Stories of neighbors taking action to help one another in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene continue to surface. In western North Carolina, cell phone video shows attendees of a wedding rehearsal pausing to rescue a woman from floodwaters.Eddie Hunnell, the father of the groom, heard a woman had become trapped in her home near an inn in Grassy Creek, North Carolina.Hunnell asked the owner of the inn for a life jacket, rope and an oar, he told CNN. After rushing outside, he encountered the woman’s husband, Phil Worth, who explained his wife, Leslie, was stuck in their house and couldn’t get out.Hunnell and Worth grabbed a canoe and tried to reach Leslie but couldn’t.“We were trying to figure out how to get her out, and we were running out of ideas,” Hunnell said. “I was pretty confident the house was going to eventually collapse, and my biggest concern was that …
Video shows attendees of a North Carolina wedding rehearsal dinner rescue woman from floodwaters [Video]
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