Hurricane Helene mutual aid mini-report from Raleigh

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created by [deleted] on 30/09/2024 at 02:07 UTC

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I turned my house into a drop-off location for neighbors and collected a minivan's worth of supplies in five hours. An outstanding effort from dozens of people, including kids from the nearby elementary school. Didn't have time to catalog everything, but it was thousands of dollars of supplies, from heavy duty totes and waders to baby food and bleach.

I took those supplies to the Raleigh United Mutual Aid Hub in downtown Raleigh. RUMAH is going to have regular donation times posted on their calendar for drop-offs at The Hub on Hillsborough Street. Look at the Google Calendar on this page: https://www.raleighmutualaid.info/hub.html[1][2]. This first batch of supplies will go to the Boone area...one of many devastated. Asheville is going to get the headlines but there are SO MANY NEEDS.

1: https://www.raleighmutualaid.info/hub.html

2: https://www.raleighmutualaid.info/hub.html

Triangle Mutual Aid will be making updates about disaster relief efforts here.: https://www.patreon.com/trianglemutualaid/posts[3][4]. Triangle Mutual Aid is a collaborator with Mutual Aid Disaster Relief who is posting regularly about needed items on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DAeI-lmS0sN/?img%5C_index=1[5][6]

3: https://www.patreon.com/trianglemutualaid/posts

4: https://www.patreon.com/trianglemutualaid/posts

5: https://www.instagram.com/p/DAeI-lmS0sN/?img%5C_index=1

6: https://www.instagram.com/p/DAeI-lmS0sN/?img_index=1

IF YOU KNOW PILOTS WITH PLANES!! Looks like Day One Relief is gearing up to start flying donations out of RDU and looking for volunteers. https://www.facebook.com/DayOneRelief/[7][8] During Florence they had a drop-off site at RDU and that was probably the most effective way to get donations rapidly all over the state. Operation Air Drop will be operating out of Concord starting tomorrow morning. https://www.operation-airdrop.com/[9][10]

7: https://www.facebook.com/DayOneRelief/

8: https://www.facebook.com/DayOneRelief/

9: https://www.operation-airdrop.com/

10: https://www.operation-airdrop.com/

Mutual aid was absolutely critical for the Hurricane Florence relief effort, and the networks we have today are hopefully still strong since that work! https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2018/09/19/pilots-nationwide-head-to-nc-to-help-florence-victims[11][12]

11: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2018/09/19/pilots-nationwide-head-to-nc-to-help-florence-victims

12: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2018/09/19/pilots-nationwide-head-to-nc-to-help-florence-victims

This is going to be a Katrina-level disaster with months and years of repair work, some communities never to return.

Hurricane Helene mutual aid mini-report from Raleigh

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