FILE PHOTO: Debris lies where homes were destroyed after Hurricane Helene passed through the Florida panhandle, severely impacting the community in Keaton Beach, Florida, U.S., September 29, 2024.
In neighboring Yancey County, the storm snapped century-old trees around the home of Taylor Shelton, 44. It took her husband two days with a chainsaw to cut a passage through the felled trees in their driveway and the nearby road so they could drive themselves and their three children out of the darkened house.
“It looks like ‘War of the Worlds,’ very, very big trees are down everywhere,” she said. “We saw houses that are just washed away.”
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