Bent, but not broken: The story of Craigtown

BUNCOMBE COUNTY, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - In early fall, mist and fog often surround the Blue Ridge Mountains. They are among the oldest mountains in the world, but now, new scars cut through the ancient hills, as if a knife sliced into them.

Those scars are the result of the most devastating storm to ever hit the western Carolinas: Hurricane Helene.

On its own, the hurricane was enough to bring catastrophic damage, but when combined with days’ worth of rain before the storm even arrived, the disaster was incomprehensible. More than 24 inches of rain in most areas led to widespread flooding, and more than 2,000 landslides left behind damage that’s still there one year later.

In Western North Carolina, the storm killed 108 people. In one small community, affectionately named after a family