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3 Questions Inland Regions Must Ask As Hurricane Season Approaches
Hurricane Helene is a reminder that inland regions are vulnerable too. Here are three questions that non-coastal communities ...
Asheville still struggles after Hurricane Helene as aid drops and funding cuts loom
Eight months after Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina, parts of Asheville still look like disaster zones. Business owners ...
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Buncombe revives post-Helene health survey axed by federal cuts
The CASPER, Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response, survey identifies emergency and disaster response ...
Prescient Warnings About Helene Didn’t Reach People in Harm’s Way. Here Are 5 Lessons for the Next Hurricane.
After four months of, ProPublica found that the warnings about Helene were eerily accurate. Yet, local residents remained ...
EXCLUSIVE: Franklin Graham dedicates homes to Hurricane Helene survivors: 'God hasn't forgotten them'
Franklin Graham and Samaritan's Purse provided new homes to victims of Hurricane Helene, offering hope and support through ...
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Her Husband Died in Hurricane Helene’s Floodwaters. She Can’t Stop Thinking About ‘the Fear He Must Have Had.’
When Hurricane Helene struck, Zubila Shafiq’s husband, Omar Khan, was one of more than 100 people who died in North Carolina amid catastrophic flooding. Shafiq pieces together what happened to Khan in ...
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Climate politics, staff cuts ensnarl post-Helene forest cleanup
President Donald Trump's workforce reductions and push to undermine climate change and extreme weather protections pose new ...
Trump undermined Biden’s FEMA in North Carolina. Now the cleanup is lagging on his watch.
As a candidate, the president spread misinformation about the Hurricane Helene recovery efforts, convincing many survivors that the federal government was out to get them.