BUMPUS COVE, Tenn. (WJHL) — Some Bumpus Cove residents are still in temporary housing one year after losing their homes to the Hurricane Helene floods along the Nolichucky River.

The hurricane hit the region in September of last year, flooding hundreds of residents' homes as they were forced to resort to temporary housing and campers.

Rhonda Mango is a fourth-generation owner of three plots of property along the Nolichucky River in Bumpus Cove, which her grandparents purchased back in the 1950s. Three homes on her property got washed away in the floods, homes that her own family built over the past couple of decades.

"The home I was living in was built in 1954. The house my mom was living in was built by her and my dad in 1977, and the home my daughter was living in was built in 2000,"

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