Asheville, nc – Two northern caroline Locals who survived Hurricane Helene In September, but suffered huge losses from Storm, he shared one phrase from President Donald Trump, who stuck with them during his Friday to visit the hurricane areas.
“It seems like he is truly worried, and … I’m glad he’s here, because it seems like we’re forgotten or never worried under another administration,” a Fairview Curtis Wright resident, who met Trump on Fridaysaid Fox News Digital.
“He said,” We are here and we will help you, “and I believe him,” Wright added.
Wright’s father lost his house and his little job, and Wright lost home as well as tractors and tools for his farm.
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US President Donald Trump speaks as he visited the neighborhood hit by Hurricane Helena in Swannano, North Carolina, January 24, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
“We’ve lost pretty much everything, and it’s hard to build when you don’t have tools,” he said.
President and First Lady, Melania Trump, arrived in Asheville, North Carolina, About 10am Friday, then stopped at Fletcher and Swannano. Trump spoke together with locals and politicians before heading to California on Friday afternoon to visit areas that were influenced by fire.
Trump’s flag published on a tree in Helene-Devastated Swannano, North Carolina, January 24, 2025. (Fox News Digital)
“We came to North Carolina with a simple message for all the people of this region that Hurricane Helene hit so much, and that message is very simple: you are no longer forgotten,” Trump said in Swannano before he heard personal stories from the locals group.
“You’re not forgotten anymore.”
Numerous people throughout Western N Most privately owned campers donated local and national charity organizations, such as Samaritan Pugica and Navy Cajun, who works with RV for emergency cases to donate used and new campers.
Others stay in camps donated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in certain places that are determined by FEMA.
Northern Carolines living in a series of private donated campers in Swannano. (Fox News Digital)
Holly Cape for an ambulance RV told Fox News Digital that the organization has donated 87 RV so far, but expect that number by next week to 104.
“I promised to return to Western North Carolina to help the people of the state, and today, here’s to fulfill that promise,” Trump said on Friday. “We have a lot of things in mind and get … a military corpus engineer.”
Tent and camper in Swannano, North Carolina. (Fox News Digital)
Reverend Franklin Graham, President and CEO of Samaritan’s purse, Fox News Digital said on Friday to appreciate Trump’s visiting survivor Hurricane.
“For the president to come today and shook his hands, talk to them and see their destroyed homes – I can’t start telling you what it meant to these people,” he said. “They were so grateful that they saw that the President of the United States appeared for them like this. It gave people hope.”
The Reverend Franklin Graham, the President and CEO of Samaritan’s purse, speaks during the visit of President Donald Trump Hurricane Helena damaged North Carolin on January 24, 2025. (Samaritan bag)
A large part of the destroyed landscape in Swannanoia looks unchanged compared to weeks after the storm first hit, but there are small signs of improvement: more people living in campers instead of tents or homes inhabited by floods, more structures on houses that are partially damaged, more The debris organized in certain piles, not beyond every house, certain parts of the land that are cleaned or neglected.
Progress happens slowly, and the locals say that the biggest need is currently still accommodation in the cold winter months.
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US President Donald Trump and the First Lady of Melania Trump cheat as they leave the Air Force one after arriving at the Asheville Regional Airport in Fletcher in North Carolina, January 24, 2025, to visit the region of a relaxed hurricane Helena. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Residents hope that FEMA will reduce some of their bureaucracy under the new administration so that people with emergency needs can faster access to these supplies, whether it is money, apartment or other forms of help.
“The undisputed Fema dropped the ball in North Carolina,” Fox News Digital Mark Harris, Rn.c. “My visit to Asheville with President Trump only confirmed that Fema on the way to renewal and give real help to the victims of Hurricane Helena. Obviously Fema has to reform – and I will work with President Trump in Congress to provide Congress Americans face the disaster help they need. “
Trump’s sign published on a telephone pole in Swannano in North Carolina, January 24, 2025. (Fox News Digital)
“The way it is, it is necessary to restructure,” Wright of Fema said. “It’s so hard to get money for immediate needs … We lost everything, and … almost everything we got were $ 750.”
“We humans are P—- ED OFF.”
Wright also noted that the locals were upset about “billion dollars abroad”, while people have current housing needs in North Carolina and elsewhere affected by Helena.
Hurricane of Helene has done the damage worth billions of dollars when she destroyed homes, farms and critical infrastructure such as roads, bridges and transmission lines. Parts of the highway that connect northern Caroline and Tennessee They have been closed since late September.
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More than 100 people died only from Hurricanes only in North Carolina, and the total number of deaths is more than 230 in six countries, including South Carolin, Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia and Florida.
