Dozens of people are living in the one remaining emergency shelter in Asheville, North Carolina.
Some of them are families with children.
The shelter is providing warmth from the chill of a mountain autumn, three meals a day, bathrooms and even a place to do your laundry.
Jean Gibbs told Channel 2′s Bryan Mims that she lost everything she owned in Hurricane Helene’s wrath. A swift water rescue team lifted her out of the deadly water. Her wheelchair was swept away.
“I mean, you don’t know until you lose everything you have, and you’re taken out in a boat. You spend the first two days after that in a towel because you have nothing to wear,” Gibbs said.
The Red Cross provided her with clothes and shelter. She has a wheelchair again.
Justin Thornton’s mobile home was mangled in the storm.
“The whole house, the trailer was gone. I found my dog and my cat. They were dead,” Thornton said.
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