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You can’t see the floor at Micheal Danford’s home in Old Fort. It’s covered in mud – a lingering sign of the floodwaters that filled her home last week. Many of their belongings are waterlogged. “This mud is just on everything,” she said while guiding a WRAL News crew through her home. Danford said they spent hours shoveling mud from inside their home to the outside. Included in those piles were damaged belongings. However, they…

Family members rescued a Burnsville couple and their dog after Helene’s floods trapped them for four days. Olivia Cooner, her boyfriend Eli Shipman and their Corgi terrier dog are now staying with family on Topsail Island. “We are in indefinite displacement and figuring it out day by day,” Cooner said. Cooner said they got no notices to evacuate last week before the storm. They bought enough food, water and dog food to get them through…

First responders located the body of Julie Le Roux Friday after she went missing in a mudslide caused by Helene in Marion, North Carolina. According to family members of Le Roux, she was recovered Friday after days of searching in and around Marion. Family members of John Norwood, Le Roux’s fiancée, say he doesn’t consider himself lucky or a “miracle survivor.” Rescuers used a pulley system to bring him to safety over dangerous floodwaters. Norwood…

Many musical artists are planning benefit concerts to help raise funds for Hurricane Helene recovery in North Carolina. On Friday night, bluegrass group Gangstagrass will perform a benefit show at the Aria Center, 2609 N. Duke St. in Durham. The performance will raise money for the North Carolina Red Cross’s relief efforts in Western North Carolina. Tickets are $25 general admission and $15 for students. On Oct. 13, the Triangle Youth Jazz Ensemble and the…

Singer Sturgill Simpson, the Nashville disrupter who won a Grammy Award for his 2016 album, “A Sailor’s Guide to Earth,” on his property in Sewanee, Tenn., Sept. 12, 2019. Simpson, whose new album, “Sound & Fury” debuts Sept. 27, 2019, refuses to be what others want him to be. (Kristine Potter/The New York Times). Sturgill Simpson has announced a special benefit concert supporting disaster relief efforts in the state on Oct. 21 at Booth Amphitheatre. All…

Madison County is one of the many counties in western North Carolina ravaged by Hurricane Helene over the weekend. As residents in Marshall combat potentially dangerous dust lingering in the air and feet of mud covering everything on the ground, those in Hot Springs face the challenge of getting people in to move supplies. Several supplies moved in Thursday night, but now many in the town are racing against the clock to get manpower into…

There’s extensive visible damage, but the sense of loss for what remains unseen is equally deep and painful, as McDowell County has been devastated. “It’s unfathomable at this point,” Steve Little, Marion mayor said. “So much has just washed away.” He says it took just a couple of seconds. Steve Little has been the longtime mayor of Marion. “Major, major mudslides,” Little continued, referencing the destruction, including the yellow house in Old Fort. “It collapsed…

The town of Marshall is covered in feet of mud, and people are wearing masks because of dust in the area. Volunteers and people digging out their homes and businesses are also wearing coveralls, before the mud covers them too. “We’ve been shoveling pretty much solid since Sunday,” said Becca Phillips. Phillips said she and her family are digging out their second home. “All the furniture is destroyed. It’s all piled outside,” Phillips said. “We’ll…