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How the ‘chainsaw brigades’ during Hurricane Helene inspired a new wave of power tool users (opens the original)
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This story is part of Rethinking Resilience, a BPR and Grist series that explores the tools, skills and networks helping Western North Carolina prepare for future disasters. The day after Hurricane Helene made landfall, Shelby Treichler was determined to make it to the Asheville Tool Library. Electricity was already out and she knew the tool library, where she works as an operations coordinator, had a solar panel setup that could be crucial in the days to come. There was just one problem: a tree
Forsyth rejects data center moratorium proposal over legal concerns (opens the original)
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Forsyth County commissioners have rejected a proposal to temporarily pause new data center development. The vote comes as data center moratoriums become increasingly common across North Carolina. At least 50 municipalities have adopted them in recent months amid concerns about the facilities’ effects on local resources. But at this week’s Forsyth County Board of Commissioners meeting, members were reluctant to jump on the bandwagon. After Commissioner Dan Besse personally drafted a proposal for
How grassroots radio networks are helping WNC prepare for future communications outages (opens the original)
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This story is part of Rethinking Resilience, a BPR and Grist series that explores the tools, skills and networks helping Western North Carolina prepare for future disasters. Every Saturday night, William Walker has a standing appointment with his radio. The retired railroad worker runs a weekly check-in out of Fletcher, and with the help of a repeater installed high in the Blue Ridge Mountains, he connects with dozens of fellow radio enthusiasts who have turned the art of talking on the radio in
After Hurricane Helene, this community was inspired to learn how to use power tools (opens the original)
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The East Coast of the U.S. is being battered by a powerful nor'easter this weekend. But further south, lessons are being learned from recovery efforts after another major storm, Hurricane Helene. In North Carolina, the steady hum and roar of the chainsaw was a reassuring sound for many after Helene brought destruction to the western part of the state two years ago. Volunteers used these tools to cut up trees and help restore road access at a time when much of the region was cut off. Blue Ridge P
Years after storms, clean-up crews meticulously separate the sentimental from the wreckage (opens the original)
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Two years after Hurricane Helene, piles of debris linger in Jeannine Robertson's front yard in western North Carolina. Pieces of mangled sheet metal overgrown with weeds, motor oil jugs and pieces of decking with rusty nails sticking out. A porch umbrella. A tube of toothpaste, full of mud. "There was a big water hole, and [my grandchildren] were in the water all the time when they were here," Robertson says, choking up as she points at a shallow and shady tributary of the Cane River, which runs
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