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https://www.furman.edu/about/president/wp-content/uploads/sites/205/2024/02/fountain.jpg20001377As I’m writing this the sky is clear and bright blue, like a typical October day in South Carolina. It’s almost hard to believe our campus, Greenville, and our slice of the Southeastern United States suffered the blows of one of the most devastating natural disasters in this area’s history. Collectively, we worried last Thursday and Friday morning, wondering what Tropical Storm Helene would bring, and we woke to towering trees tumbled like toys, blocking roadways, cutting off electricity and crushing cars and houses.