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A Georgia man is thanking God after narrowly surviving being stranded in the North Carolina mountains during and directly after Hurricane Helene devastated the state on September 27.
Kyle Vargas of McDonough, Georgia hiked 13 miles on foot through the mountains after being stranded in the Tar Heel state while visiting Ashland with his brother for a work trip.
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“Just to look around and see trees everywhere and cars in sinkholes and stuff smashed…like I never seen anything like that before,” Vargas told FOX 5 Atlanta. “Man, I could cry right now… He just always showing me He got me.”
Vargas said that strangers offered the two men rides along the way, which they documented with video, and God helped him find his way back home to his wife. The two made it home without the use of GPS and after …
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