Nearly a month after Hurricane Helene struck western North Carolina, locals are sleeping in tents where homes once stood, and volunteers from across the U.S. are helping.
There are plenty of hotel-worthy amenities, including WiFi, a TV, a hair dryer, hot water, a washing machine and dryer and even bed linen. The tent-al, which is also listed on Booking.com ...
Laminated and taped to wooden stakes, small signs poked out of a strip of grass along a road in Kamas, decorated with hand-drawn pictures of fire engines and coloring pages of cartoon firefighters.
Those extra shelter beds will have a “spillover” effect, drawing people to where tents are already pitched in parks in Ward 3, Coun. Nrinder Nann says.