The news is filled with the impact of record rainfall and violent storms around the country. This week several booksellers from California reached out to Binc.

This bookseller was frightened; the bookstore was closed due to the widespread electrical failures with no reopening date in sight.

Without work there would

— The bookstore owner opened the front door of the store to find water dripping down the walls from the apartment above the store. Books ruined, carpet sopping wet, ceiling tiles sagging. Hours of work are ahead to open the store for business. As they start calling employees to have

One small change, like an unexpected increase in monthly utility payments, can set off a ripple effect that overwhelms a family.

Last week our program manager got a call from a bookseller that came home to the unwelcome news that their home’s heat and lights would be shut off due

The last thing this family did before evacuating was to take a photo of their home; they didn’t know what they would find when it was safe to return.

After driving miles through traffic-clogged streets, they tracked the wrath of Hurricane Ian online and knew it had roared through their

It wasn’t supposed to be this way.

Other people are ill, get better, go back to work, and things get back to normal. That’s the way it’s supposed to happen. Sometimes, though; recovery from COVID-19 takes a little longer.

Sometimes it takes a lot longer, as it did for this