Across Eastern Tennessee, people are connecting on social media to help clear out ruined furniture, scrub off mud, and deliver jugs of water so people can flush toilets.
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“I just could not visualize, in this house, you know the furniture and the refrigerator floating up to the windows,” he says. But that’s exactly what he saw. A mark on the wall shows the water rose above his waist.Reeb took down wood paneling, drywall, a laminate floor, and all the furniture is gone. There is a strong musty smell in the air.
As people wait for more help, the kindness of strangers has been one small solace amid devastation few could imagine. Those not hit by Helene are connecting on Facebook, and creating an informal network to help their neighbors. On this street that has meant a steady stream of people volunteering their time and labor.A few houses down from Reeb, an orange forklift dumps a mattress and wooden dresser into a truck bed and smashes it down.
The owner of the house he’s at now is sitting on the front porch, watching every single item of her longtime home get carted away. Trudy Hall, 56, says the help she’s gotten from strangers started the day of the storm.Her next-door neighbor called to say the water was rising in her basement and told Trudy to get her dog and bag ready and get out. Trudy said she had no idea where to go. So the neighbor gave her the number of a man up on a hill, who took her in and “treated me like family.
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