#hurricane-helene — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hurricane-helene, aggregated by home.social.
-
DHS secretary calls for US states to lead disaster response instead of Fema https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/07/dhs-secretary-state-fema-disaster-response #TrumpAdministration #NorthCarolina #HurricaneHelene #UsNews #UsPolitics #ExtremeWeather #ClimateCrisis #KristiNoem
-
BPR: Winter brings a fight to stay warm for those displaced by Helene and living in RVs
"...Most recreational vehicles are not built for winter weather. In freezing temperatures the water lines that supply the campers can freeze up. Because the RVs sit about two feet above the ground and lack insulation, the temperature inside can match the temperature outside – and wind makes it colder...."
-
How the climate crisis showed up in Americans’ lives this year: ‘The shift has been swift and stark’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/climate-crisis-guardian-readers #UsNews #ClimateCrisis #Biodiversity #Environment #ExtremeHeat #HurricaneHelene #Hurricanes #ExtremeWeather #California #EndangeredSpecies #EndangeredHabitats #Conservation #Wildlife #Animals #WestCoast
-
How the climate crisis showed up in Americans’ lives this year: ‘The shift has been swift and stark’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/climate-crisis-guardian-readers #UsNews #ClimateCrisis #Biodiversity #Environment #ExtremeHeat #HurricaneHelene #Hurricanes #ExtremeWeather #California #EndangeredSpecies #EndangeredHabitats #Conservation #Wildlife #Animals #WestCoast
-
Now that we're in the 2025 home stretch, our collective is shifting from retail hustle to reflection. This was a tough year, on lots of levels, but our public messaging has mostly focused on political concerns rather than the difficult financial position we've been in since Hurricane Helene.
Thanks to strong community support and a grant from the Southern Power Fund, our co-op started 2025 with what we thought was a generous buffer. But between Asheville's slow recovery and worsening conditions for low and middle income folks nationally, we're seeing sales far below those of previous years—and we've burned through our reserves trying to bridge the gap. Our collective is still analyzing the situation, but it's clear that the Q4 turnaround we'd hoped for did not materialize, and we're now headed into late winter on thin ice.
We value transparency, so this post is intended to be a heads up that our project is increasingly precarious. We'll share more information in January along with an outline of how we plan to address Firestorm's financial sustainability. In the meanwhile, we appreciate your continued support and hope that you'll keep us in mind when you're buying books! ❤️🔥
-
North Carolina Christmas tree farmers are optimistic after Hurricane Helene https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/24/christmas-tree-farmers-north-carolina #HurricaneHelene #Extremeweather #NorthCarolina #Climatecrisis #Agriculture #Environment #Christmas #Farming #USnews
-
North Carolina Christmas tree farmers are optimistic after Hurricane Helene https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/24/christmas-tree-farmers-north-carolina #HurricaneHelene #Extremeweather #NorthCarolina #Climatecrisis #Agriculture #Environment #Christmas #Farming #USnews
-
A Conversation About Amateur Radio and Hurricane Helene with Mark Hurst on Techtonic
#AmateurRadio #Emcomm #EmergencyPreparedness #HurricaneHelene #Techtonic #WFMU
-
🚗 Final packing this morning to head up to Asheville for a few days. Will see an exhibit at Biltmore and goof around otherwise. May go leaf peeping. 🍂
Last time I was there with my wife was the day #HurricaneHelene hit.
Will remember Rule 1: Don't ask locals to recount their hurricane stories.
-
Prepping a tent I haven't used in years, 'cause I'm headed to South Mountains State Park next week. My ultralight tent was damaged in high winds during my ill-fated trip to the barrier island weeks ago.
Most trails at SMSP have just reopened since #HurricaneHelene. I'll see what damage remains. Unfortunately, none of the Mtn bike trails are open, but I have my trusty hiking boots itching to tromp on the ground.
-
After Hurricane Helene, we promised ourselves that we wouldn't go through another disaster without a battery backup for our rooftop solar. Thanks to the folks at Footprint Project, we're on track to install 20kWh of battery capacity for our building this month!
So now want to pay it forward. On Thursday, October 9th, we'll be donating net proceeds from all sales in-store and online to the Feral Crust Infoshop in Davao, Philippines. This longstanding eco-anarchist project is a living experiment based on principles of mutual aid, cooperation and ecology. So buy a book (or two) and the donated sale will help to fund upgrades to Feral Crust's off-grid electrical infrastructure and rainwater harvesting systems!
https://firestorm.coop/catalog/new.html
#HurricaneHelene #MutualAidDisasterRelief #FeministBookstore #EcoAnarchism #Infoshop #FirestormCoop (- L)
-
Asheville’s Regional Arts Community One Year After Hurricane Helene: ‘We Are Not Okay’
-
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.
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/hurricane-helene-rebuilding-aid-help-us-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post#NorthCarolina #Hurricane #HurricaneHelene #HeleneRecovery #Helene #WNC
-
The Guardian: Asheville’s slimmed-down restaurants make a comeback a year after Hurricane Helene: ‘Back to the basics’
-
This weekend marks a year since Hurricane Helene poured into our mountains, creating both big C catastrophe and small C communism. To grapple with what we'd experienced, we created a Disaster Reading Group, initially focused on exploring Rebecca Solnit's "A Paradise Built In Hell." It was a wildly successful space, filling our bookstore to capacity for biweekly discussions. The group became a container for friendships forged in the chaos of last September alongside new relationships premised on a shared desire to process the worst, and hold onto the best, of the storm days.
