A family in North Carolina is devastated after 11 of their loved ones were killed by a mudslide caused by the flooding from Hurricane Helene.
The Craig family — whose ancestors first settled in Fairview, North Carolina, in the 1950s — was so well-known to locals that they nicknamed their group of neighboring homes “Craigtown,” ABC 11 reported. The family’s life in Fairview changed forever at the end of September when Hurricane Helene brought catastrophic flooding to the southeast U.S.
Several of the Craig family members who lived next to each other were in the direct path of a deadly mudslide caused by the flooding, according to ABC 11. Everyone who was in the homes at the time of the mudslide was killed.
“My mother and father, my aunt and uncle, my great aunt and uncle — I’ve lost cousins, second cousins, things like that, but 11 people overall from this mudslide,”…
