Heat, Food, and Power Still Missing for Many This Thanksgiving After Hurricane Helene 

United States: As the holiday season starts, people in western North Carolina who lost their homes in Hurricane Helene are asking others to remember them. Many families in areas like Swannanoa and Burnsville, or in the mountains, are still living in tents or RVs where their homes used to be. 

” We have been taking campers,” Robert Pearson from the Cajun Navy 2016, a rescue group from Louisiana said to Fox News Digital. We delivered one just an hour before we’re doing this interview, and we have two more that we are going to deliver this afternoon.  

But people have been donating campers to us, and we have been trying in whatever way possible to assist. We have a list of people that need help.” 

As reported by the Fox News, Cajun Navy 2016 is a team of rescuers who appeared after Hurricane Katrina and aiming at assisting people throughout and after disaster. They have had volunteers on the ground, including Pearson, since September 27th when Helene battered the North Carolina mountains. 

When we first got here it was just crazy just wasn’t organized at all.” Yup, there was a complete infrastructure failure. ‘There were no phones, no electric, no water,’ said Pearson. Frankly speaking, people did not actually understand what to do. We had wound up in a little town called Clyde, and they had their fire department destroyed. For example, just one whole section of town there just had gotten wiped out there. And we stayed there.” 

The town of Montreat provided Cajun Navy 2016 a building to accommodate 30 beds, and when volunteers occupied all 30 beds, Montreat provided another building for additional beds, Pearlson said. 

They are still without cars, heating, or internet in some places.  

Even as a person I stand in front of it [compared to] watching the pictures it’s difficult to comprehend how worse it is. Katrina was done on me, and this is reminiscent of Katrina for me,” Pearson said. This is also true when it comes to the damage; the damage is every bit as bad. That’s just different because it is in the mountains, if move a hundred yards in this direction they will be alright. Instead, twenty miles down this river it is just sheer anarchy.”