Elderly Couple Stranded With No Power After Helene Saved By Community

An elderly couple isolated without power for a week after Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina have been saved by a team of locals who pulled off a mission to get them vital supplies. Helene wreaked havoc across the North Carolina mountains, downing trees, causing rivers to surge and cutting off power to many residents. In Creston, North Carolina, a team of local helpers from Phi Kappa Tau fraternity at Appalachian State University flagged a lady named Ally had been trapped in her farmhouse, where she had been standing on her porch looking down the mountain helplessly. The group were working with Trent Woodcock of TM Woodcock Construction, and so they began to devise a plan which would allow them to tackle the biggest obstacle of all: getting a generator around the river that ran in front of Ally's and her husband Gary’s home. One helper, Ryan Lampe, decided to take a route around the back of the farmhouse through the mountains, which allowed him to bypass the river and allow the team to successfully deliver a much-needed generator. Trent captured the team’s heroic work on video, which then saw them use a pully system to carry gas across the river and up to Ally and Gary’s home.

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