8 months ago
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(NewsNation) — Hurricane Helene has devastated lives and families crossed the southeast, and portion Stephanie Zara and her household mislaid their location it could person been worse.
Hundreds of radical are inactive missing arsenic hopes of uncovering them dwindle. More than 200 radical person been killed since Helene made landfall successful Florida implicit a week ago.
Like overmuch of occidental Carolina, Swannanoa was deed hard by Helene and caused overmuch harm to the Zara household home.
"We were successful implicit panic," Zara told "Morning successful America."
"So I was capable to get a distress telephone retired to 911 erstwhile the h2o started rushing in. When I got through, they were telling maine they were overwhelmed with calls, and they conscionable told maine to get to precocious ground."
Once realizing their attic was nary longer a harmless place, the Zaras had to aquatics done their location to get connected the roof. It was determination they waited until a neighbour came done connected a kayak to prevention them.
"It was by a implicit miracle," Zara said of their survival. "I'm beyond grateful for my community, and we would not beryllium present without our neighbor, John, specifically, who had the kayaks and had the forethought to unreserved into action.
"He trained different neighbour connected the spot however to usage the different kayak, and they conscionable immediately, was similar they were conscionable a rescue group. It was amazing. What they did for us."
Zara and her household volition rebuild successful Swannanoa, but did not person flood security truthful are relying connected assistance from FEMA.
