Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Helene downed power lines and washed out roads all over North Carolina’s mountains, the roar of gas-powered generators is both unpleasant and essential.
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Pam Phillips has been running a resource hub for neighbors out of the Beans Creek Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in Bakersville, N.C. on Oct. 9, 2024. Footprint Project co-founder Jamie Swezey, left, volunteer Hayden Wilson, center, and co-founder Will Heegaard, right, review the delivery schedule before taking mobile power units to Helene-impacted communities in Mars Hill, N.C. on Oct. 9, 2024.
The Tipton Hill community building is being used as a resource hub with food, gas, and medical care in Tipton Hill, N.C. on Oct. 9, 2024. It’s difficult to hear the nurses, neighbors and volunteers flowing through the community resource hub he has set up in a former church for his neighbors in Tipton Hill, a crossroads in the Pisgah National Forest north of Asheville. Much worse is the cost: he spent $1,200 to buy it and thousands more on fuel that volunteers drive in from Tennessee.Turning off their only power source isn’t an option.
Residents who can get their hands on gas and diesel-powered generators are depending on them, but that is not easy. Fuel is expensive and can be a long drive away. Generator fumes pollute andNow, more help is arriving. Renfro received a new power source this week, one that will be cleaner, quieter and free to operate.
Will Heegaard and Jamie Swezey are the husband-and-wife team behind Project Footprint. Heegaard founded it in 2018 in New Orleans with a mission of reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of emergency responses. Helene’s destruction is so catastrophic, however, that Swezey said this work is more about supplementing generators than replacing them.
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