Inside the North Carolina mountain town that Hurricane Helene nearly wiped off the map

Vermonters rally together to aid Hurricane Helene victims in North Carolina

Having experienced two summers of devastating flooding, many locals remember the support they received from across the country and now see this as a chance to give back.

Photo: Aid for North Carolina residents affected by Hurricane Helene

FEMA looks to shelter North Carolina hurricane victims in immigrant housing

North Carolina officials are working with the Biden administration to allow residents affected by Hurricane Helene to move into a federally contracted school campus that has sat empty after being paid for to house unaccompanied immigrant children who cross the southern border. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it plans to sign an agreement with... The post FEMA looks to shelter North Carolina hurricane victims in immigrant housing app…

North Carolina Works to Give Hurricane Victims Voting Rights

The North Carolina Elections Board passed an emergency resolution to facilitate early voting in 13 counties in dire straits since Hurricane Helene. Buncombe is the only county of the 13 that went for Biden in 2020. That has led to fears of what Democrats might do. The arrangement has a certain amount of flexibility that […] The post North Carolina Works to Give Hurricane Victims Voting Rights – Hopefully appeared first on www.independentsentinel…

BEYOND LOCAL: Human connections bring hope in North Carolina after devastation of Helene

In the midst of the devastating destruction left by the deadliest hurricane to hit the mainland U.S. since Katrina, human connections are giving the survivors hope in western North Carolina

Missing People, Power Outages, Ruined Roads: Issues Across the Southeast After Helene

More than a week after Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Category 4 storm, state officials across the Southeast are scrambling to repair damaged electrical lines, roads and bridges affecting tens of thousands across the path of destruction. Helene wreaked havoc from Florida to the Appalachian states after making landfall on the Gulf Coast on Sept. 26. The worst fallout is still in western North Carolina, where, in addition to the mass wreckage…