When Elizabeth Steere’s two sons were little, the family watched The Wizard of Oz and its famous tornado scene that whips Dorothy through the air.
Steere, who lives in Asheville, North Carolina, assured her kids, now 11 and 13, not to worry. “I remember saying, very glibly, ‘That’s not something you guys have to worry about,’” Steele recalled.
Then on 26 September, Helene struck the region as a tropical storm, killing scores of people, destroying whole towns, tearing apart roads, downing power lines, and contaminating water supplies. The waters damaged several schools in the region and left many without potable water.
Nearly a month later, about 76,000 students in western North Carolina are still out of school and families are scrambling to cope with the loss of routine and structure.
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