(The Center Square) – More than 2,000 households remain in FEMA transitional housing as western North Carolina this weekend begins its 22nd week of recovery from Hurricane Helene.
Another 173 are licensed in the mobile housing units of the agency.
Money and volunteer help has poured in and has at the same time not been enough. Lawmakers on the federal and state levels continue to work on legislation to appropriate more. Interstate 40, a key commerce route between Asheville and Knoxville, Tenn., is scheduled to reopen to two-way traffic a week from Saturday…