Katie Myers
Climate ReporterKatie Myers reports on climate in Appalachia through a partnership between BPR and Grist. She previously served as a climate solutions fellow at Grist. She also reported with the Ohio Valley ReSource and WMMT 88.7 FM in Whitesburg, Kentucky. Her freelance work has appeared in the BBC, NPR, Belt Magazine, and Scalawag Magazine, among others.
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What record early voting in Georgia and North Carolina says about the storm and the stakes of the election.
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Many storm victims lost cars, access to child care and their main source of income. And as the water crisis continues in Asheville – many workers are in a state of limbo, wondering whether they’ll have a job.
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Volunteers created a mutual aid hub in the small community of Barnardsville after Hurricane Helene. The experience, residents say, has forged a bond between generations living here.
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Housing Authority CEO Monique Pierre says team did the best they could and people who can’t flush toilets should “live somewhere else until this chaos is over.”
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The pastor and members of Swannanoa Christian Church are one of the many small institutions across the North Carolina mountains where neighbors are teaming up to meet material — and emotional support — needs in the disaster aftermath.
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In the initial days that Helene impacted western North Carolina, many people were stuck without the ability to refrigerate their insulin or charge their oxygen tanks, or were unable to hike out or wield chainsaws as others did to free themselves from their homes.
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Helene caused catastrophic flooding across the region, particularly in the French Broad and Toe Rivers. Here's what we know about possible contamination and what residents can do to protect themselves.
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In the first week after Hurricane Helene, a woman incarcerated at the Buncombe County Jail described a harrowing and desperate situation, according to her mother.
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Los derechos de los inquilinos después de los impactos de Helene
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Deaths were highest in North Carolina, but communities from Virginia to Georgia are living with dire conditions from the storm.