#swannanoa

[timeisancestral]

bee tree christian church, swannanoa, nc, january 2025. photo by me. we’re still recovering from Helene, months and months after the fact. please don’t forget about us.

[kimchicuddles]

Haven't had power, water, or internet since the hurricane but here's a comic from a motel I evacuated to... Speaking of which, I'm not sure if we even have a house right now so anything helps: Patreon.com/kimchicuddles Venmo.com/tikvawolf text reads:

Living in the mountains, I never thought I'd see my neighbors kayaking across the street with axes to rescue people trapped in attics...

Or a bunny float over on a piece of a fence to the hill we were on...

Everything still feels surreal and confusing in the aftermath while we try to salvage what's left in the muck...

But it's also comforting to see a generation of kids who grew up on the idea of "looking for the helpers" becoming the helpers.

[kimberly40]

Beacon Village During and After Helene- On Friday, September 27, 2024, Hurricane Helene unleashed a flood that destroyed over 24 homes in the community of Beacon Village in Swannanoa in Buncombe County, NC. EVERYTHING was lost in the flooding of the homes, several of which have been in families for generations.

[oldnorthcarolina]

Car decimated by Hurricane Helene — Swannanoa, NC. Taken the 27th of October, 2024, 31 days after the storm.

Please consider supporting the community this photo was taken in by donating to the hurricane Helene relief efforts in North Carolina.

[victusinveritas]

[whydotheheathenrage]

Swannanoa

[yo-aloe-vera]

BeLoved Asheville Searching for Space for Free Store Open To Those Affected by Helene

BeLoved Asheville, a grassroots organization that has spearheaded a great deal of the hurricane relief efforts around Asheville, NC, is trying to find space to open a free store where those affected by Helene can come and choose what they need. They write:

"We’re embarking on a mission to create a FREE Store—a place where anyone affected by the hurricane can come and find clothing and other essentials at no cost. We want this to be a space of hope and community, where neighbors help neighbors. Now, we need your help to find the perfect location!

We’re searching for a place to rent or buy in Asheville, Swannanoa, Black Mountain, Waynesville, or Barnardsville. If you know of any available spots or have a space to offer, please reach out! Together, we can build a stronger, more resilient community.

Let’s spread the word and make sure no one is left without the help they need!"

[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/

[franwlw]

hersandhers_ - A. War. Zone. Hurricane Helene is the second deadliest mainland US hurricane (likely to take Katrina’s place as *the* deadliest) in the last 50 years, and from what we’re hearing from friends, the death will continue to rise for weeks and then months. So many people are still missing. So many people are trapped without food or water.

[2toplibrary]

Faith, Please Have a Little in Me by swannanoa

(T, 4.5K, 1/1)

Katsuki glances down at his unconscious burden. Blood drips like ichor from Shouto’s colorless lips, falls from gashes to spatter the ground. A gutted vamp is a dead vamp unless all that was lost is replenished, and moribund bloodsuckers aren’t known for restraint. If Shouto fed from an extra off the street, he’d kill them—and shatter his half human heart. Katsuki would pour his own blood down Shouto’s throat if that would accomplish anything. But Katsuki’s not human, so it won’t. There’s only one port in this shitstorm. They need Deku.

Once upon a time, Katsuki strove to be the best at everything. He knows better now: No one can be everything for everyone. He can’t be everything, fix everything, for Shouto.

Knowing something doesn’t make it easier to accept.

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More Vampire x Werewolf fics

[timeisancestral]

if’n you follow this blog, you likely love appalachia, or at least the aesthetic of it that i cultivate on here. i am begging yall: love us here, yes, but please remember to also love us in-person. don’t forget about us. my home, WNC, has been absolutely walloped by this hurricane. they’ve been devastated, and once the media stops talking about us (which they hardly talked about us to begin with) we’ll still be in ruins and we’ll still need help. donate directly to mutual aid organizations and to small businesses who are trying to recover.

pictured: the hwy. 70 & hwy. 221 intersection in marion, nc, looking west towards the pleasant gardens neighborhood.

[ceiling-karasu]

Years ago I toured Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC. as a prospective student. I swear the tour guides must have hated the place.

They took all us HS kids to the smallest eco dorms in the woods and told us we would be staying in these eco cabins. Then, they walked us to the farms and agricultural area and told us about how the campus believed that labor builds ethics and character, and we would be expected to work on the farm for a set amount of hours every semester, in addition to community service (drive into Asheville for this I think, if not around campus).

They have more regular dorms, but we didn’t really see those. Yes, you had to work for no pay (not even a tuition discount and that thing was expensive), but not necessarily on the farms. You could clean, cook, pick up garbage on the walking trails, paint, and do steel and woodworking jobs as you got older.

But the way they showed it to us, it was like, here’s a dark cabin in the woods, you will be expected to get up super early in the morning to milk the cows and collect the eggs. Math test at 8 am.

Anyway, it looks like just the agricultural area was flooded, so they are fine.

[kimberly40]

Before and after Hurricane Helen.

A garage on US 70 in Swannanoa in Buncombe County, North Carolina

[bones-ivy-breath]

On the French Broad, near Asheville, N.C. and By the Swannanoa, Asheville, N.C., postcards from the early 1900s, from The New York Public Library

[plantanothertree]

Kamala still to busy what was it she said “We are Going to Be With Western North Carolina every Step of the Way “ yeah sure you Are Kamala where is the Military? Where is FEMA? Why are you ignoring this media? WHY ARE YOU IGNORING THIS KAMALA is it Because Doug is involved in the Lithium Mines and the Government steered the storm intentionally steering it into this area to cause this devastating disaster?!?!?

“My name is Lauren and I am a Black Mountain resident and I was there when Hurricane Helene hit in Western North Carolina. I have been wanting to make this video since the moment that I saw the damage in Swannanoa, but I haven't brought myself to be able to say the words:” Listen to this video. The Kamala Harris Administration does not care about you.

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Funny, you know what I realized? I went a few days after to help out and I didn't see any federal government, I didn't see FEMA, I didn't see any politicians... But then It dawned on me.. guess who else I didn't see... I didn't see any REPORTERS. I didn't see ANY legacy media.

[whydotheheathenrage]

Swannanoa, they say, is Cherokee for “beautiful river.”