2 weeks after Helene, western North Carolina still recovering

Recovery efforts are still very much underway in many areas in western North Carolina two weeks after Hurricane Helene rolled through, leaving a path of death and destruction in her wake.

“It's, it's devastating … it's very surreal,” Carrie Riley said as she loaded her truck with boxes of donated clothes she will take to families in the more remote parts of counties impacted by Helene.

“We're going to be going today to the Avery-Mitchell-Yancey area,” Riley said.