Communities are reeling in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, which unleashed historic rain and flooding as it tore across the Southeast, leaving dozens of people dead and millions without power. Western North Carolina was particularly hard hit,

After making landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in Florida, Helene weakened to a tropical storm as it moved through the Southeast. The western North Carolina mountains were hit especially hard, with Buncombe County alone accounting for a third of the total storm-related deaths and hundreds more people still missing as of Monday morning.