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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. 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 name 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

  3. ProPublica and The Assembly have been reporting on the impact of Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina, and we know recovery is far from over.

    If you’re in the process of rebuilding, we want to hear from you.
    propublica.org/getinvolved/hur

    #NorthCarolina #Hurricane #HurricaneHelene #HeleneRecovery #Helene #WNC

  4. ProPublica and The Assembly have been reporting on the impact of Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina, and we know recovery is far from over.

    If you’re in the process of rebuilding, we want to hear from you.
    propublica.org/getinvolved/hur

    #NorthCarolina #Hurricane #HurricaneHelene #HeleneRecovery #Helene #WNC

  5. Community Foundation of WNC grants $975K to MANNA FoodBank

    ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina (CFWNC) has awarded MANNA FoodBank $975,000 to help distribute food for families across western North Carolina, accord…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #CommunityFoundation #Families #foodinsecurity #Grant #Helene #MannaFoodBank #nutrition #westernnorthcarolina
    diningandcooking.com/2294157/c

  6. Community Foundation of WNC grants $975K to MANNA FoodBank

    ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina (CFWNC) has awarded MANNA FoodBank $975,000 to help distribute food for families across western North Carolina, accord…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #CommunityFoundation #Families #foodinsecurity #Grant #Helene #MannaFoodBank #nutrition #westernnorthcarolina
    diningandcooking.com/2294157/c

  7. Community Foundation of WNC grants $975K to MANNA FoodBank

    ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina (CFWNC) has awarded MANNA FoodBank $975,000 to help distribute food for families across western North Carolina, accord…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #CommunityFoundation #Families #foodinsecurity #Grant #Helene #MannaFoodBank #nutrition #westernnorthcarolina
    diningandcooking.com/2294157/c

  8. Community Foundation of WNC grants $975K to MANNA FoodBank

    ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina (CFWNC) has awarded MANNA FoodBank $975,000 to help distribute food for families across western North Carolina, accord…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #CommunityFoundation #Families #foodinsecurity #Grant #Helene #MannaFoodBank #nutrition #westernnorthcarolina
    diningandcooking.com/2294157/c

  9. #Naturkatastrophen verursachten 2024 weltweit #Schäden von 320 Milliarden Dollar – das drittteuerste Jahr seit 1980.

    tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/natur

    Besonders betroffen war #Nordamerika, vor allem durch Hurricanes "#Helene" und "#Milton".

    Auch #Europa verzeichnete starke #Überschwemmungen, blieb jedoch vergleichsweise glimpflich. Laut #MunichRe verstärken der #Klimawandel und steigende #Wassertemperaturen extreme #Wetterereignisse.

    #Klimawandel #Naturkatastrophen #Versicherung #Extremwetter

  10. #Naturkatastrophen verursachten 2024 weltweit #Schäden von 320 Milliarden Dollar – das drittteuerste Jahr seit 1980.

    tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/natur

    Besonders betroffen war #Nordamerika, vor allem durch Hurricanes "#Helene" und "#Milton".

    Auch #Europa verzeichnete starke #Überschwemmungen, blieb jedoch vergleichsweise glimpflich. Laut #MunichRe verstärken der #Klimawandel und steigende #Wassertemperaturen extreme #Wetterereignisse.

    #Klimawandel #Naturkatastrophen #Versicherung #Extremwetter

  11. #Helene #NCwx #NorthCarolina #BuncombeCounty #McDowellCounty #NCFS 11/01/24
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    👉78% private (private individuals, corporations, and other ownerships)
    👉21% public (US Forest Service and other public ownerships)
    👉1% reserved lands (reserved areas such as park lands)

    The heaviest damage was confined to a six-county area with Buncombe and McDowell counties being at the center of this area.

  12. #Helene #NCwx #NorthCarolina #BuncombeCounty #McDowellCounty #NCFS 11/01/24
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    👉78% private (private individuals, corporations, and other ownerships)
    👉21% public (US Forest Service and other public ownerships)
    👉1% reserved lands (reserved areas such as park lands)

    The heaviest damage was confined to a six-county area with Buncombe and McDowell counties being at the center of this area.

  13. #Helene #NCwx #NorthCarolina #BuncombeCounty #McDowellCounty #NCFS 11/01/24
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    👉78% private (private individuals, corporations, and other ownerships)
    👉21% public (US Forest Service and other public ownerships)
    👉1% reserved lands (reserved areas such as park lands)

    The heaviest damage was confined to a six-county area with Buncombe and McDowell counties being at the center of this area.

  14. #Helene #NCwx #NorthCarolina #BuncombeCounty #McDowellCounty #NCFS 11/01/24
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    👉78% private (private individuals, corporations, and other ownerships)
    👉21% public (US Forest Service and other public ownerships)
    👉1% reserved lands (reserved areas such as park lands)

    The heaviest damage was confined to a six-county area with Buncombe and McDowell counties being at the center of this area.

