North Carolina residents contend with grief, lack of supplies as they rebuild after Helene
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🗓️ 18 October 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It has been more than three weeks since Hurricane Helene battered parts of the southeast. |
| 0:05.8 | The hardest hit state was North Carolina, where more than 90 people died, 81 people |
| 0:10.7 | remain unaccounted for, and residents there face a long road to recovery. |
| 0:15.5 | Laura Barone Lopez has this report from Asheville. |
| 0:19.8 | 42 year old Patricia Miranda has lived at this Asheville mobile home for more than two decades. |
| 0:26.1 | She's seen flooding in the city before, but nothing like Hurricane Helene. She captured this video on Facebook live. |
| 0:35.6 | Miranda says that day is still etched in the minds of her young children. |
| 0:40.9 | My little one wake up every day at the morning. |
| 0:44.4 | Mommy, let's go. |
| 0:45.6 | The water's coming. |
| 0:47.6 | So how can I explain it? |
| 0:50.5 | Everything is done. |
| 0:51.9 | Three weeks on, Miranda's trailer still has no power or drinkable water. |
| 0:57.1 | Nearby tanks are filled with water for showering and flushing toilets. |
| 1:01.0 | To make matters worse, temperatures in Western North Carolina have dropped in recent days, with |
| 1:06.7 | lows in the 30s. |
| 1:08.7 | My house is really cold because that doesn't have no insulation under. |
| 1:14.0 | So we have to wait. |
| 1:17.0 | But thank God we have where we can sleep, |
| 1:21.0 | where we can stay, and I'm able to cook for my family and for my neighbors. |
| 1:29.1 | I have to keep going. I have to be strong for my family, especially for my kids. |
| 1:37.0 | Late last month, Helene's fury stretched from Florida's Gulf Coast to the Appalachian Mountains. |
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