On the last Thursday of September, as Hurricane Helene was setting out on a path of destruction from Florida to the southern Appalachians, Kim and Rod Ashby stopped at the home they were building in Elk Park,

More than a week after storms from Hurricane Helene ripped through the Southeast, hard-hit Western North Carolina is still recovering.

Residents across Western North Carolina struggle to restore electricity days after Tropical Storm Helene swept through.

Despite some residents around Western North Carolina getting power back, many more are still in the dark after Helene.

Heartbreaking stories continue to pour out of western North Carolina. In Avery County, one couple says they returned from vacation to devastation. Sunny and Lois Benfield say they’ve lived in Minneapolis,

Hurricane Helene caused extensive damage in the western part of North Carolina. See the map of power outages caused by the storm.

More than 150 search-and-rescue missions were carried out around Asheville, North Carolina over the weekend after the city was devastated by the impacts of Hurricane Helene. Thousands of people are still without power and cell service,

With so many voters displaced after Helene in the swing state of North Carolina, election officials are receiving guidance from a state that has done this many times before— Louisiana. Election Commissioner Sherri Wharton-Hadskey said Louisiana has had to implement more emergency voting procedures than any other state following disastrous storms.

Towns like Marshall, North Carolina, positioned next to the French Broad River, are working to clean up the mud caused by Hurricane Helene flooding. CBS News national correspondent Manuel Bojorquez reports on the situation.