 A Hurricane Florence has come and gone, but the east coast is still recovering from its devastating effects and you can help the recovery efforts by simply donating blood. Hurricane Florence caused nearly 2,000 blood drives to be canceled in the Carolinas, making blood donations more important than usual. Donating blood takes about 45 minutes out of your day and the result can be saving lives. The need is always constant, especially when you have national disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes and fires. The blood gets used up very quickly and unfortunately if we don't have enough people come in to donate we don't have the blood that we need. To find out where you can donate visit the story on our website at lptv.org slash news. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.