Everything we do at DeWeather Cares is important, but perhaps nothing is as important as our Disaster Task Force.

The idea for the Disaster Task Force came from a spontaneous trip on September 3, 2021 to Waverly, Tennessee following flash flooding caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida. During that four day trip, we also went to Slidell, Louisiana and Manville, New Jersey, delivering supplies, food and money.

A subsequent trip to Mayfield, Kentucky in December of 2021 following a devastating tornado, further fueled the fires to develop the Disaster Task Force.

With this ultimate goal in mind, in September of 2021, DeWeather Cares became DeWeather Cares, Inc., following its incorporation as a nonprofit corporation in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. With this new milestone, work on developing the Disaster Task Force began in earnest. A team of volunteers began discussing what had worked on the trips to Tennessee, Louisiana, New Jersey and Kentucky, and what didn’t. Ideas were shared, thoughts passed along, and the groundwork for building the Disaster Task Force was in full swing.

The first test of the now official Disaster Task Force came in August of 2022 following historic flash flooding that devastated eastern Kentucky. Over the course of a week, the Disaster Task Force was on the ground and back in Pennsylvania assessed the damage, determined the greatest needs, and secured those items needed most. A week after the devastating flooding, truckloads of supplies, gear and equipment arrived at a distribution site established by the Disaster Task Force in one of the hardest hit areas, Knott County.

Over the next month, theDisaster Task Force took additional trips to eastern, Kentucky, delivering more desperately needed items.

It was this trip to eastern Kentucky that validated the determination to form the Disaster Task Force.

To date, since September of 2021, the Disaster Task Force has traveled tens of thousands of miles to areas devastated by some of the most historic natural disasters in American history.