Beside a lonely road in Boone, North Carolina, Styrofoam stood, balanced on cardboard and weighed down by a rock. Scrawled on it in faded black, yellow, and orange markers read the message, “I thank the good Lord for all the people at Samaritan’s Purse.”
Weeks after Hurricane Helene ripped through the area, helicopters circled above, animal carcasses rotted in the roads, and debris decayed, shells of homes and structures bent and torn apart.
The news cycle has now moved its focus away from North Carolina, though the aftereffects remain, and thousands of people still fight to stay strong and recover from Helene.
Many locals expressed their dissatisfaction with the Biden-Harris administration’s response, as foreign aid seems to take priority over these devastated communities within the United States.
Thankfully, since the devastation,…