  15. #Helene #NCwx #NorthCarolina #BuncombeCounty #McDowellCounty #NCFS 11/01/24
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    From NC Forest Service on FB: N.C. Forest Service personnel have completed an aerial forestland damage assessment in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. The assessment is an estimate of damage to the timber resource. An estimated 822,000 acres of timberland received some level of damage during the storm, resulting in an estimated $214,000,000 of timber damage on all North Carolina forest lands. Damage distribution between land ownership was estimated to be:

  16. #Helene #NCwx #NorthCarolina #BuncombeCounty #McDowellCounty #NCFS 11/01/24
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    From NC Forest Service on FB: N.C. Forest Service personnel have completed an aerial forestland damage assessment in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. The assessment is an estimate of damage to the timber resource. An estimated 822,000 acres of timberland received some level of damage during the storm, resulting in an estimated $214,000,000 of timber damage on all North Carolina forest lands. Damage distribution between land ownership was estimated to be:

  17. #Helene #NCwx #NorthCarolina #BuncombeCounty #McDowellCounty #NCFS 11/01/24
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    From NC Forest Service on FB: N.C. Forest Service personnel have completed an aerial forestland damage assessment in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. The assessment is an estimate of damage to the timber resource. An estimated 822,000 acres of timberland received some level of damage during the storm, resulting in an estimated $214,000,000 of timber damage on all North Carolina forest lands. Damage distribution between land ownership was estimated to be:

  18. #Helene #NCwx #NorthCarolina #BuncombeCounty #McDowellCounty #NCFS 11/01/24
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    From NC Forest Service on FB: N.C. Forest Service personnel have completed an aerial forestland damage assessment in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. The assessment is an estimate of damage to the timber resource. An estimated 822,000 acres of timberland received some level of damage during the storm, resulting in an estimated $214,000,000 of timber damage on all North Carolina forest lands. Damage distribution between land ownership was estimated to be:

  19. #Helene #NCwx #NorthCarolina #BuncombeCounty #McDowellCounty #NCFS 11/01/24
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    From NC Forest Service on FB: N.C. Forest Service personnel have completed an aerial forestland damage assessment in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. The assessment is an estimate of damage to the timber resource. An estimated 822,000 acres of timberland received some level of damage during the storm, resulting in an estimated $214,000,000 of timber damage on all North Carolina forest lands. Damage distribution between land ownership was estimated to be:

  20. #Helene #NCwx #NorthCarolina #BuncombeCounty 10/28/24 2/2

    Some of the services that a DRC may provide include:
    - Guidance regarding disaster recovery
    - Clarification of any written correspondence received
    - Answers to questions, resolution of problems, and referrals to agencies that may provide further assistance
    - Status of applications being processed by FEMA
    - Assistance with SBA applications

  21. #Helene #NCwx #NorthCarolina #BuncombeCounty 10/28/24 2/2

    Some of the services that a DRC may provide include:
    - Guidance regarding disaster recovery
    - Clarification of any written correspondence received
    - Answers to questions, resolution of problems, and referrals to agencies that may provide further assistance
    - Status of applications being processed by FEMA
    - Assistance with SBA applications

  22. #Helene #NCwx #NorthCarolina #BuncombeCounty 10/28/24 2/2

    Some of the services that a DRC may provide include:
    - Guidance regarding disaster recovery
    - Clarification of any written correspondence received
    - Answers to questions, resolution of problems, and referrals to agencies that may provide further assistance
    - Status of applications being processed by FEMA
    - Assistance with SBA applications

  23. #Helene #NCwx #NorthCarolina #BuncombeCounty 10/28/24 2/2

    Some of the services that a DRC may provide include:
    - Guidance regarding disaster recovery
    - Clarification of any written correspondence received
    - Answers to questions, resolution of problems, and referrals to agencies that may provide further assistance
    - Status of applications being processed by FEMA
    - Assistance with SBA applications

  24. #Helene #NCwx #NorthCarolina #BuncombeCounty 10/29/24 1/2

    From Buncombe County Government on FB: A new Disaster Recovery Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) is now open at Cane Creek Pool at 590 Lower Bush Creek Road in Fairview. This location is open daily from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

    A mobile disaster recovery center is at the Buncombe County Sports Park at 58 Apac Drive in Asheville open through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

    A Disaster Recovery Center is a readily accessible facility or mobile office where applicants may go for information about disaster assistance programs. It serves as the "face" of FEMA to many disaster survivors.

  25. #Helene #NCwx #NorthCarolina #BuncombeCounty 10/29/24 1/2

    From Buncombe County Government on FB: A new Disaster Recovery Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) is now open at Cane Creek Pool at 590 Lower Bush Creek Road in Fairview. This location is open daily from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

    A mobile disaster recovery center is at the Buncombe County Sports Park at 58 Apac Drive in Asheville open through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

    A Disaster Recovery Center is a readily accessible facility or mobile office where applicants may go for information about disaster assistance programs. It serves as the "face" of FEMA to many disaster survivors.

  26. #Helene #NCwx #NorthCarolina #BuncombeCounty 10/29/24 1/2

    From Buncombe County Government on FB: A new Disaster Recovery Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) is now open at Cane Creek Pool at 590 Lower Bush Creek Road in Fairview. This location is open daily from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

    A mobile disaster recovery center is at the Buncombe County Sports Park at 58 Apac Drive in Asheville open through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

    A Disaster Recovery Center is a readily accessible facility or mobile office where applicants may go for information about disaster assistance programs. It serves as the "face" of FEMA to many disaster survivors.