Outer Banks Community Foundation efforts provide Ocracoke help when government aid is slow in coming.
As flood waters form Hurricane Dorian were swirling through Ocracoke, the Outer Banks Community Foundation was moving to create a Dorian Relief Fund. As Kip Tabb writes in this piece for the Coastal Review Online, the funds cannot be a substitute for government aid, but the funds have been invaluable in helping Ocracoke get back on its feet.
“Federal and state money to help Ocracoke and Hatteras recover from Hurricane Dorian has been slow getting here, but one Outer Banks nonprofit has been moving far more quickly than any government agency to provide relief where it can.
Jeff Byard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s associate administrator for the Office of Response and Recovery, denied on Oct. 8 Gov. Roy Cooper’s request for individual assistance for Ocracoke and other areas of the state Dorian devastated in September. A bill to provide state relief didn’t become law until mid-November.”
To read the complete Coastal Review Online story, click here.