#hurricanehelene — Public Fediverse posts

#HurricaneHelene #Helene #FEMA #ClimateCrisis #Appalachia

Georgia blaze shows how climate change has led to more wildfires in the East

Often considered more a problem for western North America, wildfires are becoming more intense, frequent and damaging in…
#Climate #ClimateChange #Climate-Change #carissawonkka #climatechange #deadtree #east #fuel #Georgia #globalwarming #hurricanehelene #morefire #nicknauslar #number #Problem #TON #university #victoriadonovan #west
https://www.europesays.com/2947648/

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...."

https://www.bpr.org/helene-recovery/2026-01-28/winter-brings-a-fight-to-stay-warm-for-those-displaced-by-helene-and-living-in-rvs?utm_source=npr.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=national_highlight&utm_content=homepage

#disasters #hurricanehelene #survival

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! ❤️‍🔥

#FeministBookstore #HurricaneHelene #FirestormCoop

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

https://swling.com/blog/2025/12/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.

#AVL #Asheville #Helene

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.

#Helene #SouthMountainsSP #FallCamping #Camping

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)

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)

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)

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)

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’

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/hurricane-helene-one-year-anniversary-asheville-1235440885/

Looking back now, over a year after covering news of Helene

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — I had been employed at News 13 for just over four months when Helene…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #Ceremonies #HurricaneHelene #Liveslost #Meteorologists #northcarolina #recovery #Science #Storm #WesternNorthCarolina
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/194165/

Looking back now, over a year after covering news of Helene

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — I had been employed at News 13 for just over four months when Helene…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #Ceremonies #HurricaneHelene #Liveslost #Meteorologists #northcarolina #recovery #Science #Storm #WesternNorthCarolina
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/194165/

Looking back now, over a year after covering news of Helene

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — I had been employed at News 13 for just over four months when Helene…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #Ceremonies #HurricaneHelene #Liveslost #Meteorologists #northcarolina #recovery #Science #Storm #WesternNorthCarolina
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/192516/

Looking back now, over a year after covering news of Helene

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — I had been employed at News 13 for just over four months when Helene…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #Ceremonies #HurricaneHelene #Liveslost #Meteorologists #northcarolina #recovery #Science #Storm #WesternNorthCarolina
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/192516/

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’

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/25/asheville-north-carolina-restaurants-hurricane-helene

#NCwx #HurricaneHelene #helene #hurricanes

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

https://youtu.be/A6wmG7QqaOk?

#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

https://youtu.be/A6wmG7QqaOk?

Trump Delays Approved Aid to North Carolina

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

https://abc11.com/post/ncdot-resumes-intercity-bus-service-asheville-1-year-hurricane-helene/17415653/

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.

#HurricaneHelene

#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)

For many Florida residents still recovering from #HurricaneHelene and #HurricaneMilton, it seems like last season never ended. Stay safe and be kind. #BePrepared #HaveAPlan #DisasterPreparedness #ResilienceMatters
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/managing-change-storm-season-nivine-k-zakhari-2u69e

One week from today, our post-Helene reading group is back with a very appropriate new book pick! Participants will be reading "Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead" by renowned scholar and activist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.

New folks welcome! 🌊❄️💧

"Theory of Water" is a resonant exploration of an intricate, multi-layered relationship with the most abundant element on our planet—one that is shaping our present even as it demands a radical rethinking of how we might achieve a just future. Copies are available at a discount from our co-op and will be made available without charge to participants who cannot afford a purchase.

This series is co-facilitated by Lauren Miller and will include four sessions bisected by a potluck. Additional details and schedule can be found at https://firestorm.coop/events/3423-theory-of-water-a-disaster-reading-group.html.

#HurricaneHelene #MutualAidDisasterRelief #TheoryOfWater #AnarchistBookClub #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

A year after Helene, river guides in Appalachia are navigating a new world

The first tourist season since the storm reveals how much the river and livelihoods have changed.

#HurricaneHelene #Asheville #AVL

https://grist.org/extreme-weather/a-year-after-helene-river-guides-in-appalachia-are-navigating-a-new-world/

CAVA on Swannanoa River Road officially reopens after Helene

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Swannanoa River Road’s CAVA location officially reopened on Wednesday, J…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #MediterraneanCuisine #Asheville #Cava #CommunityDay #donations #HurricaneHelene #Mediterranean #mediterraneancuisine #Recoveryefforts #SwannanoaRiverRoad
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2135427/cava-on-swannanoa-river-road-officially-reopens-after-helene/

