BOSTON - A group of 11 friends were relieved to land at home late Sunday night after a planned bachelorette party turned into a harrowing, life-threatening experience. Bride Kayla Donnelly of Walpole and her bridesmaids and friends planned her bachelorette party at a remote mountainside cabin in Asheville, North Carolina back in the summer - scheduled for the weekend of September 28. "We really aren't wilderness girls," Donnelly told WBZ.
"We had planned to stay in this beautiful cabin, and then go downtown and do things there." The girls weren't aware of the havoc Hurricane Helene would wreak on their party until it was too late. After the entire crew arrived at the cabin and hosted a pajama party Thursday night, they woke up Friday to a devastating scene.
No power, water, cell service There was no power. A tree had fallen on the roof, sending pieces of the ceiling onto the floor and rain coming through. The deck was destroyed.
"I have a pit in my stomach thinking about it, because like you got to the top of the driveway and you just looked right and left and it was just like...
chaos," explained bridesmaid Gina Costa of Bridgewater. "Like it was so bad. I was like, 'we're never getting out of here,'" she said through tears.
Hours later, things got worse. The girls all lost cell service, unable to get a call or text out to family and friends back home. "That was the worst part, knowing that I'm such a communicative person, and I'm always reaching out to family and friends and.