all right welcome back and joining us now is lee brown she put together a relief organization

that is still going on and as she points out this is not over yet people's attention span

is very short and they move on to the next story or the next hurricane or whatever

right but this is still going on and it's going to go on for a long time and so we need to keep

people's attention focused on this and and fight against that and there's also a concerted

effort to keep this quiet uh i want to begin by telling you where you can go. The official

donation page is on give, send, go, and it is at We Love WNC for Western North Carolina. We love

WNC. That's on GiveSend Go. We'll give that at the end of the broadcast as well.

But thank you for joining us, Lee Brown.

Thank you very much for coming on.

Well, thank you for having me.

It's an honor to be on your show.

Well, thank you.

I want to, you know, let's talk about what is going on and the ongoing need here.

But I think a lot of people are just curious as to what it looks like on the ground, but maybe we could start with how this all began and how you got involved in this. What was it like what you saw

being there on the spot? Well, just to be very clear, I'm located about an hour outside of the

impact zone, but being a native North Carolina and having a lot of friends and family in the affected area, it just, it hit home for me.

And so when the storm hit and we're watching the flooding and the very early coverage, which there was a little coverage at the beginning.

I could see where this was headed.

And I have helped with natural disasters in the past because North Carolina does happen to get hurricanes on a regular basis.

And being in real estate, I think real estate agents often don't get the credit they're due for the way realtors just love to dig in and help their communities.

Well, my husband and I celebrated our wedding anniversary on September 27th, and this is the third year that we've spent our anniversary doing relief efforts.

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