“My porch was hanging on by one bolt,” Cronon said, recalling the next day when she returned home. “I realized when I was standing there looking at my house, ‘I don’t have a spoon anymore.’ Everything I worked my whole life for was gone.”
Friends and family, neighbors, donors, volunteers and Mountain Projects staff gathered in Bethel Village recently to celebrate Michelle Parker, a community member who lost her home in Clyde (twice!) due to the devastating floods from remnants of Tropical Storm Fred and Hurricane Helene.
Mountain Projects’ disaster recovery work in Haywood County after Hurricane Helene was detailed in a recent news feature in the regional newspaper Smoky Mountain News. Thank you to the Smoky Mountain News and reporter Lily Levin for the coverage! “I would listen to these calls. The National Weather Service would
