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Buncombe, towns launch coordinated long-term recovery planning after Tropical Storm Helene
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Buncombe County officials and municipal partners opened a coordinated long-term recovery planning process after Tropical Storm Helene, with FEMA community-assistance staff supporting a unified project list, a county survey through May 31 and a local recovery center to help residents navigate assistance programs.
Buncombe County and its municipalities have moved from emergency response into long-term recovery planning after Tropical Storm Helene, county and federal officials said at the Woodfin Town Council meeting Tuesday.
Rachel Sawyer, who leads recovery coordination for Buncombe County, told the council that Buncombe has borne an outsized portion of the storm’s damage: “between 354 homes were destroyed. Our, major, damages is, around 750, with over 11,000 homes experiencing some damage,” Sawyer said, adding that FEMA individual assistance has already reached large numbers of households. She said the county’s total assistance numbers were “pushing a 50,000,000” on the latest report she’d seen.
The county is pursuing a unified long-term recovery plan branded Envision Buncombe that would include a section for each…
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