Avery Dull left her apartment in Hendersonville, North Carolina with her baby daughter a day after she made a TikTok showing brown floodwater from Hurricane Helene swelling beneath her second-floor balcony. Staying with friends two hours away and her life in limbo, Dull has been spending a lot of time online.
“Usually I’m in bed by 10 p.m. I haven’t gone to bed till 3 a.m. since this happened,” she told NPR. “I mean, I’ve been up all day and night just trying to find any, any information I can whatsoever. It has been consuming me.”
Having evacuated, Dull is turning to videos on TikTok to keep her up to date on her community.
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