#Disaster recovery

[courtana]

We, Black Curatorial, Kwanda, Twossaints, Black Eats London & West India Cinema Corporation have come together to fundraise for people affected by Hurricane Beryl across the West Indies. As West Indian people it is imperative that we support each other and ourselves in the building back of our communities, this is a duty. Hurricane Beryl has devastated hundreds of communities in the West Indies. This is not a freak storm, this is a direct impact of climate crisis in the region - fuelled and sustained by overconsumption and emissions in the Global North. The ocean waters are 4 degrees warmer than expected at this time of year, this has directly affected the speed and ferocity of the hurricane at the beginning of this year's hurricane season. To understand what the importance of AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) is for Hurricane season in the Caribbean and globally please watch this video. The impact of this hurricane is very much being felt, "90% of homes on Union Island had been destroyed", according to Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves. We’re fundraising for people and charities across Barbados, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Grenada and those affected across the region. The money raised will go towards helping local fishermen in Barbados to buy new boats, support roofing and housing materials for people in Carriacou, Union and Grenada and well as St Vincent to rebuild their livelihoods and homes. We are working collectively to disseminate these funds across the region ensuring they reach grassroots communities and people directly. The Hurricane is now a category 5 and on its way to Jamaica. We urge everyone to pray for its weakening and for the people currently effected by Beryl's peril. Please continue to share and donate to those affected! If you have any questions please email us.

WHERE ARE THE DONATIONS GOING?

This fund exists to go directly to grassroots organisations providing support for those across the following countries: Barbados St Vincent & the Grenadines Carriacou Petite Martinique Union Grenada Jamaica

HOW WILL THEY BE PROCESSED AND ADMINISTERED?

We are working with Kwanda to help disseminate the funds to the existing groups they work with in the affected countries. Black Curatorial work across Barbados and Jamaica administering funds for creatives via the Fly Me Out Fund our process of sending money via transfer is already set up to support and facilitate this fund's dissemination.

WHO'S INVOLVED?

Black Curatorial Kwanda West India Cinema Corporation Twossaints Black Eats London

[victusinveritas]

[ahedderick]

Rescue and Recovery

My father's partner was originally from Mandeville, Louisiana, a bit north of New Orleans. After Katrina hit, they packed chainsaws, other tools, fuel, supplies, etc in the farm pickup and headed that way. Based on his description, years later, they drove as far as they could, until the road was blocked with downed trees, then got out and just - started chainsawing. He was in his sixties, then, but very fit. I'm sure there were many other rednecks and hillfolk doing the same thing (not to mention the "Cajun Navy" in their boats.)

I am hoping that, in the days to come, there will be a similar response to the devastation of Hurricane Helene. Robust governmental aid, of course - but also that type of private citizen response. The news from down south just keeps on getting worse every hour.

[moe-d-puff]

storm recovery fund

Hello! As some of you may be aware, my city was recently hit with a derecho with an EF1 tornado--essentially, all the fun of a hurricane condensed to about 20 minutes. 40% of the city was left without power for most of the weekend, and even now some parts are without power. My power came back on saturday, which is good! The cats and I were and are fine. The groceries I bought the day before the storm were not. My parents have ultimately refused to help so I turn to tumblr so I can have things like groceries through the end of June. I am asking for 150$ to replace what I lost! My ko-fi can be found here! my paypal is kajichan@gmail.com ! reblogs help a lot if you cannot afford to donate, or even if you can! Please share this around and get as many eyeballs as possible. Every little bit helps!

Thank you so much. 0/150

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Cuba goes immediately into recovery after Hurricane Rafael leaves the island

By Leticia Martinez Hernandez

Nov. 7 — As soon as Hurricane Rafael began to leave Cuba, the National Defense Council, headed by President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, met to evaluate the steps to be taken after the strong impact of this meteorological phenomenon.

We are going immediately to the recovery, with no time to lose, from the early hours of Thursday, said President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, when heading, on Wednesday evening, the meeting of the National Defense Council, in which the next steps were evaluated, after the strong impact of Hurricane Rafael.

[shisabun]

Man, I've been seeing some dumb takes online the past few days. As someone who used to work for an aircraft charity let me just say this: If you're a high profile individual the WORST thing you can do is show up to a disaster zone as soon as it happens.

Rescue organizations and local emergency response teams are going to be scrambling to get organized. Equipment needs to be accounted for and moved, safe zones need to be set up, personnel needs to be briefed and sent to various locations, communications needs to be opened, water lines and electric lines need to be inspected, hospitals need to be prepped. The list goes on.

And when you're a high-profile individual, those resources have to be put on hold to ensure YOUR safety. Instead of clearing roads for emergency vehicles, they'd need to be cleared for YOUR team. Airspace would be held up FOR YOU. Emergency responders would be held up to debrief YOU.

So if you're one of the people asking, "Where is so and so high profile person?" They're where they should be. Out of the way and on standby for further instruction from rescue teams.

Contain, evaluate, mobilize. IN. THAT. ORDER.

If you see a politician showing up at a disaster zone within the first week, they're a selfish a-hole who doesn't care that they're causing delays.

End of story.

