Duke, North Carolina start collecting donations to help Hurricane Florence relief
Just days after Hurricane Florence battered the coast of North and South Carolina, Duke and the University of North Carolina have started collecting donations to help those affected by the storm.
UNC will start accepting select donations — like non-perishable food, water and cleaning supplies — on Tuesday at the Williamson Center parking lot on campus, and will be delivered across the state via the Tar Heels’ football equipment truck. The university will accept donations through Friday at noon.
Duke will be accepting similar donations through Saturday at the athletics ticket office. For every three items donated from their requested list, fans will be able to purchase $5 tickets to its football game on Oct. 20 against Virginia.
The Red Cross has also opened shelters at North Carolina’s Friday Center, and at Wake Forest’s Joel Coliseum.
Hurricane Florence made landfall on Friday morning in North and South Carolina as a Category 1 storm after peaking as a Category 4 storm. At least 25 people have died in storm-related incidents as of Monday night, according to CBS News.
University of Houston hosts supply drive for Florence victims
The Houston athletic department, nearly a year after being hit by Hurricane Harvey, held a similar drive for victims of Hurricane Florence, too.
The school held a drive all day on Monday at TDECU Stadium to fill up its football truck, which was scheduled to hit the road once it was full on Monday night.
“I know a lot of people came out to help last year, and I feel like we just need to return that type of favor,” Cougars point guard Corey Davis told the Houston Chronicle while helping to load the truck on Monday. “A lot of schools out of North Carolina came out to help as well, so it’s good to help people in need.”
Hurricane Harvey made landfall in the Houston area last fall as a Category 4 hurricane. The storm left more than 75 people dead and caused tremendous damage across the region.
Houston associate athletics director David Bassity said they weren’t positive where the truck will actually be going on the East Coast, but that they are working with multiple organizations to determine the area where they can have the biggest impact.
“So once we have a destination set we’ll get that word out too,” Bassity told the Houston Chronicle. “It’s looking like North Carolina at this point, but just with logistics we don’t want to just send the truck out there and make it worse than it is.”
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