OLD FORT, N.C. — Like so many people in western North Carolina, people have chaotic survival stories from Hurricane Helene.
WFMY News 2's Tanya Rivera talked with a resident of Old Fort who said floodwaters almost swept him down the river.
He thought it was going to take him, his home and his neighbor's home.
"Trailer slammed into my neighbor's trailer and we started riding them down. I just didn't know what was gonna happen from there to there. It just kept on as It was bobbing like a bobber, and it kept on traveling," said Rodney Stevens Jr. of Old Fort.
Trailers aren't designed to float, but Stevens said he woke up to his home filling up with water and being carried away
"About then another of the trailers was floating and it hit the tree..woosh! It started going to pieces," said Stevens.
What's left of a handful of homes is simply pieces and parts. His friends and family are helping him pick through whatever oddball things still remain.
Even with all this, he says he feels lucky
"We're the ones of us that did survive. We're trying to help clean up everybody's stuff that's in everybody's yard and get everybody back on track," said Stevens.
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