… all she can to help. Now living in Sherrills Ford, N.C. — the foothills of the state — where high winds and rain led to power outages, Broughton is lucky, and she … Helene brushed her area but pummeled western North Carolina with historic rain that has caused unprecedented damage to roadways, homes, bridges, and … wait it out. “It is almost impossible to access a lot of these communities, except for by air. It’s not safe for volunteers to use the roadways, and they're actually …