Helene survivors in Asheville, N.C. deal with losses, try to rebound [Video]

(NewsNation) — One couple lost the Asheville, N.C. business they spent ten years building. Another became instantly homeless when part of their apartment complex along the Swannanoa River was swept away. All four are alive and thinking about rebuilding their lives – and processing what happened.

“It was terrifying,” Jacqueline Twohig told “NewsNation Prime” about the flooding river that destroyed two buildings of the riverfront apartment complex in which they lived.

“At first we thought it was going to be just a little flooding in the apartment,” she said. That notion quickly changed when she and her husband, Doug Frieders, saw the water covering the 20-foot stilts on which the complex’s buildings sit.

“We got out as fast as we could,” which means scaling a cement barrier on the complex and then walking through ankle-deep water to their car.

Todd and Megan Walsh didn’t have to run for their lives, but they …