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appalachiananarchist · 2 years

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Appalachian Flood Relief Resources

Last post update: August 5, 11:50pm

Eastern Kentucky has been affected by historic and devastating flooding this July. Somewhere between 35-40 people are dead. This post is designed to compile information for the relief efforts. It will be edited and updated as new information is made available to me, so if you see this post and want to reblog it, please click on my profile and reblog directly from my page in case I have edited or updated the post! Please message me with questions.

Monetary Donations:

Below is a compiled list of some donation funds for the 2022 Eastern KY flood relief efforts. Please look through these or look into any of these organizations to decide if you are comfortable donating.

Aspire Appalachia (website here)

Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky (website here)

EKY Flood Relief (KY state fund)

EKY Mutual Aid (Twitter here)

Appalachian Regional Healthcare flood relief fund

EKY Heritage Foundation here

Shop Local KY T shirt fundraiser here

Appalachian Apparel T shirt fundraise here and here

Volunteering:

If you are local to the area, please consider a donation of your time. There is a lot of work that needs done and a lot of people needed to do it. You will lose access to clean water, so bring your own. You will need to find your own accommodations if you stay overnight as we are housing many displaced residents already.

Hazard, KY is looking for volunteers to help clean out debris and houses daily. Crews are leaving from the Forum 101 Bulldog Lane at 8am, 10am, and 12pm. You must be over 18. This is physically demanding work. Just show up at the Forum before noon. Bring your own water and food. Long pants and boots required. Tetanus shot recommended. (And if you know a house that needs this service, contact: 606-268-0896)

Contact info for inquiries into volunteer roles in Breathitt county: (606) 233-3502

Perry County volunteer sign up here or call volunteering coordinator at (502) 693-6667

For rescue effort volunteering in Perry County, contact 606-216-6621

Letcher County Central High in Whitesburg is requesting volunteers from 8am to 7pm - simply show up by 8:15am.

Letcher County Central High Mercy Chefs volunteering information

Letcher County cleanup volunteering: contact (606) 733-5620

Kentucky Red Cross volunteer application. Search "disaster action team" to find positions that respond to natural disasters like the flood.

World Central Kitchen Volunteering form (scroll down until you see the entries for “KY Floods”). 301 Perry Cir Rd, Hazard, KY.

Appalshop archival recovery efforts volunteering form

Materials Donations:

If you want to donate items, one of the most desperately needed items in all counties right now is clean drinking water, followed by non-perishable food, cleaning supplies, diapers, formula, and personal hygeine products. Perry county specifically is requesting NO MORE CLOTHING donations.

Google doc listing various drop off locations

Aspire Appalachia amazon wish list here

Shop Local KY Amazon wish list here

Updated drop off locations for Breathitt County materials donations at Aspire Appalachia's facebook (currently: First Church of God, Breathitt County Hunger Alliance Panbowl Community Center, Jackson City School, and Vancleve Fire Dept.)

Updated Perry County flood response, including materials drop off locations, here. The ONLY major location accepting drop-offs in Hazard is the old JC Penny’s building (278 Black Gold Blvd). Perry county water drop off info: contact 513-312-8631. Perry county food drop off info: contact 606-438-9109.

Letcher County: Letcher County Central High School (435 Cougar Drive, Whitesburg)

Letcher County: CANE Kitchen (38 College Drive, Whitesburg)

Letcher County: Pine Mountain Partnership; see link for various drop off/pick up locations and times.

Further info on drop off information for Letcher, Knott, Floyd, and Pike counties here at Appalshop

Lexington drop off locations: Shop Local KY Warehouse in (1093 West High Street, Lexington, KY); Appalachian Regional Healthcare drop-off location at 2260 Executive Dr Lexington KY.

If you are part of an organization capable of medical supplies donations, please email [email protected] with inquiries. There is an URGENT need for replacement medical supplies!

