In an isolated stretch of Fairview, Jennifer Horton and her husband, Kamali, clutched their two frightened children as they rode on the back of a neighbor’s side-by-side utility vehicle.
The initial hurdle was cleared: The Horton family had escaped their home, damaged by the onslaught of wind and rain from Tropical Storm Helene. But they still needed to navigate their way to safety.
Jennifer Horton, who was seven months pregnant at the time, recalls the “unimaginable scenes of destruction” she saw as their neighbor raced the utility vehicle across about 20 miles of downed trees and flooded lands before pulling up to Horton’s father’s home…