Rebuild Our Road to Safety and Preparedness

Dear friends and larger surrounding community-

As many of you know, Western North Carolina has sustained catastrophic damage from hurricane Helene.

Whole towns have been washed away, flooding and mudslides, many are without water and power and will be for the foreseeable future.

We are among the lucky ones, and remain entirely grateful. Because we are on higher ground, we were spared flooding. No trees fell upon our house. We all remain safe and well. Power was restored after 5 days, and with it, our well water.

What was greatly damaged is the private road out of our home. It was washed away by a creek, stranding us for 2 days without water and power. The road has been temporarily secured, but must be rebuilt, along with the culver which was damaged, flooding our driveway. This will be thousands of dollars to repair.

Any support you can offer towards this end would be so gratefully appreciated. The funds will be moved to secure the safety of our road for future evacuation potentiality, and any remaining funds will be then funneled towards our preparedness for the future, including securing supplies needed to sustain us in the weeks and months to come, and to secure us in case of future emergency.

The damage to these sacred mountain communities cannot be understated. Our hearts are heavy with loss. Our communities are in great need of assistance as well.

We humbly thank you for any support you are able to offer.

Thank you,

Maré, Jeremy, and Dylan