Help Liv and Amanda Rebuild After Hurricane

Hi,

My name is Liv and my fiancé, Amanda, and I are victims of Hurricane Helene. I know it seems like everyone around us is at a loss right now, but if you are in a place to support or share, it would be so unbelievably appreciated.

We had about 2 feet of water throughout our entire home and lost what feels like everything, including furniture, our cars, electronics, sentimental items, and things that can't be replaced.

To make things worse, our wedding is planned on 10/12, and we are having to postpone and move everything around. So, on top of losing our home and our belongings, we are also grieving the loss of the wedding we've been planning for the last year and a half.

As if things couldn't get any worse, during all of this we were looted and Amanda's phone was stolen. Our entire lives were piled up in our driveway, and someone took from us. It's truly unbelievable.

If you are able to donate, all money will go back into putting our lives back together, celebrating our wedding in whatever way we can, and trying to give us a little normalcy. Anything remaining will be donated to cleanup efforts and other victims.

Thank you in advance.

original facebook post:

the last few days have felt like a nightmare. Amanda, theo, murphy and i are all safe and that’s all i can really ask for.

on thursday night my dad rescued amanda, our two dogs, and i out of our house. we had to climb through our guest bedroom window, and dropped into waist deep water outside of our home. it was unlike anything i’ve ever seen in my life, and more terrifying than any horror movie could make up.

i’ve spent the last two days throwing away pretty much everything we own: beds, couches, every piece of art i’ve ever made, every journal i’ve ever written in, every book i’ve ever read. my camera. my car. while all of these things are just things, it feels pretty surreal to loose everything you have in a blink of an eye.

and the material things are just the start of it - amanda and i’s wedding is in two weeks. we planned on getting married on IRB, but right now, im just praying my little hometown of indian rocks is okay. we are taking it day by day. yesterday i stared at the calendar that is still hanging on the wall in our kitchen and just shook my head at how everything changed so fast.

to make matters worse than they already were, someone looted amanda’s phone out of our front yard yesterday. they saw our entire lives piled up in the driveway and decided to take something from us. it’s truly been unreal.

we are okay, just sad, and traumatized. we know we are not alone, we’ve watched our best friends and people around us lose everything, too. i just can’t even wrap my head around it.

if you’re an abled bodied person, please get out and help your community today. we’ve been so lucky to have friends and family jump into action to help us, but we know not everyone is as lucky as we are. getting a foot of water out of your house is no joke. taking everything you own, that’s now full of salt water, outside is hard work. if you’re not able to help physically, water and food and ice are lifesavers right now. anything helps, really.

thanks for listening, or reading, or whatever. i felt the need to share our experience, community feels so important right now. love you, stay safe ♥️