We would like to hear your memories of David Lynch, as well as whether you are attending today’s global group transcendental mediation at noon PT

David Lynch, the maverick American director, has died aged 78. He specialised in surreal, noir style mysteries and made a string of influential, critically acclaimed works including Twin Peaks and Eraserhead.

We would like to hear your tributes and memories of David Lynch – whether you met him, or appreciated his work as a film-maker. We are also interested in seeing your most Lynchian photos and hearing your experience of the world group 10-minute transcendental mediation, organised by his children for Monday at noon PT.

We’d like to hear about the disaster’s financial impact on people who have lost their home, business, or community – their mortgages, lost possessions, rents, insurances and investments

California homeowners and business owners who lost everything in the devastating Los Angeles-area fires now have to tackle their insurance companies to recover the value of their homeowners’ policies – if they are lucky enough to have insurance at all.

With estimates of the economic damage from the fires now expected to reach over $200bn, we’d like to hear what financial consequences people face due to the fires.

We would like to hear how people in the US are coping with the extreme cold, snow and ice brought by winter storms

The National Weather Service has issued winter storm warnings for parts of the mid-Atlantic as residents across the US brace for dangerously low temperatures as tens of millions of living along the east coast contend with a thick blanket of snow.

Marc Chenard, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in College Park, Maryland, projected that as many as 70 million residents will be under some kind of winter storm warning in the coming days.