08/01/2026
Hashtags for Local Community Groups
Here are hashtags specifically tailored to connect with those local Asheville and WNC support networks:
GoFundMe Update Draft (Day 21)
Here is a clean, raw, and powerful draft for your GoFundMe update. It tells the exact story of where you are, calls out the insurance/landlord nightmare directly, and asks for a volunteer hand with the heavy lifting.
🚨 Update: Day 21 — Long Days, Untold Damage, and Request for Help 🚨
We are officially at Day 21, and the physical and emotional exhaustion is setting in deep.
Here is where things stand right now:
🧹 Progress & Process (2nd & 3rd Floors)
* Progress: Most of the 2nd and 3rd floors are sanitized. We retrieved three more carloads of items that cannot be fogged.
* The Process: Every single item has to be washed five total times to guarantee we don't track spore contamination into our clean spaces or storage:
* Initial wash inside
* Second cleaning
* Third cleaning
* Fourth cleaning before leaving the house
* Fifth and final clean outside right before it goes into storage.
* Loading Strategy: Non-foggable items are going into our storage units first. Everything that can be fogged is being loaded into our 28-foot trailer, where it will be fogged as the final batch.
💪 Heavy Lifting & Volunteer Need for Sunday!
We still have a full day of work on the upper floors, including moving heavy furniture downstairs.
My poor wife is completely worn out from days of non-stop scrubbing and lifting. If anyone has some spare time this Sunday and doesn't mind helping move heavy furniture downstairs, we would be beyond grateful for the hand!
☣️ The Physical Toll & The Unseen Mold
Even after a month and a half of airing the place out with an air purifier running, opening up the closed-off closets and food pantry still leaves me with that horrific "itchy skin" feeling—like being covered in fiberglass insulation. It’s a constant physical reminder of what we are breathing in.
⚠️ Next Up: Downstairs & Ground Zero
Next week, we face the hardest part: moving downstairs where the real destruction lives. The air handler in the garage blew toxic mold straight through the system. That area is currently quarantined off, and we haven't touched the AC since we returned on June 16th.
💔 The Total Loss & Corporate Abandonment
Since returning home on June 16th, I haven't been able to work a single day:
* Fibrenew Asheville is permanently closed.
* My used car inspection accounts (like Steve’s Auto Sales) are gone.
* We have lost almost everything we own.
And through all of this, our landlord, Allstate, and State Farm have left us completely on our own.
I'm old enough to remember when you called your insurance agent and they’d be at your door in a heartbeat to help. Today? They just hunt for loopholes to deny claims, treating water damage like it's your fault, leaving you with an inventory form and a wave goodbye.
The last time a mold company stepped foot in our place was the Friday before the 4th of July weekend—and their water extractor never even worked the entire time it was there. (Meanwhile, our consumer dehumidifiers fill up in under an hour!).
🙏 How You Can Help
We still have a very long road to recovery ahead of us. If you can:
* Lend a hand Sunday with heavy lifting (DM us!).
* Share this update on Facebook or local groups.
* Donate to help cover our skyrocketing POD rentals, storage shed costs, and RV plumbing repairs.
Every prayer, share, and dollar keeps us afloat. Thank you all for not letting us fight this completely alone.
👉 DONATE & SHARE OUR GOFUNDME: https://gofund.me/961276c6d 👈
— Michael & Kristi
I’m creating this fundraiser on behalf of my coworker and dear friend, Kris… Alison lively needs your support for Standing with Michael and Kristi in Hardship