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  1. RE: kolektiva.social/@firestorm/11

    Our city's independent bookstore needs your help!

    My local anticapitalist, antifascist, LGBTQIA+ friendly, anarchist, super ultra crunchy, cooperatively owned, and self described "radical bookstore" is falling on tough times.

    Hurricane Helene was a doozy y'all, a ton of small businesses like this are closing with no plans on reopening. The FEMA payments meant to help Asheville and WNC are being bogged down in a bunch of red tape, so many of us haven't seen a dime of them yet, even though some of it is earmarked to help small business. And, although tourism is coming back (and we're very very open for business!) the shock to the system was just too big for a lot of folks.

    I've seen long-standing cornerstorne-of-the-neighborhood places just like this wink out of existence without any warning, only to be replaced by exploitative, soul-sucking corporate owned chains run by people who don't even live or pay their taxes in our community. I don't want to keep seeing this happen to the town I grew up in.

    These are good people who provide an essential service to our city: being some of the loudest, most outspoken defenders of our human rights, and providing civic minded reading material you won't find anywhere else.

    They sell books other people don't want you to read, and that generally means those are books you're obligated to read.

    Also, they once hosted the backroom of their bookstore out as a viewing space for a no-budget student film I helped make like a decade ago and they were real cool about it so-long-as everyone we invited to the screening bought a coffee or a book. Do you think Barnes & Nobel would do that? Would Amazon?

    Check 'em out! Buy a banned book! Become a sustaining member of one of the best independent bookstores around!

    firestorm.coop/

    #Asheville #WNC #HeleneRecovery #Helene #SmallBusiness #LocalBusiness #ShopLocal #Bookstodon

  2. An update on the #Asheville, post-#Helene water situation, from the #AVLWatchdog. We're so grateful to have their excellent independent reporting in our community.

    avlwatchdog.org/march-toward-n

    #Turbidity the word everyone in #Buncombe County has learned the meaning of in 2024.

  3. Whether ignorant or lying, 45 does not have the grasp of reality needed to be an effective president.

    Trump falsely claims Georgia Governor Kemp had difficulty reaching President Biden while Kemp discusses the conversation he had directly with Biden.

    Being this out of touch with the world, especially in a crisis, is one of the ways trump is not ready to be president.

    #election #elections #trump #DonaldTrump #reality #dementia #senility #president #kemp #biden #helene #politics #USpol

  4. Ooh, I found a source for the North Carolina emergency operations map! #EOC #NCwx #Helene

  5. Signal boosting for a friend:

    He's working with Hurricane Relief looking at #solar power options for RVs and pop-up villages with tiny homes for winter in #ETN & #WNC. Any thoughts or suggestions regarding #renewable energy for RVs and sheds appreciated.

    They're looking at this:
    amazon.com/Renogy-200-Watt-Vol
    and wondering if anyone has opinions on it. Open to any recommendations / brands that are effective!

    #MutualAid #DisasterRelief #Helene

  6. Yowzah

    65miles S of Apallachee Bay, moving at 25mph, NNE. Surface winds ~130mph, pressure 941mb, whew.

    #Helene #NHA #NOAA #weather

  7. Yowzah

    65miles S of Apallachee Bay, moving at 25mph, NNE. Surface winds ~130mph, pressure 941mb, whew.

    #Helene #NHA #NOAA #weather

  8. Yowzah

    65miles S of Apallachee Bay, moving at 25mph, NNE. Surface winds ~130mph, pressure 941mb, whew.

    #Helene #NHA #NOAA #weather

  9. Augusta National Golf Club donates $5 million for Hurricane Helene relief

    As we focus on Western North Carolina, some might not realize that #Augusta #Georgia has been hit just as hard.

    My husband and son are #golfers. I've watched their relationship grow stronger just by being together on a #golf course. Some consider Golf a "rich man's" sport but they have it wrong. Spending the day with your kid makes you the richest you will ever feel.

    espn.com/golf/story/_/id/41591

    #Helene #Helene2024

  10. 𝗛é𝗹è𝗻𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗸𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗵𝘁 '𝗺𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲' 𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝗮𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿

    Hélène Hendriks (43) legt in een nieuwe aflevering van de RTL Boulevard-serie Marleen-tweetje uit waarom ze de identiteit van haar grote liefde geheim houdt. Volgens haar heeft dat alles te maken met de wensen van haar partner.

    rtlnieuws.nl/entertainment/art

    #Hélène #Hendriks #partnerontkracht

  11. #Marriage #LetItGo #Battles #Donations #Helene

    Knowing when to back off is crucial if you've been married a long time like me.

    She is headed to Dollar Genral, where I NEVER shop, on principal alone. There is a clearance sale and she's off to get stuff ofr a local fire dept who is sending a full truck down south.

    I told her I'd pay the difference if she went to a different retailer. Nope. She didn't want to hear it.

    I backed off because on the table are 200 postcards she's done getting out the vote for Harris/Walz.

    Pick your battles.

  12. #Helene aftermath: Dozens dead, historic #flooding, millions without power amid catastrophic destruction

    Historic, 'once-in-a-generation' #HurricaneHelene unleashed catastrophic flooding, ferocious #winds, and perilous conditions that extend hundreds of miles inland.

    By Monica Danielle, AccuWeather Managing Editor

    Published Sep 28, 2024 12:26 PM EDT | Updated Sep 28, 2024 12:26 PM EDT

    "More than 32 inches of rain fell in Jeter Mountain, #NorthCarolina, and nearly 30 inches was reported in Busick, North Carolina.

    "#AtlantaGeorgia recorded 11.2 inches in 48 hours, beating out its 9.59-inch record that had stood since 1886."

    accuweather.com/en/hurricane/h

    #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #ExtremeWeather #ExtremeWx #SoutheasternUS

  13. The #National #Climatic #Data #Center is based in Asheville, North Carolina.

    As I write this, the center's website remains offline.
    That's because Asheville, a city in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, is the epicenter of catastrophic flooding from #Hurricane #Helene that has played out over the last week.
    🔥The climate data facility is inoperable because water and electricity services in the region have entirely broken down due to flooding.

    arstechnica.com/science/2024/0

  14. And if you purchase Drenched in Place: A Compilation Album for Hurricane Helene Relief curated by Rising Appalachia, you'll be helping another recovery effort as well. AND getting some excellent #AmericanRoots #music

    #Helene #HurricaneRelief

    drenchedinplace.bandcamp.com/a

  15. Shout-out to Atomic Filament, who has been my #3Dprinting #filament supplier for years. They'll be donating filament so that I can continue printing the BottleFlow portable showers.

    If you need 3D printing filaments, their products are incredible and they're also awesome people!
    atomicfilament.com

    #3dprinter #asheville #hurricanerelief #hurricane #helene

  16. BottleFlow, instant bottle shower, is now available for free download.

    Hurricane #Helene will deprive Western North Carolina from running water for a long time. You can help #WNC by #3Dprinting and donating #BottleFlow.

    #Asheville #HurricaneRelief

    printables.com/model/1026641-b

  17. I made a new friend today, Tara. She's a small black and white cat brought down this weekend by our team at Saving Sage Animal Rescue Foundation from a shelter in North Carolina impacted by Hurricane Helene.

    I'm holding her awkwardly because she was moving around and I was trying to take a one-handed selfie with her. I'm surprised I got a decent shot.

    She was a little shy at first, but is an absolute sweetie 💖

    savingsagerescue.org

    #SavingSage #NoKill #shelter #NorthCarolina #Helene