Help Cory and August Rebuild After Flood

On Thursday, September 26th, I was with two of my closest friends, August and Eve (Cory) in their apartment in Boone, North Carolina. I didn’t go home on account of a flash flood warning, sleeping downstairs on their couch in their two-story apartment. I fell asleep at six in the morning, and by nine a.m., the bottom floor of the apartment was flooded up to my knees.

The entire apartment complex was covered, with cars floating away, breakers exploding, and propane leaking after explosions in the area. My two friends and I were trapped upstairs from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., with no connection to the outside, unbeknownst if help was even going to come. There was a point where we were told we would not be rescued, and we had to seek higher ground. These apartments are not a typical apartment building, and more like condominiums, and seeking higher ground was impossible.

The next four hours were some of the scariest of our lives, with moments where I didn’t know if we would be making it out even on the day. Cory and August are some of the most hardworking, beautiful people I know. They have helped me through some awful points of my life, and in less than twenty-four hours, I watched these two souls lose everything that they have tried to build for themselves as freshly independent college students. Things from their family that is no longer with us washed away and waterlogged, years of artwork, passion building, and identity finding gone within the day.

They deserve to have a home, transportation, and hope of recovery. The world seems impossible right now. These funds would be for them to bridge their lives right now, for things like car costs, housing costs, food, animals, etc. They deserve to be on their feet and not have to worry about money during such a tragedy.