After Hurricane Helene’s deadly effects, many families are starting the emotionally hard process of rebuilding their lives. In North Carolina, one family is still grieving the loss of 11 loved ones.
Locals lovingly call the area where the Craig family lived in Fairview, North Carolina, “Craigtown.” According to CNN affiliate WTVD, more than 100 people have died in North Carolina since Hurricane Helene destroyed more than 500 miles of land in just 48 hours, spanning from Florida to the Southern Appalachians.
WTVD says Helene caused a mudslide that tore through Craigtown, destroying several houses and killing the people who lived in them. CNN station WLOS reported that some family members had to stand by and do nothing as water and mud destroyed their homes.
Losing one loved one is hard enough, but losing 11 at once is unbearable. Jesse and Bryan Craig, who are still alive, can’t even recognize their hometown as they deal with their sadness.
Jesse Craig made a list of all the people he has lost.
“I’ve lost cousins and second cousins,” Jesse told WTVD. “My mother and father, my aunt and uncle, my great aunt and uncle….
Bryan Craig told WLOS, “They saw it, witnessed it, and had to watch it all. Just the sheer, the water through the trees, the rocks, the mud, it’s amazing.”
Bryan told the station that the family had been to a wedding together just a week before the accident. Now, as family and friends dig through the rubble of what’s left of their loved ones’ homes, they are only left with their memories and the pictures and other things that made it through the mudslide.
Bryan said, “We’ll have some great pictures from that wedding and pictures of people who are no longer with us.”
Steve Runion, a friend, told CNN affiliate WRAL that the Craigs were “pillars of the community” and a “larger than life” family.
He told her, “They’d do anything for you.” “They have the heart of a servant.” That’s the best way I know how to say it… Their only goal was to love people.
WTVD said that the family members who still live in the area are working hard to rebuild what their cousins worked so hard to build since the mid-1900s.
Runion told WRAL, “They got a couple of wood stoves back from a couple of the homes.” “Those wood stoves are going to be used to make a memorial, which I think is cool.”
It says that family and friends have set up a GoFundMe to help with the funeral costs, rebuilding, and losing your job while you’re mourning.
Bryan said, “This will never be the same; this little area can never be the same. But we try to move on, to get on with life; I know they’d want us to.”After Hurricane Helene’s deadly effects, many families are starting the emotionally hard process of rebuilding their lives. In North Carolina, one family is still grieving the loss of 11 loved ones.
Locals lovingly call the area where the Craig family lived in Fairview, North Carolina, “Craigtown.” According to CNN affiliate WTVD, more than 100 people have died in North Carolina since Hurricane Helene destroyed more than 500 miles of land in just 48 hours, spanning from Florida to the Southern Appalachians.
WTVD says Helene caused a mudslide that tore through Craigtown, destroying several houses and killing the people who lived in them. CNN station WLOS reported that some family members had to stand by and do nothing as water and mud destroyed their homes.
Losing one loved one is hard enough, but losing 11 at once is unbearable. Jesse and Bryan Craig, who are still alive, can’t even recognize their hometown as they deal with their sadness.
Jesse Craig made a list of all the people he has lost.
“I’ve lost cousins and second cousins,” Jesse told WTVD. “My mother and father, my aunt and uncle, my great aunt and uncle….
Bryan Craig told WLOS, “They saw it, witnessed it, and had to watch it all. Just the sheer, the water through the trees, the rocks, the mud, it’s amazing.”
Bryan told the station that the family had been to a wedding together just a week before the accident. Now, as family and friends dig through the rubble of what’s left of their loved ones’ homes, they are only left with their memories and the pictures and other things that made it through the mudslide.
Bryan said, “We’ll have some great pictures from that wedding and pictures of people who are no longer with us.”
Steve Runion, a friend, told CNN affiliate WRAL that the Craigs were “pillars of the community” and a “larger than life” family.
He told her, “They’d do anything for you.” “They have the heart of a servant.” That’s the best way I know how to say it… Their only goal was to love people.
WTVD said that the family members who still live in the area are working hard to rebuild what their cousins worked so hard to build since the mid-1900s.
Runion told WRAL, “They got a couple of wood stoves back from a couple of the homes.” “Those wood stoves are going to be used to make a memorial, which I think is really cool.”
It says that family and friends have set up a GoFundMe to help with the funeral costs, rebuilding, and losing your job while you’re mourning.
Bryan said, “This will never be the same; this little area can never be the same. But we try to move on, to get on with life; I know they’d want us to.”
Source: Nearly a dozen members of a single North Carolina family were killed by Hurricane Helene
