When Hurricane Helene roared over the mountains before dawn last week, it brought a maelstrom of water that rose to the mailbox of Shelby Holzhauser's little white house on the banks of the Swannanoa River.
To get food and water, for days she's had to don a backpack and trudge past mounds of debris left by the killer storm as it destroyed everything in its path.
"There's no power, no water," Holzhauser said as her four-year-old son Carter clung to her legs.
Under sunny skies on Thursday...