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If you have a vehicle stranded due to a bridge washing out, let us know. FEMA is helping coordinate getting ramps in so that cars can be moved to the road. These will in no way be permanent structures, once the vehicles are across the creek, they will move those ramps to move the next stranger vehicle!
The Spring Creek Volunteer Fire Department is creating an auxiliary support team to help with events, fundraising,
We need volunteers who can help assemble large, chain link dog kennel runs. Also, many people are in need of flea and tick medication or collars if you are interested in donating those items. Contact Dr. Adam with Spring Creek Mobile Vet about either of those: 828-206-9846.
We are creating a list of people who want to volunteer certain talents and people who need specific help. We are doing this in conjunction with Hot Springs, and the website to fill out your information is hotspringsrecovery.org
Also, we would like to know if anyone is interested in fostering displaced animals. With the Asheville animal shelters washed out, there are animals in need of temporary foster homes until their family is able to find housing and take them back or until shelters are able to take them.
Repairs
Please inform us of any repairs you are making/have made to your place, especially if your insurance will not cover it. We will be applying to FEMA for unmet needs or repairs in our community. Even if FEMA denies your individual claim, or our larger claim of community needs, that FEMA denial will allow us to then ask the Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity and other large national disaster-relief nonprofits to help our community.
Financial relief
Debi Foster and Julie Mansfield can be available to make appointments with for filling out FEMA applications, Unemployment Insurance, and Disaster Unemployment. Disaster Unemployment is available for different reasons than standard unemployment: such as if you are unable to make it to work because your driveway bridge washed out.
Front the website – Disaster Unemployment Insurance provides temporary payments for people who, as a direct result of a disaster:
– No longer have the job that provided their primary source of income
– Are unable to reach their place of employment
– Cannot work because of an injury caused by the storm
– Were unable to begin employment or self-employment due to the storm
– Have become the major supplier of household income due to a storm-related death of the previous major supplier of household income
More information is available at the website: https://www.des.nc.
Please spread the word and encourage people to apply. Our local economies will be affected by this storm and the loss of much employment and tourism for years to come. You may not feel like you need this money now – but you may need it later, after the deadlines are gone.
Donation Supply Updates:
The SCCC has not ever/will not turn away people wanting to donate. We have updated Facebook and the Website to direct people to bring their donations to areas that need it more (saves us the volunteer labor, gas, time, etc. of redistributing it ourselves), but we will NEVER turn someone away that has shown up.
If you have UNMET needs, let us know, we can try to make special requests to organizations looking to help our community. We have been able to request specific hygiene items, specialty diet food, special pet food.
Area churches have opened up to give away from donated items and food. They are coordinating with other out-of-area churches to provide items.
The Flats Baptist Church – 13130 Highway 209 – will be open 1-6pm through Sunday; Monday 1-6, Wednesday 1-6, Friday 1-6,
Saturday 1-4.
Saturday 1-4.
Lusk Chapel Church – 16575 Highway 209 – Tuesday – Friday 1-5pm, Saturday or Sunday by appointment (call: 828-777-8627 or 828-230-2882)
Zion Baptist Church – 6030 Highway 209 – For more information, contact Darlene Huntsinger at 828-230-1370 or Tiffany Strane at 828-206-2360.
Meadow Fork Baptist Church – 123 Meadow Fork School Rd – For more information, contact Morgan and Darrell WIllett: 828-691-5478 or 828-284-9394.
Tuesday we took in a great deal of re-distributed donations from Hot Springs Elementary as they needed to clear out the gym so kids could start back at school today. We were able to coordinate with Buncombe County to redistribute a great deal of the baby products that are not needed in our community.
We are coordinating with Swannanoa and Green Mountain to get the word out for their needs, as well as redistribute donations to their needs.