#appalachia #east kentucky #flood relief #2022 Flood #mutual aid #fundraiser #donations

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gammija · 5 months

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i keep constructing elaborate political speeches in my mind. as if somehow if i could just talk to pvv-voters compellingly enough, explain to all of em why this is moronic on every level, they'd all suddenly find out that they're actually leftists at heart who just heard a few facts wrong

#as if the racism is an accident instead of the driving force #i spent too long looking at twitter replies and there are a lot of people who voted for wilders so obviously a lot of different types too #theres the naive ones who genuinely seem to regard politics as kind of a game thats being played to the sidelines #you cheer for your team but it doesn't ACTUALLY have an effect on reality. So stop complaining! cheer up!#theres the dumb ones who 'just wanted something different' and who thought 'well the Left screwed things up'#- weve had a centrist/right government for over a decade -#'so lets try the right ¯\_(ツ)_/¯'#and then theres just the unapologetically islamophobic who DEFINITELY are NOT racist~#they júst want all brown people to go back to 'their own' country #and if you call thát racist! well then! you are protecting the fundamental rights of muslims right to religion so obviously you also suppor #extremist governments in the middle east! and those are also discriminatory! which somehow makes the pvv nót discriminatory even though #they're drawing a direct comparison between themselves and these extremist governments! so there!#... anyways #very very very minor point but this also once again strengthens my resolve to not reblog or dive into every terrible news story from #usamerican politics despite how guilt-trippy posts about them get;#cause the only people on tumblr ive seen reblog aaanything at all about these results are dutch themselves #ik its not like we have a similar influence to the entire usa at all. but neither does random kentucky county elected official number 9 and #i still hear about them all the time #it makes sense for the circles im in dont get me wrong. just annoying.#joos yaps #delete later

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alive-ontheinside · 2 years

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As I have fallen down a Sandman rabbit hole, someone should really ask Neil gaiman if he and the rest of the sandman crew expected Boyd Holbrook as the serial killing nightmare to become as big of a hit as he has. Every person probably figured Tom Sturridge would be a hit but I know I didn’t see Boyd as the Corinthian becoming the fan favourite.

#Boyd plays the shit out of this role #a serial killing eyeball eating nightmare should not be this charismatic or as hot as he is #it’s the half smirk he constantly does #also the southern accent #the southern accent has me swooning #you can take the boy out of east Kentucky but you can’t take the east Kentucky out of the boy #(I’m originally from Kentucky so I get it)#he’s become the new blorbo #the sandman #the corinthian #boyd holbrook

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taylorparks187 · 2 years

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Beautiful October

#Cumberland Gap #Tennessee #Virginia #Kentucky #State Park #East Tennessee #farm #mountains #Autumn #October #Fall #deer #cannon

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don-lichterman · 2 years

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Severe storm threat includes Kentucky as heat in the Northwest shifts east - CNN

Severe storm threat includes Kentucky as heat in the Northwest shifts east – CNN

Severe storm threat includes Kentucky as heat in the Northwest shifts east CNN Source link

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#CNN #East #Heat #includes #Kentucky #Northwest #Severe #Severe storm threat includes Kentucky as heat in the Northwest shifts east - CNN Video #shifts #Storm #threat #Weather

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lostjulys · 2 years

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good morninnnnng how r we alll. i've got radiation baby teenage fallout queen stuck in my hea.d.

#also u know what else i miss abt the east coast???? normal sunday hours for shit.#...still better than that fucking. corner of kentucky we were in where literally everything was closed at 3pm on a tuesday.#dot text

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deitograf · 2 years

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Appalachia/On The Border of Tennessee and Kentucky (USGS, 1963)

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clamorybus · 5 months

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tbh i can't fault non-Americans for getting our geography wrong because i constantly mess it up

#i always forget that ohio and kentucky border each other or minnesota is right next to canada #i always think nebraska is where nevada is on the map #i only know the east coast so well because i live here #and tbh anything outside new england is still pretty hazy #and i forget that maine is right there #like its about the same distance for us to drive to hampton beach new hampshire #that it is to drive to old orchard beach maine #and its the same distance for us to drive to NYC as it is to drive into quebec canada #its a big country! is what i'm saying #and geography is important ofc but on average i don't think much about it #unless i'm plotting something i'm writing yknow?

