It may take years to recover from all of the damage caused by last week’s Hurricane Helene landfall. Flooding and high winds conspired to down trees and power lines and tear up concrete and asphalt, making the thoroughfares that the people of the region rely on impassable. Over the weekend reports from North Carolina indicated over 400 different roads were closed in the aftermath. As neighbors, volunteers and road workers continue to clean up the mess, the people who can’t get emergency supplies by helicopter are forced to reject modernity and revert to the old ways of hauling goods, the old reliable pack mule.