In the inbox I received this flood-issue special bulletin from St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Columbia, SC, which sits just a few blocks up the hill from the most catastrophic flooding in the city. Donations page is here, where you can specify “storm relief” when you make your gift.
Note on the parish page that they are also accepting donations in-kind, and if you are so inclined, non-perishable food and hygiene items do ship. You can be confident nothing will go to waste, as the food banks are moving into peak Thanksgiving-Christmas season right on the heels of the floods. The various churches and foodbanks work together closely in the Midlands, so as long as you send in-date, non-perishable, non-crushable items, they will get used.
4-H Club member storing food grown in her garden, Rockbridge County, Virginia. Photograph by the Extension Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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