11 Family Members Tragically Killed by Hurricane Helene
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One household is coping with unimaginable loss within the wake of Hurricane Helene.
In Fairview, N.C., a Sept. 27 landslide that was “triggered without warning by unprecedented rains” from the violent storm, killed 11 members of Jesse Craig’s household, in keeping with a GoFundMe titled “Support the Craig Family After Tragic Loss.”
“My mother and father, my aunt and uncle, my great aunt and uncle,” Jesse told local news affiliate ABC11. “I’ve lost cousins, second cousins, things like that, but 11 people overall from this mudslide.”
In addition to the devastating loss, the town of Fairview—which is lovingly known as “Craigtown” as a result of household’s stamp on the neighborhood over eight many years—skilled intense destruction.
“It’s unrecognizable now,” Jesse continued, “but this is where I was born and raised.”
Jesse’s spouse MeKenzie Craig is equally reeling from Hurricane Helene, which has killed not less than 223 individuals, per NBC News.
“We’ll never make sense of it,” she shared with ABC11. “It’s our community and our town. I don’t know that it’ll ever be the same. It’s been that life-altering a situation. I haven’t been able to process it yet. It’s still it’s not new because it feels like it’s been forever. I don’t even know what day it is.”
