Fire at Twin Oaks!

by Raven

I’m postponing my usual month late update on Facebook posts to highlight four very recent posts, all dealing with how the fire on their property impacted the Twin Oaks Community. Jules at Twin Oaks asked me to feature this link which leads to the general fire recovery fund donation site.

The first I knew about this was when I saw Paxus’ post which I then posted to Facebook as well as reposting here.

Here is how I set that post up on Facebook, with an introduction of Kelpie’s comments (Kelpie is a Twin Oaks member):

Unfortunately, bad news and disasters do very well on Facebook. We had very high numbers (at least for us) and they are still growing. All statistics here are as of Monday morning (3/25/24) when I am writing and posting this. The numbers are still growing and will especially be much too low for the most recent ones (like the one at the end of this article that we published today).

For this first post, we got 23 responses: Facebook informs me that we got nine sads, eight cares, three likes, two wows, and a love, plus two comments and two shares. As of now we got 319 views (and as I said, the number keeps growing).

That was as of Friday. On Saturday, I posted info from the Twin Oaks Conference site folks. That site was devastated.

This was the post about the fire that did least well–but for anything regarding the conferences it did very well. It’s too bad it took a fire for the Community Conference to get some views. There were five cares, three sads, and two likes–and almost two hundred views. (And as I said, I expect that number to grow over the next few days.)

On the Twin Oaks Facebook page, they published an update, which I reposted on Sunday.

I added the picture, from Paxus’ article. This had very high statistics on Facebook, with seven cares, four sads, two wows, and a like, as well as a comment, eleven shares, and well over five hundred views. (And, again, I expect this number to rise.)

Finally, Twin Oaks also posted these dramatic photos of how close the fire came to Tupelo, their outermost residence and the one most endangered by the fire.