to recovery
This story originally ran in The Assembly. By Friday afternoon, residents in much of Western North Carolina lost cell service, leaving elected officials, emergency management responders, and residents begging for assistance. Two days later, President Joe Biden approved a federal disaster declaration request for 25 counties and the Eastern Band...
Asheville tragedy shows there are no climate change safe havens: Experts
Asheville, North Carolina, has been called a potential safe haven for climate refugees by real estate researchers, praised for its temperate mountain weather, distance far from the coast, experiencing less extreme heat and fewer wildfires. The city of around 95,000 people was believed markings of a place where those escaping the harsh impacts of the climate crisis could go for safety. Certainly, there are locations that are going to be able to withstand some of those impacts more than others, according to Dave Reidmiller, the director of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute's Climate Center. However, the fatal floods and landslides seen after Helene ripped through Buncombe County, which encompasses Asheville, highlight that "no place is truly untouched by climate change, anywhere in the world," said Reidmiller. Asheville is nearly 400 miles away from where the storm made landfall in Florida last Thursday.
Transylvania County unified emergency response to Tropical Storm Helene
Emergency services update Transylvania County is conducting wellness checks on home care patients and other checks requested through state 211.Communications have improved dramatically over the last 48 hours across the county. Emergency Management is deploying Starlink units to fire departments that are still without data restoration.Shelters remain open at the Transylvania County Parks and Recreation Center and the Ag Center at the Asheville Airport. The Shelter is not a distribution site for supplies and does not have food,...
Neighbor Helping Neighbor Takes Many Forms in Western N.C.
This time of year, Penland School of Craft in Western North Carolina is usually welcoming artists from all over the country to participate in a semester-long session with world-renowned instructors in sculpture, book-binding, print-making, and more. This week, instead, they’re feeding and sheltering people who have been uprooted by the...
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