Sam Perkins only had one thing on his mind when he decided to trek through the utter devastation left behind by Hurricane Helene in North Carolina: make sure his parents were safe. Perkins was ...
CHARLOTTE — Sam Perkins was in Charlotte on Sept. 26 when he spoke on the phone with his elderly parents who live in Spruce Pine, a small town in the mountains. Tropical Helene was already ...
“I'm still processing it all,” Sam Perkins wrote on Facebook Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Sam Perkins of Charlotte, N.C., hadn't heard from his parents, who are in their 70s, for 48 hours in the ...
Sam Perkins would walk to the ends of the Earth for his parents - and over the weekend, he nearly did. On Saturday morning, Perkins, 38, set out on a perilous trek, trudging through 11 ...
It had been 48 hours since the winds and rains from Hurricane Helene ripped through western North Carolina and Sam Perkins still had not heard from his parents. So, on Saturday morning ...
Sam Perkins embarked on a perilous trek to reach his parents' isolated home in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene's devastation. Roads were blocked by landslides and flooding, forcing him to ...
"While hiking up 226A, I met multiple people trapped by devastation in both directions of the highway,” Sam Perkins shared. As North Carolina struggles to get back on its feet in the aftermath ...