Hurricane Florence is currently devouring the coast of my beloved home state, but it’s not done yet, it will be here for days, visiting both us and our neighbors to the south. This is the biggest storm to hit us in decades, as you can see from the image above, the storm is quite literally bigger than us.

I’m fairly inland in North Carolina, so our biggest concern is flooding from the rains later on. I’ll be fine. It’s the eastern half of our state and South Carolina that will not come out on top. Please, if you have any means to consider donating to help rebuild and recover. I’m publishing this post before the storm ends because I know that storms like these slip out of national news quickly, even though it take the region years to recover.

To donate to the people hit by Florence:

• The RedCross
• Samaritans Purse
• The State of North Carolina
• Habitat for Humanity 
• The Lutheran Church
• North Carolina Food Bank

To donate to the animals hit by Florence:

• The Humane Society 
• Charleston Animal Society
• Greenville Humane Society