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Essential items and donations are being sent over to Smith Island after an F-1 tornado hit Rhodes Point and Ewell on Thursday, August 4th. So far, the GoFundMe page has raised over $100,000, and people have sent water bottles, trash bags, clothes, and more to help out the locals. 

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Smith Island in Somerset County has fared rather well during the pandemic. The first reported COVID outbreak did not come until February of this year. The Somerset County Health Department was on the island Tuesday distributing vaccines to prevent any future outbreak.