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Jessica Chasteen
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Hillbilly Hope Dealer Born of Royalty 👑 & Heresy 🕊️ @Garden_Variety_Jess #GardenVarietyJess 🎥🎙️ #GardenVarietyBlog 💜💚

Yes that’s the Total Flight Solutions folks

I just dropped their websites. I think the aerial recovery group is already a nonprofit and can take direct donations and the other two have some kind of crowdfunding link setup

Thanks to everyone sharing the word about #hurricanehelene rescue and relief. People have asked what is the best way to support the region right now, and the answer is unequivocally donate to the helicopter volunteer rescue groups in the area:

-Aerial Recovery, a veterans led group out of north FL who have stationed in Asheville

-Total Flight Solutions, a volunteer pilot group out of Durham NC

-Happy Helicopters, tour group turned aid droppers out of Greenville SC

Our communities on the ground are gathering supplies, but these pilots need money for fuel to keep making trips in and out of remote areas and rescuing folks. They are the real MVPs. 👏 I’ll link their websites below.

Yeah NC is a swing state right? I’m not sure this is how the current admin will swing it back to their favor. I hate to think that they are “dismissing the deplorables” but that is certainly a suspicion among Appalachians.

Part of me thinks they’re downplaying all the footage because it’s so unusual even for the current state of the climate. Like did you see the amount of sand on the streets and in peoples homes in St Pete?? And then up around Newport TN they had river stones stacked up 2-3 ft high on top of their fields - as if it had been dumped there by dump trucks and leveled out. Like not only did the storm move water, it moved sand and stone in a weird way.

Just showing yall - I have an audience of 38k and not a single one of my last 3 posts about Helene relief got more than 1k views. If that’s not evidence of censorship, I’m not sure what is. Please share Appalachian voices!

I sincerely think they are playing it down so that it doesn’t become their Katrina or so that nobody asks why we continue to pump money into weapons of war for overseas. It’s criminal.

https://x.com/shanethazel/status/1841709284649783415

HMU if anyone knows helo pilots with a bird willing to go down to NC and help.

If you know pilots in the US, please share. They can contact me here and then via signal. I can get them with folks coordinating grassroots on the ground.

Please boost for visibility.

We are on the same exact page 👏 I’m going to talk to my local lifestar guys today and see what they are doing

I have the feeling this video will be taken down swiftly for mentioning the d-word (💀) so I’m putting it here for posterity and so that folks know what’s actually happening in East TN / West NC… https://video.nostr.build/57f5ab21ab06ced44df47126e9991bef4196e22c15c7cb2cd73c99e6f4f457fe.mp4

I will ask her! I know Drift does accept BTC for services 😊

For sure. We have friends in Asheville that we still haven’t heard from 🥺😣

If you know anyone still without power or water in the Greenville SC or surrounding area, my cousin’s business now has power and she’s opening up 12-6 today for free showers for anyone who needs one in the community! BYOT - bring your own towel! #yeahthatgreenville #driftgreenville #hurricanehelene

GM 👽 yall remember i was telling you last night about TikTok playing shenanigans around the #HurricaneHelene hashtag? Just reporting in: only got 800 views on that video in spite of very high ratio of engagement-per-view.

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