Two years after Hurricane Helene, recovery efforts continue in Watauga County as additional needs emerge and previously undetected damage comes to light, though media attention has diminished.
Recap by left917 · read the full story at the source
Two years out and the damage is still arriving. Helene hit in 2024, the cameras left months ago, but Watauga County keeps finding new breaks in what it thought was whole, new costs, new needs. The initial wreckage gets the fundraising and the volunteers and the news crews. The slow reveal of what you missed, the foundation cracks that show up in the third winter, the infrastructure that fails quietly, that gets nothing but the people who live here and have to fix it anyway. The money dries up. The attention evaporates. The county keeps digging.
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