MARSHALL, N.C. — This week marks one year since Hurricane Helene hit Western North Carolina and parts of East Tennessee, changing lives forever.

The Rollins community is one of the areas hit hard . It's a small, one-street neighborhood in the town of Marshall, North Carolina . About 800 people live in Marshall, which sits on the banks of the French Broad River.

Jennifer Greene grew up along the river on Rollins Road.

“You could not just look out and just see the river,” Greene said. “You would have the trees and then we kept them groomed down or undergrowth so you could see the river.”

But when Helene swept through, that view changed forever as the riverbanks were forced to widen with the force of the floodwater. Greene was on vacation at the beach when floodwaters rose.

“And th

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