Remember that scene in “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” where the Grinch realizes he can’t stop the holiday season from coming?
In this metaphor, Hurricane Helene is the Grinch and western North Carolina’s Christmas tree farms are the holiday spirit.
I hate the phrase “perfect storm.” But if such a thing exists, Helene was that in western North Carolina, which was already waterlogged when the storm churned through in late September 2024…