What Life Is Like in North Carolina After Hurricane Helene

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

LLife is on pause in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Hurricane Helene devastated the city, located about 25 miles south of Asheville. Most people have not returned to work, and in some instances, there is no workplace to return to, because floodwaters swept entire buildings from their foundations. Hendersonville resident Alexander Potter told The Daily Signal neighbors have been the first line of defense in his community as people swung into action to ensure the elderly were taken care of and no one went hungry. Alexander anticipates the initial cleanup will take months. After spending several days on the ground talking with locals like Alexander and seeing the devastation firsthand, The Daily Signal’s Tim Kennedy says it will likely take years for the community to rebuild. Hurricane Helene really was the perfect storm dumping about 20 inches of rain in mountainous communities in the southeast and causing rivers, like the French Broad River in Asheville, North Carolina, to flood and become a deadly force, washing away roads, bridges, and buildings. Kennedy joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share the stories of people such as Dianne Messer, whose entire mobile home community was affected by the storm, and to discuss how the locals view the federal government’s response to the hurricane.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily School Podcast for Wednesday, October 9th. I'm Virginia Allen.
0:10.0	Hurricane Helane devastated parts of the southeast, especially North Carolina and the
0:16.0	Asheville community. This is a mountain town that's not used to getting hurricanes, but
0:20.8	we have entire small towns in and around Asheville just wiped out.
0:25.5	While the Daily Signals, Tim Kennedy was recently on the ground there, he had the opportunity
0:30.8	to meet a number of locals, to meet folks that have driven up from across the South
0:35.9	to learn how they can help and be a part of the recovery efforts.
0:39.3	He joins us here on the show in just a moment to explain what he saw. Stay tuned for my conversation with Tim Kennedy after this.
0:51.1	This is Rob Lewy from The Daily Signal.
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1:26.3	The Daily Signals News producer Tim Kennedy joins us now.
1:29.1	Tim, you are on the other side of the mic this time.
1:32.1	Thanks for being willing to be in studio you wear a lot of hats here
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