This is the most significant natural disaster that any one of us has ever seen in Western North Carolina,
Shelter in place. All roads in Western N.C. should be considered closed,
It was organized chaos, but there was a plan, and we executed it and affected that rescue the way that it should have been done and as safe as we possibly could,
We felt like we had done what we could to mitigate that compared to what we had gotten with Idalia. But in the end, this surpassed completely what we had gotten that storm, and it was definitely shocking,
The kayak was my escape plan in case stuff got too hairy,
It was chaotic. We couldn't get to them in boats, we had high winds and water rushing around the hospital,
We were just out looking at five of the houses that we rebuilt, and they’re gone,
You can hardly get flood insurance out here. If you do, it’s so expensive that a lot of people don’t have it,
Every storm that we’ve had, it just keeps getting worse and worse,
The whole building’s gone,
That's just a true blessing
I expect there to be a mass exodus
I'll never do that again, I swear,
Old Andy seemed like he didn't care,
I beg you, do not go out,
Once the eye (of the storm) got to us, that's when everything started to intensify,
Helene travelled over exceptionally warm ocean waters in the Gulf of Mexico,
In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Helene, hundreds of search and rescue missions were conducted by state personnel,
We have got to start wondering: is this the new normal? Is it going to happen every year
We have a lot of talk about once-in-a-lifetime storm, but we had one similar last year,