Residents in North Carolina’s Watauga County are focused on survival rather than politics after Hurricane Helene ravaged much of the western part of the state.

They just lined up like two big Caterpillar dozers, and we watched them just take this whole farm out," Nix said, the sun beating down hard as if determined to dry up the remaining puddles. Nearby, a John Deere backhoe was just another chunk of junk,

Mountainside North Carolina towns have been “forever changed” and cut off from the world by the wrath of Hurricane Helene — with residents calling the destruction “absolutely overwhelming.” “Chimney Rock is just destroyed,