Former North Carolina residents offer suggestions for best ways to help survivors of Helene
After narrowly making it back to Southern Oregon on one of the last flights out of Asheville, North Carolina, before remnants of Hurricane Helene touched down last Thursday, Ashland resident Ashley Brown is hearing devastating news directly from friends in the area.
“They’re not saying, ‘We got flooded,’ they’re saying, ‘It’s completely gone,’” Brown told Ashland.news via phone on Monday. Her friends were talking about an Asheville arts district, which she described as being vibrant just days ago, in addition to whole neighborhoods…