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lcandothisallday · 1 year

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I felt thattttt because especially here, Louisville and KY are such random places to mention 💀💀💀 my head does a full 360 when I hear it - ⛽️

EXACTLY LOLL. before jack i used to think kentucky was alabama adjacent and gave me hillbilly/redneck vibes💀😭😂

#i don’t actually know what kentucky is LOL. anything that isn’t deliberately the east coast confuses me lol #⛽️ anon

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mostlyclimatechangeweatherlog · 1 year

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Buckle up - it’s a nasty one.

#tennessee #kentucky #georgia #louisiana #mississippi #ohio #south East #USA #tornado #severe storm #hail #ryan hall #storm chaser

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appalachiananarchist · 2 years

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There is severe flash flooding in east Kentucky. Many homes have been lost and many roads/bridges are washed away. Many folks are stranded without power, communication, or safe water.

The national guard is providing rescues in the region. If you need resources or emergency shelter, you can contact the Red Cross for guidance. Various numbers I have been given to reach them include: 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767), 606-497-5391, and 606-629-3344.

The Red Cross has open emergency shelters at the following locations:

Breathitt County Courthouse (Jackson, KY)

First Presbyterian Church (Hazard, KY)

Shelby Valley High School (Pikeville, KY)

Floyd County Community Center (Langley, KY)

Mountain Comprehensive Health (Whitesburg, KY)

I believe the east and west Perry elementary schools are also currently operating as emergency shelters, and should have food, clothing, toiletries, etc.

Donations to a crisis fund HERE. You can specify affected counties or “flood relief” in the additional notes.

You can get further updates at the KY Red Cross Twitter page HERE

I apologize if any of this information is messy or outdated. I am trying to compile as much as I can from as many different sources as possible.

#appalachia #east kentucky #flood relief

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zvaigzdelasas · 3 months

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Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle tonight are lambasting the Biden administration for not getting Congressional approval before moving ahead with military strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen.[...]

“The President needs to come to Congress before launching a strike against the Houthis in Yemen and involving us in another middle east conflict. That is Article I of the Constitution. I will stand up for that regardless of whether a Democrat or Republican is in the White House,” posted California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna on X, just as news was breaking that the strikes were in progress. Some 30 minutes earlier, there were reports that Congressional leaders were given a heads up that the strikes were a go.

“Only Congress has the power to declare war,” posted Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie. “I have to give credit to @RepRoKhanna here for sticking to his principles, as very few are willing to make this statement while their party is in the White House.”[...]

“@POTUS is violating Article I of the Constitution by carrying out airstrikes in Yemen without congressional approval,” charged Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib. “The American people are tired of endless war.” Democratic Reps. Cori Bush, Val Hoyle, Mark Pocan, and Pramila Jayapal weighed in similarly as of 9 p.m. tonight.

On the Republican side, Sen. Mike Lee, who has often crossed the aisle on war powers issues, also gave Khanna a boost. “The Constitution matters, regardless of party affiliation.”

"The Constitution is clear, only Congress has the power to declare war. President Biden must come to Congress and ask us to authorize this act of war," posted Florida Republican Rep. Anna Luna.[...]

“These attacks have endangered U.S. personnel, civilian mariners, and our partners, jeopardized trade, and threatened freedom of navigation,” Biden said. “I will not hesitate to direct further measures to protect our people and the free flow of international commerce as necessary.”

The Houthis have said they would continue the attacks until “crimes in Gaza stop and food, medicines and fuel are allowed to reach its besieged population.” The Biden administration, which has not supported a ceasefire in Gaza, said it would hit back hard if the Houthis did not stand down. After a particularly heavy volley of drones and rockets on Tuesday, the administration made its move.

This has a lot of analysts worried about escalation — something the Biden administration said it didn't want. "If the objective is to stop Houthi attacks without escalating matters toward a full war, then bombing them has proven quite inefficient in the past. Just ask the the Saudis," said the Quincy Institute's Trita Parsi, on X, referring to the Yemen civil war in which the Houthis gained major victories despite routine missile bombardments from U.S.-backed Saudi Arabia.

"Moreover, bombing them very likely will escalate matters, which means that not only will the attacks not be stopped, but the broader war that Biden [allegedly] seeks to prevent will likely become a reality."

12 Jan 24

#quincy's hit & miss but theyve got some strong authors #vlahos here's also a good follow #at least far above average #picture here's also from akrotiri

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lucasoothingrelaxation · 1 year

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