Major infrastructure washed away in N.C. by Hurricane Helene [Video]

HENDERSON COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) — A mass rebuild is underway for North Carolinians who call this place, destroyed by Hurricane Helene, home.

“I’ve never been scared of the river & I was scared that day,” Bat Cave resident, Chelsea Atkins said.

Workers have come to the area from all over the country as thousands have game-planned how and where work can begin.

“Miles of primary routes that were completely decimated and gone and unpassable,” Nathan Tanner, Assistant Division Construction Engineer with NCDOT, described some of the roadways in Henderson County.

7NEWS rode along with NCDOT to places in Western North Carolina that are described as unrecognizable.

When asked will this area ever look the same, Resident Engineer, Michael Patton said, “It will..not in my lifetime.”

The North Carolina Department of Transportation said Hurricane Helene was an unprecedented storm for this state, telling us major pieces of infrastructure have been completely …