Airbnb.org is matching people offering their homes with people who had to leave theirs. As of Oct. 17, the nonprofit says it has found free housing for over 1,500 people from Florida. Another 5,800 have received shelter in hurricane-hit North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.

Shutterstock Photo by Felix Mizioznikov After the destruction caused by Hurricane Milton many were left with damage to their homes and livelihoods. While water damage from floods or debris left from wind storms were expected no one expected the sand.

Water did much of Hurricane Milton’s damage in Florida — but unlike Helene just two weeks earlier, it wasn’t just from the record storm surge that swept over Gulf Coast beaches and communities. Milton was a massive rainmaker — overflowing canals,