🍂Katie Downs🍂

"ᑎEGᗩTIᐯE ᑭEOᑭᒪE ᑎEEᗪ ᗪᖇᗩᗰᗩ ᒪIKE IT'ᔕ O᙭YGEᑎ. ᔕTᗩY ᑭOᔕITIᐯE ᗩᑎᗪ TᗩKE TᕼEIᖇ ᗷᖇEᗩTᕼ ᗩᗯᗩY.

[Sedric Alfiere 🐶⛓️ IZIGENIA @SedricAlfiere]

I sang BIBBIDIBA!

My very first, and absolutely not the last. Make sure to head over and listen 🫶

🔽MV

https://t.co/wo2h2BZuI7

[AshleyMarie @AshleyMarieeS]

https://t.co/m1I9TTIsla

[robert @rfhirschfeld]

“How much space do wild things need” is one of the saddest, most impoverished understandings of life, common to many now.

[Ryan Hall, Y’all @ryanhallyall]

Tornado Emergency continues for Blytheville AR, Trumann AR and Gosnell AR until 7:45 PM CDT.
This is a LIFE THREATENING SITUATION, SEEK SHELTER!
We’re tracking this LIVE now: https://t.co/eLMuIdFHxr

[🇯🇲 Quinn 🌿🦍🌿 @__Quinn510__]

Men with daughters who voted Trump, yall are really, really bad fathers.

[Dean Withers @itsdeaann]

America, you have failed us all.

[Calling All Astronauts @CAA_Official]

If you voted Trump, please unfollow us, we make music about cunts like you, not for cunts like you.

[adi @buwygfiib]

and FUCK every bitch who voted third party.

[Governor Josh Stein @NC_Governor]

The North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund is live. If you’re able to give, please consider a donation to help North Carolinians as they clean up and recover from Helene. You can donate at https://t.co/yjrg796nrJ.

[Governor Josh Stein @NC_Governor]

There is a massive effort underway to get help to the people of western North Carolina including state and federal relief but we know there will be additional needs. If you would like to donate to the NC Disaster Relief Fund, visit https://t.co/yjrg796nrJ.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

Asheville is over 2,000 feet above sea level, and ~300 miles away from the nearest coastline. No place is safe from climate change.

We all suffer the consequences. We must all take action. We are all in this together.

[NC Emergency Management @NCEmergency]

⚠️ DO NOT travel to western NC. Rescue crews are continuing to work in impacted areas. Utility crews are also at work to restore power, cell service and other vital infrastructure. Keep the roads clear for them.

[Dhruv @dhruv2038]

I need people to understand something with the news coverage regarding effects of hurricane Helene. There is a lot more to the NC Mountains than Asheville.
Boone, Blowing Rock, Banner Elk, Vilas, Sugar Grove, Elk Park, West Jefferson, Black Mountain, Swannanoa, Sylva, Cullowhee, Brevard, Bryson City, Hendersonville, Cherokee, Waynesville, Burnsville, Candler, Canton, Spruce Pine, Chimney Rock, Lake Lure, Linville, Marshall, Maggie Valley, Newland, Grandfather, Beech Mountain, Sugar Mountain, Old Fort, Morganton, Marion are just a few of the cities and towns that have been flooded and/or destroyed. The counties of Yancey, Mitchell, Avery, Ashe, Watauga, Transylvania, Burke, Caldwell, Alleghany, Madison, Buncombe, McDowell, Rutherford, Polk, Henderson, Wilkes, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Clay, Cherokee, and Swain are devastated and in need of the same help, some even more.
Other counties that fall under various definitions of Western North Carolina include: Alexander County, Catawba County, Cleveland County, Surry County and Yadkin County. When these counties are added, they form a total regional area of roughly 11,750 square miles (30,400 km2).
This makes the region roughly the size of Massachusetts. Western North Carolina holds 11% of our state's population.
There are millions of people up there with no electricity, no communication, no water, and no way to get out or let rescue teams even know where they are. I am not taking anything away from Asheville and the utter destruction there or any other areas in NC that have damage. The level of destruction is unimaginable. But it's not one or two cities or towns that are in need of help.
This does not include the destroyed areas in the Tennessee mountains, Western Virginia, Georgia, or South Carolina.
Please do 2 things for me:
1. Donate to Operation Airdrop, Samaritan’s Purse, or Fleet of Angels (or all 3!)
2. Contact news media to get coverage for ALL of Western North Carolina. People need to know the full scope of this disaster so that more people can get desperately needed help. And so more people can be located because a lot of us have loved ones up there and we don't know if they're dead or alive.
These are our homes. These are places we raise our families. These are communities I work in on a daily basis. My heart breaks for everyone involved.

[Vic 🌮 @VicVijayakumar]

Didn’t realize how many folks have no idea where Asheville and these other underwater towns are.

I’m in Raleigh- 2hrs inland. Asheville is 4hrs west of me, up in the blue ridge mountains. It was unthinkable that a hurricane could wipe out towns this far inland & high up.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of surreal sculpture details 🧵

1. Water flowing over toes

[MatPat @MatPatGT]

But hey...that's just a theory. My final theory. Thanks for watching.

https://t.co/yEsCjS6hGX