Asheville (North Carolina), Oct 3 (AP) Isolated and without electricity or phone service since Hurricane Helene inflicted devastation across the Southeast nearly a week ago, residents in the mountains of western North Carolina are relying on old-fashioned ways of communicating. At the town square in Black Mountain, local leaders stood atop a picnic table shouting updates about when power might be restored. Alongside a fencerow, a makeshift message board listed the names of people still missing.
And mules delivered medical supplies to mountaintop homes. Also Read | Israel-Iran Conflict: India Deeply Concerned Over Escalating Tensions in West Asia, Calls for Restraint by All Sides. While government cargo planes brought food and water into the hardest-hit areas on Wednesday and rescue crews waded through creeks searching for survivors, those who made it through the storm, whose death toll has reached 179, leaned on one another -- not technology.
"We have no water; we have no power; but I think it's also been humbling," Anna Ramsey said as she and her two children carried water in plastic bags from a distribution site in Asheville. "It's been humbling ..
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Fallen trees left her family stranded for several days, so they've bailed water from a creek in their backyard to flush toilets and cooked on a propane grill. President Joe Bi.