Hurricanes Helene and Milton may be gone, but they won’t be forgotten, certainly not by the hard-hit residents and businesses of the Southeast.
The immense economic devastation and loss of life wrought by those hurricanes—and, in the case of Milton, the tornadoes it spawned—will be felt for years to come in Florida and Western North Carolina.
The hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of residents whose homes and lives were shattered by Helene and Milton will never be the same, but they will rebuild them as best they can. That is, after all, the indomitable American spirit.
Meanwhile, nonprofits and religious charities, such as the Red Cross and evangelist Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse, are on the front lines of recovery efforts as partisan political battles rage over the allocation of federal disaster relief aid.
