Hello to the Bluelight community
One of our long-term members and administrators @Xorkoth lives in Asheville, NC, USA. As you've probably heard, this area of the world was recently devastated by a hurricane leading to flooding of the entire town and surrounds. The following information is from a message from BLer @Xorkoth. If you'd like to donate to the charity he is working with, all donations will help with the rebuilding of his community.
Donate to Beloved Asheville
Chat about Hurricane Helene here
One of our long-term members and administrators @Xorkoth lives in Asheville, NC, USA. As you've probably heard, this area of the world was recently devastated by a hurricane leading to flooding of the entire town and surrounds. The following information is from a message from BLer @Xorkoth. If you'd like to donate to the charity he is working with, all donations will help with the rebuilding of his community.
Donate to Beloved Asheville
Just an update: I’ve totally got my bearings and now that my neighborhood is doing well, I’ve turned to putting all my focus into helping with the massive amount of aid that is needed. The damage and widespread nature of this thing is so unprecedented that the authorities and government agencies can barely put a dent in the work that needs to be done, so most of the AV done is grassroots stuff.
I’ve gotten involved with an organization, and we are doing various things, yesterday. I brought water to people in apartment complex, who didn’t have water, and today I’m actually pulling someone out of a situation where they’re stranded at their house, their house is condemned, so we’re rescuing them, and pulling as much of their belongings out of the house as possible. This is in an area where the levee broke and it’s just complete devastation.
My work has been great enough to allow me to take some time but still get paid and just be on call for emergency in order to do this work for at least the next week and I might take some more time after that. This has been a life-changing experience for me, and just unbelievably amazing, tragic, and just… I can’t synthesize it into words yet
You could update the whole staff and not just admins if you want. If anyone wants to help, donations to the organization called BeLoved will definitely go 100% to directly helping people on the ground
They/we are bringing food and water to people daily, and other necessities like gas, and also running various other projects including saving people and other stuff that you don’t even think about, like bringing non-potable water for flushing toilets to prevent sanitation disease spread
The municipal water system is basically totally destroyed. No estimate on when it will be restored so nobody in town has running water. I’m extremely fortunate to have a natural spring whose source is in my property, it flows at about 2 gallons per minute 24/7/365, so me and my neighborhood are good there.
It’s been a wild weeks, it feels like a month. We won’t be getting electricity for quite some time still either, there are 6 places on my road where there are multiple trees down on the powerlines, and the utility poles are shattered into multiple pieces.
Chat about Hurricane Helene here
