Communities are getting relief after days of being cut off from everything due to flooding and storm damage from Hurricane Helene.
North Carolina state leaders say critical supplies are starting to reach communities that were devastated by the remnants of Hurricane Helene.across the region, with hundreds still missing. At least 90 people are known to have died in North Carolina alone.Food, water and other needs are being airlifted by the National Guard into counties across western North Carolina .
"Here in Boone, there's a lot of people that are still cut off in this area and the surrounding counties who have been stuck in their homes for days. Road closures are all over because the infrastructure was hit so bad that roads are just wiped out, bridges are gone,” she said."For so many people, you're this far inland that you don't expect such catastrophic damage from a hurricane. So they just weren't prepared. They didn't know how to prepare.
Also on Tuesday, the organization used a helicopter to sling load food and water to twelve isolated families in Newland, North Carolina as well as delivered a generator and a Starlink device to a care facility in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The facility had been without power for nearly four days, and supplies were beginning to run out.
Another local nonprofit, Texans On Mission based in Dallas – is also in Tennessee and North Carolina with shower/laundry, flood recovery, mass feeding, electrical and generator support, and an incident command center. Four of their chainsaw teams also deployed to North Carolina this week to assist with cleanup.
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