The American Red Cross of East Tennessee has been working without rest since winter storms hit last week. Now they need help from the public.

Michelle Hankes, chapter executive director, said the organization needs money, it needs blankets and toiletries to give to clients and it needs more volunteers in its shelters.

Twenty different shelters have been open over the course of the last week.  Some are still open and some have since closed. Each has seen anywhere between five people and 200 people.

Red Cross has an app you can use to help locate shelters. It’s called Shelter Find and there’s more information about it at www.redcross.org.

List of Red Cross shelters:

On Sunday night more than 300 people were sheltered in the Cumberland Plateau area, which suffered from heavy ice and widespread damage and power outages from downed trees.

A wide variety of Red Cross volunteers are helping out.

Here’s how you can help.

To donate money, call 865-584-2999. You may reach an answering service, but a volunteer will call you back. You can also visit their website. Please spread the message using #GiveBackEastTN on social media.

You can also text REDCROSS to 90999 to give $10 to American Red Cross Disaster Relief, which helps people affected by disasters such as hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, wildfires and tornadoes.