Like other containers created for folks to find one another post-Helene, the reading group served as a launch pad for a multitude of organically organized activities, spaces, and dreams. In the new year, as we slipped from infrastructural crisis into political crisis, our group developed into a place to process the horror of watching fascism reassert itself within the US American body writ large, an anti-solidarity antithesis of what we'd co-created as storm survivors.
We know that Helene will continue to fall further behind us, with new storms looming. And while what we experienced will stay with us forever, it's time to wind down this particular space that was created for our grief and joy as survivors. The final reading cycle will, appropriately enough, return us to Helene and our own stories.
Whether or not you've attended in the past, you're invited to join on Monday, Oct 6th to discuss "Appalachia the Catastrophe," the final issue of the incredible Mergoat Magazine. Copies can be found at our shop or purchased through our website with a 10% discount using promo code BEHOLDEN. We'll be splitting the publication—replete with photos, poetry, art, and essays—into two sessions followed by a final potluck to send us off into the next adventure, no doubt full of both terror and unanticipated possibilities. We hope you can join us!
#HurricaneHelene #AshevilleStrong #MutualAidDisasterRelief #FeministBookstore (- L)
-
Asheville florist rebuilds bright spot after Helene’s devastation https://www.allforgardening.com/1453968/asheville-florist-rebuilds-bright-spot-after-helenes-devastation/ #BrightSpot #EmilyPatrick #flowers #FlowersGardening #garden #gardening #HurricaneHelene #storefront #WesternNorthCarolina
-
#PeterSantenello reporting in #appalachia on the aftermath of ##HurricaneHelene 6 months after it happened. mainstream media has abandoned & ignored the event. the only ppl helping are #volunteers & #amish communities. there's still thousands in desperate need of everything.
#press #news #media #BreakingNews #AidAppeal #MutualAid #ClimateDisaster
-
#PeterSantenello reporting in #appalachia on the aftermath of ##HurricaneHelene 6 months after it happened. mainstream media has abandoned & ignored the event. the only ppl helping are #volunteers & #amish communities. there's still thousands in desperate need of everything.
#press #news #media #BreakingNews #AidAppeal #MutualAid #ClimateDisaster
-
Trump Delays Approved Aid to North Carolina
Share Share -
I Never Understood Our Data-Saturated Life Until a Hurricane Shut It Down - When Helene disconnected my part of North Carolina for weeks, my neighbors and I had to r... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/magazine/hurricane-disaster-information-media-blackout.html #hurricanesandtropicalstorms #computersandtheinternet #collegesanduniversities #rumorsandmisinformation #disastersandemergencies #hurricanehelene(2024) #leveesanddams #weather #floods #water #radio
-
#NCDOT resumes intercity bus service to #Asheville nearly 1 year after #HurricaneHelene | abc11.com
-
After all these long months since Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc back in September 2024, our reconstruction guys are finally almost finished with the house repairs.
Thus far, our damaged corner of the house is being repaired to a better-than-original condition.
So many homes in our area are still damaged and awaiting repairs. Our home had a huge tree in it, but we were still better off than many of our neighbors.
-
#NorthCarolina #HurricaneHelene #FEMA
"The government stepped in to clean up a disaster in North Carolina. Then they created another one.
Debris removal after Hurricane Helene did more damage to the environment than the storm itself in some parts of the state, scientists claim.
The small section of forest before me looked as though it was clear-cut. The ground was flat and treeless, covered in a thin layer of jumbled sticks and leaves.
This region, a wetland formed by beavers near the South Carolina border, was flooded last September by Hurricane Helene. But it wasn’t the storm that razed the forest. It was the machines that came after. They were part of a hurricane cleanup effort, bankrolled by the federal government, that many environmental experts believe went very, very wrong.
Helene hit North Carolina in late September last year, dumping historic amounts of rain that damaged thousands of homes, killed more than 100 people, and littered rivers with debris including fallen trees, building fragments, and cars. In the months since, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has sponsored an enormous cleanup effort in western North Carolina. It focused, among other things, on clearing debris from waterways for public safety. Storm debris left in rivers and streams can create jams that make them more likely to flood in the future.
In some parts of the state, however, cleanup crews contracted by the federal government removed much more than just dangerous debris. According to several state biologists, environmental experts, and my own observations from a recent trip to the area, contractors in some regions cleared live trees still rooted in the ground, logs that were in place well before the storm, and other natural features of the habitat that may not have posed a risk to public safety."
https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/420513/flooding-debris-removal-hurricane-helene-wildlife
-
One week from today, we'll be hosting author Michael Holcombe for a presentation on his new book, "The Story of Asheville's Water"—the first history of our municipal water, from the 1797 incorporation of the city to post-Helene recovery.
Michael was Asheville's water resources director throughout much of the 1990s and set out to write "The Story of Asheville's Water" after the infamous municipal outage of December 2022. His work uncovers the remarkable degree to which Asheville is a city built on water, from its early beginnings to its promised future as a "climate haven."
This 45 minute presentation will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing. Full details can be found at https://firestorm.coop/events/3430-the-story-of-ashevilles-water-with-author-michael-l-holcombe.html.
#AshevilleWatershed #HurricaneHelene #ClimateHaven #WaterIsLife #FirestormCoop (- L)
