Debris Removal Remains No. 1 Burden of Helene-Ravaged Counties - Hendersonville Lightning

Debris removal remains No. 1 burden of Helene-ravaged counties - Hendersonville Lightning

Work crews cleaning up after Hurricane Helene have removed so much storm debris from roadsides, waterways and other places that it would more than circle the Earth if you lined it up end to end.

Rebuilding Rural North Carolina After Hurricane Helene

In the first two episodes of season three of the Reimagine Rural podcast, Tony Pipa, Senior Fellow at Brookings’ Center for Sustainable Development, explores how two rural communities in western North Carolina, Old Fort and Canton, are recovering from Hurricane Helene—the most devastating storm in state history. To understand the policy implications of rebuilding rural North Carolina more deeply, he talked with Matt Calabria, director of the Gov…