WCNC | Businesses offer help to NC communites impacted by Helene @WCNC | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Several businesses and organizations are stepping up to address the need following the damage done by Helene.
Zionville Ramp Co. is a skate park that sits on the state lines of Tennessee and North Carolina. The Trade, Tennessee, warehouse is a familiar to many in western North Carolina, but now, it's added something to its facility: Serving as the bridge for community members in need.
"They can't get to Mountain City," Ashley Galleher, the owner of Zionville Ramp Co., explained. "The road is washed out, and the Walmart in Boone flooded, and Boone is just chaos, and ... there weren't supplies to get. So I knew that the need was here, and I knew that we had the space for it, and I knew I had a team of people ready to go, and then more people have stepped up to the plate and brought their skills and created something that's really beautiful.”
The location of the warehouse is also key when providing the support to the areas.
“When people come in and say, 'My basement's full of mud,' 'my dehumidifier doesn't work,' 'my whole house washed away,' OK, let's document all those needs," Galleher said. "Let's get everything in writing and contact info, because we have people that are coming in as resources that want to help do that kind of work. So we're able, from here, to dispatch work teams and specialty contractors and other people who are volunteering their time to get out and get the needs met pretty quickly.” #News #Helene #Hurricane
READ MORE: wcnc.com/article/weather/hurricane/helene/trade-tennessee-skate-park-transforms-distribution-center/275-6eeb9b74-5dee-464e-8b2d-e7073a13626f
Several businesses and organizations are stepping up to address the need following the damage done by Helene.
Zionville Ramp Co. is a skate park that sits on the state lines of Tennessee and North Carolina. The Trade, Tennessee, warehouse is a familiar to many in western North Carolina, but now, it's added something to its facility: Serving as the bridge for community members in need.
"They can't get to Mountain City," Ashley Galleher, the owner of Zionville Ramp Co., explained. "The road is washed out, and the Walmart in Boone flooded, and Boone is just chaos, and ... there weren't supplies to get. So I knew that the need was here, and I knew that we had the space for it, and I knew I had a team of people ready to go, and then more people have stepped up to the plate and brought their skills and created something that's really beautiful.”
The location of the warehouse is also key when providing the support to the areas.
“When people come in and say, 'My basement's full of mud,' 'my dehumidifier doesn't work,' 'my whole house washed away,' OK, let's document all those needs," Galleher said. "Let's get everything in writing and contact info, because we have people that are coming in as resources that want to help do that kind of work. So we're able, from here, to dispatch work teams and specialty contractors and other people who are volunteering their time to get out and get the needs met pretty quickly.” #News #Helene #Hurricane
READ MORE: wcnc.com/article/weather/hurricane/helene/trade-tennessee-skate-park-transforms-distribution-center/275-6eeb9b74-5dee-464e-8b2d-e7073a13626f
