One grim fact about Hurricane Florence: many people in rural North Carolina are getting better health care now from ad hoc aid stations than they get during normal times
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Also my bad; Harrells has 210 inhabitants, not 203.
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Salvation Army center in Goldsboro badly needs canned goods and cleaning supplies if you are localpic.twitter.com/Mrbxq4Z69m
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Poverty and hurricane relief interact in complicated ways. The Salvation Army has been offering hot meals twice a month through mobile canteens, so they were able to serve 1000 people per truck three meals a day during the worst of the storm's aftermath.
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On the other hand, after Hurricane Matthew hit, many local people were housed in hotels that weren't fit for habitation. FEMA simply bought out the cheapest blocks of rooms they could find, many of them in hotels used heavily by the drug economy
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A lot of the money allocated to FEMA for Hurricane Matthew relief still hasn't been disbursed. The inadequacy of the response to Matthew has in some ways helped the response to Florence. In other ways, nothing has changed for the better.
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I asked the pitmaster what makes for proper North Carolina barbecue — is it vinegar, mustard, tomato? “Doesn’t matter,” they said. “Just wing it, you can’t go wrong”
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Downtown Goldsboro has that ‘hit by a neutron bomb’ empty feeling characteristic of deindustrialized placespic.twitter.com/U5ZxdTTpzp
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Now we’re getting ready for a candidate forum at the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Selma. I’m going to guess that incumbent David Rouzer won’t showpic.twitter.com/oE2kXSa9V5
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Going to cut this thread so I can start a fresh one on industrialized hog farming (wooo!), but please take a moment to support Dr. Horton and her fellow Great Slate candidates. We're just 5 days from an absolutely pivotal FEC deadline. A hurricane hit her!https://secure.actblue.com/donate/great_slate …
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