CAVA on Swannanoa River Road officially reopens after Helene

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Swannanoa River Road’s CAVA location officially reopened on Wednesday, June 18. As Asheville recovers from damage caused by H…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanCuisine #Asheville #Cava #CommunityDay #donations #HurricaneHelene #Mediterranean #mediterraneancuisine #Recoveryefforts #SwannanoaRiverRoad
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2135427/cava-on-swannanoa-river-road-officially-reopens-after-helene/

CAVA on Swannanoa River Road officially reopens after Helene https://www.diningandcooking.com/2135427/cava-on-swannanoa-river-road-officially-reopens-after-helene/ #Asheville #Cava #CommunityDay #donations #HurricaneHelene #Mediterranean #MediterraneanCuisine #RecoveryEfforts #SwannanoaRiverRoad

“Helene, Milton exposed need to protect AM radio”

https://swling.com/blog/2025/06/helene-milton-exposed-need-to-protect-am-radio/

#AMRadio #DennisDura #HurricaneHelene

"We need to build a better world around values that we share. So we're going to build that ourselves." Triangle Mutual Aid • Hurricane Helene Response https://www.patreon.com/posts/triangle-mutual-128014766

#MutualAid #Triangle #TriangleNC #HurricaneHelene

Study on hurricane evacuations in Florida for #HurricaneHelene and #HurricaneMilton #FLwx #hurricanes #disasters

https://petrous.vislae.town/@xantha/114575176843662425

Angry Florida voters hold ‘empty chair’ town halls for absent Republicans https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/29/empty-chair-town-hall-republicans-florida #Trumpadministration #USsocialsecurity #RobertFKennedyJr #HurricaneHelene #KamalaHarris #Trumptariffs #Republicans #DonaldTrump #USCongress #USpolitics #USnews

At the end of last year, while reading Rebecca Solnit's "A Paradise Built in Hell," many of us encountered the idea of "post-traumatic growth"—a sort of inverse PTSD, where individuals experience increased resilience, strengthened relationships, and personal empowerment as a result of a traumatic event. Excited by this phenomenon (and our own brush with it), a member of our reading group has worked with a friend in clinical psychology to facilitate a presentation and deeper conversation about the power of community in uncertain times.

Please join us on Tuesday at 6:30pm for an in-person discussion and workshop that draws on academic research and our own experiences as disaster survivors to explore the idea of post-traumatic growth!

More information can be found at https://firestorm.coop/events/3381-together-we-rise.html

#PostTraumaticGrowth #PTSD #HurricaneHelene #MutualAid #MutualAidDisasterRelief #WeKeepUsSafe #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

Compound Weather And Climate Events In 2024
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-025-00657-y <-- shared technical article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #global #extremeweather #climate #climatechange #highimpact #compoundevents #spatiallycompounding #water #hydrology #SouthernAfrica #HurricaneHelene #heatwave #drought #risk #hazard #flood #flooding #marine #ocean #ecosystems #humanimpacts #naturaldisaster #naturalhazards #infrastructure #costs #economics #society #USA #Nepal #China #Australia #soil #rainfall #precipitation #storms #UK #damage #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #multivariate #monitoring #remotesensing #earthobservation #dynamics #mitigation #planning #watersecurity #foodsecurity #agriculture #crops #impacts

Next weekend Firestorm will be hosting author David Vaina for an in-person conversation with local Appalachian organizers about his new book "On-Ramps to a New Civil Society: Mutual Aid at the Edges of the Anthropocene," an autonomist reimagining of labor, value, mutual aid, and revolution. They'll discuss the present moment of institutional decline, where a political void has emerged in addressing our collective needs, and how mutual aid can contribute to the development of a radically new society.

Learn more and find copies of "On-Ramps to a New Civil Society" at https://firestorm.coop/events/3331-mutual-aid-revolution-a-conversation-with-david-vaina.html.

#MutualAid #DualPower #MutualAidDisasterRelief #HurricaneHelene #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

Found on LinkedIn: the Western North Carolina Housing Guide. From the front page: “Where do I go for housing repairs? How do I find trusted information about the recovery process? Where can I offer support? This digital guide serves to address some of the most pressing and frequently asked questions from people living in Western NC about recovery and rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/03/western-north-carolina-housing-guide/

Navigating Devastation: #GIS Aids #HurricaneHelene Response https://tinyurl.com/eb4vuhv6

#hurricane #EmergencyResponse #govtech #NorthCarolina #NC #DOT #esri #arcgis #NCDOT #GISchat #geospatial #mapstodon @esri @gispublicsafety @esrislgov @urisa

2024’s most costly climate disasters killed 2,000 people and caused $229bn in damages, data shows https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/30/2024s-most-costly-climate-disasters-killed-2000-people-and-caused-229bn-in-damages-data-shows #HurricaneHelene #HurricaneMilton #Climatecrisis #Environment #Worldnews