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Helene Recovery, Day 18: River clean-up, Buck Creek Gap, and the golf course

Monday, 10/14 On Saturday, the community held a work day to make an initial sweep of the river for the most volatile debris. We...

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Helene Recovery, Day 16: Power returns, the search for human remains continues, and the Celo hurricane school measures the flood

Day 16 (Saturday, 10/12), 28 degrees at 7 am FBEMC (our electric cooperative) crews came down Hannah Branch yesterday and repaired lines...

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Helene Recovery, Day 13: lots of help has arrived

(Note: this post was subsequently edited to include casualty numbers from the Oct 9 weekly newspaper). 34 degrees at 7 am; I searched...

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Helene Recovery, Day 12 (10/8)

We are still without power, internet, cell service. Some of the powerlines on the valley’s main trunk line are live, which means those...