Santiago Ochoa | WFDD

The rising influence of Latinos on elections was put on full display when roughly 45% of that group of voters ticked Donald Trump on their ballots this year.

Upward of 300,000 North Carolinians' private wells were flooded, jostled in place until they fractured and filled with the contents of anything the storm surge had picked up, from septic systems to propane tanks.

Since Helene hit western North Carolina, workers for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have been on the ground helping with everything from search and rescue operations to signing up thousands of residents for millions of dollars worth of aid.