FEMA money, private insurance payouts and lots of private donations have helped many of the thousands of people displaced after Helene’s historic destruction in Western North Carolina. The state expects $1.4 billion in federal block grants will in time serve as last-resort aid for disaster repairs, most of it for housing.
For now, many people are still not back at home, including Delia Lytle Bayley and her family.
Since Helene’s floods wrecked her family’s mobile home in Black Mountain, Delia Lytle Bayley has been living with her husband and 16-year-old son in two donated trailers on their front lawn…