Areas of Greenville County still suffering from Hurricane Helene, a week after the storm

GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – In the Northwood Hills neighborhood off Old Buncombe Road in Greenville County, there is catastrophic damage from Hurricane Helene.

Power lines were left in tangles and trees were lying everywhere.

It’s been an unimaginable week for residents across the Carolinas as they manage the mess from Hurricane Helene and try to figure out which steps to take first.

Several days after the storm hit, residents said they are still shocked.

“It has devastated this Northwood Hills community very badly,” said Judy Edwards Cothran, a homeowner in the neighborhood. “Every home, just about, has been damaged.”

One neighbor said 10 trees fell on and around her home. Another neighbor said 12 trees fell on his water line.

Some streets in this neighborhood were still impassable, almost a week after Helene hit. Cars are crushed and more power lines are on the ground than we could count.

Neighbors said they’re devastated.

“We are without power; we have no air conditioning,” Cothran explained. “When the cooler weather comes in, we don’t know how long it is going to take. We’re told as early as Friday night at 11:30pm but we have also heard comments that it could also be as long as October the 12th.”

Cothran said the home she lives in has extensive damage. It was her childhood home built in the 1960’s that she now shares with the family she’s built. She said, living her whole life here in Greenville, she’s never seen damage like this.

Early Friday morning, she said, was a nightmare.

“I ran to the back of the house to get my disabled son up, out of the bed to get clothes, to get chargers for phones, get his anti-seizure medicines and stuff he is going to need and grab him and get him up from a dead sleep so that we could get out of the house because I knew that with as many trees as we have on our property that it could come down, and we ran out of the house,” Cothran said.

Cothran said that in such a devastating time, she is thankful that neighbors have come together to help each other.

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