‘A long road’: Single mom turns pain into positivity after Hurricane Helene wipes out community

One year after Hurricane Helene, remarkable stories of survival are still emerging, and Paula Hennon’s is one of them.

Hurricane Helene ravaged and ripped apart Paula Hennon’s riverfront community east of Asheville.

“The ironic thing is that I’m a hurricane researcher, I have a PhD in tropical meteorology, and my most cited paper is about the maximum precipitation of hurricane rainfall,” Hennon told Channel 9’s Jonathan Lowe. “It’s like putting a target on your house.”…

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