[tragicbeauty1991]

Not my usual fandom content but I wanted to post here because I haven’t seen nearly as many people talking about the devastation in the Southeastern US from Hurricane Helene as I would have expected and wanted to make those who may not know the extent of the damage more aware of the situation from my personal experience. I don’t think people who aren’t living it realize just HOW bad it is.

This is a map showing the areas with power outages in the immediate aftermath of the storm and some stats on the rainfall.

I live in upstate SC, and we have been without power since the storm hit Friday. That means some of us have gone about a week with no refrigeration, no AC (it gets toasty down here even in the fall), no internet, no way of powering critical things like oxygen machines for those who require it, and no cell service in some places. We are slowly getting power back but the number of people without power is still in the thousands. Luckily, we do have a generator at my house and we didn’t have any major damage to the house, cars, etc. There are trees and power lines down everywhere, though. I heard about one older lady and her husband who had a tree fall on their camper with them in it… He passed away holding her hand while being crushed by the tree. She is in the hospital and will need rehab. It is getting easier now but for awhile was very difficult to get gas. People were waiting in line for hours. A lot of stores are still just now opening up and groceries are limited because so much was lost with no refrigeration. It was so bad someone pulled a gun in a grocery store to get fresh meat. We had a few places that had a curfew for awhile because all the streetlights and traffic lights were out and it wasn’t really safe to drive. But overall, compared to many, we are doing well. It’s inconvenient but not devastating.

These are some images from Greenville taken during the worst of the storm. I live about 30 minutes away from this area.

Western NC was hit MUCH worse. We were supposed to go to the Asheville/Hendersonville area for my anniversary this past weekend but fortunately we didn’t make it up there because entire towns were just wiped off the map. Chimney Rock Village, one of my favorite places to visit, is just GONE. Asheville was totally cut off from the outside world for a few days and only accessible via air. Flooding there was just DEVASTATING. Parts of I-40 and I-26 between NC and TN were totally washed out. People are reporting coming across bodies of those who didn’t make it out. At one point, over 1000 people in NC were considered missing…

Here’s a pic of the damage to I-40.

And here are some before and after pics of Chimney Rock Village and the surrounding area. Most of what was there is now in Lake Lure.

My church parish (I am Orthodox.) is working with IOCC to help with relief efforts in Western NC. If anyone is able to donate, please consider offering what you can. If you are not comfortable donating through a church organization, I’m sure there are others out there you can donate to but this is one that I know is legit.

If you find a group accepting physical donations rather than cash, these are some suggested guidelines.

Anyone else who has further info on how to donate or who lives in the area and would like to check in, please add your own updates.

[theboookwitch]

Wanted to post more mutual aid/disaster relief information that I've found from friends and organizations on the ground in NC.

The situation is more dire than any news organization is reporting. If you have the means, please give. If not, please share and feel free to add anything else you've found!

[nando161mando]

The hub Sarah and Nicole are co-organizing on Sarah’s land serves as many as 100 people, but these organizers are also helping to create additional hubs. “With that drop we just made a little bit ago to Swannanoa, we helped them set up one of the first hubs for that particular community. It was an apartment complex that opened up their little picnic area”. Just prior to our conversation, the organizers made a supply run that exhausted their resources, but they said the organization Southerners on New Ground would be bringing more supplies soon. “There’s so many groups on the ground”, Nicole Townsend told me. “BeLoved [Asheville] is a large organization that’s been moving since day one. They’re able to get big trucks in and set up at different spots. They have been trained in disaster relief for a really long time”.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/10/08/neighbours-as-lifelines-the-power-of-mutual-aid-in-asheville/

[etraytin]

"Linemen" - Zoe & Cloyd

If you have a little time and want to get a really good nitty-gritty understanding of what Helene did to Western North Carolina, get onto Facebook and check out the page for French Broad Electric Membership Co-op (FrenchBroadEMC). They serve customers in North Buncombe, Mitchell, Madison, Yancey, Cocke and Unicoi Counties, which were among the hardest hit by the hurricane winds and floods. For nearly three full months the linemen of FBEMC, supported by linemen from other co-ops around the country, worked seven day weeks to rebuild a spider-strand network of power lines that had originally taken decades to set in place. They went where the roads were gone; they went where there were no roads at all, they went by truck and helicopter and ATV and on foot to replace over 2000 downed power poles and return electricity to all the hidden hills and hollers that the people of Western North Carolina call home. 

Along the way they posted frequent pictures and updates so that everyone who was still waiting could know what was happening and that they hadn’t been forgotten. And amazingly, they put it all back together again. Looking at their outage map today, a map that was solid red after the storm because every single power transfer station was down, every one of the co-op’s 41,150 members has power tonight to start 2025. That’s an amazing accomplishment, worthy of commemoration. The linemen got through.

[webntrmpt2x]

“Misinformation is beginning to take a toll on hurricane responders and survivors alike, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Tuesday as another massive storm headed for the Southeast.”

“FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said the swirl of false conspiracy theories around Hurricane Helene is dissuading survivors from seeking help and hurting morale among responders.”

[victusinveritas]

[sadkidsunity]

please support

I am reaching out because I am at a loss, I know there are so many kind people in the world, and I am asking you all for your support in this devastating situation.

[brimarc-noel-llc]

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[manuelnunezmd]

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