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Taylor Swift Donates $5 Million to Help Victims of Hurricanes Helene and Milton
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynold are showing their enactment during a hard time.
After Hurricane Milton slammed done Florida astir 2 weeks aft Hurricane Helene's destruction, the Gossip Girl alum and Deadpool star made a $1 cardinal donation to Feeding America—a web of nutrient banks, nutrient pantries and section repast programs.
"Thank you to the astonishing radical connected the crushed providing indispensable needs for families who've mislaid truthful overmuch successful this brutal disaster," Blake and Ryan—parents to daughters James, 9, Inez, 7, and Betty, 4, and lad Olin—told E! News successful an Oct. 10 statement. "Our hearts spell retired to everyone affected by the treble calamity of these hurricanes. If you're capable to get involved, cheque retired the Feeding America website for much info."
And CEO of the foundation Claire Babineaux-Fontenot expressed gratitude for their contribution.
"Their longtime enactment of Feeding America successful times of situation has helped our web connected the crushed before, during and aft disasters," she shared successful a statement connected X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, Oct. 10. "These funds volition assistance nutrient banks supply basal needs similar water, acceptable to devour nutrient and supplies to communities facing heartbreaking nonaccomplishment and a agelong recovery."
Blake and Ryan—who person antecedently donated to causes to assistance children successful Israel and Gaza past October, displaced families successful Ukraine successful 2022 and families during the tallness of the Covid pandemic successful 2020—weren't the lone celebs to unfastened their wallets amid hurricane alleviation efforts, either. In fact, Taylor Swift made a $5 cardinal donation to Feeding America up of Hurricane Milton's landfall.
"This publication volition assistance communities rebuild and recover," Claire wrote successful an Oct. 9 connection connected Instagram, "providing indispensable food, cleanable water, and supplies to radical affected by these devastating storms."
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"Together, we tin marque a existent interaction successful supporting families arsenic they navigate the challenges ahead," the connection continued. "Thank you, Taylor, for lasting with america successful the question to extremity hunger and for helping communities successful need."
Florida was devastated successful the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, which is present making its mode to the Atlantic Ocean. The tempest brought an antithetic fig of tornadoes to the state, chopped powerfulness to implicit 3 cardinal residents and caused astatine slightest 11 deaths, per a number by NBC News. From a crane crashing into an flat gathering to the extortion of the Tropicana Field being shredded, the assemblage is expected to consciousness the grade of the harm for a agelong time.
However, galore officials, including Governor Ron DeSantis noted that the tempest surge, which causes large flooding, wasn't arsenic extended arsenic antecedently expected.
"The tempest was significant, but thankfully, this was not the worst-case scenario," helium told reporters during an Oct. 10 briefing. "The tempest did weaken earlier landfall and the tempest surge, arsenic initially reported, has not been arsenic important wide arsenic what was observed for Hurricane Helene."
Meanwhile, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor applauded the city's residents for pursuing evacuation orders.
"I truly deliberation it's owed to Hurricane Helene," she said during a property conference. "When radical get to spot firsthand the powerfulness of Mother Nature, it's precise impactful, virtually and figuratively. And truthful I deliberation that radical heeded that informing and got retired and were capable to enactment safe."
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