09-05-2025
Months after Helene, it's still hard to drive these North Carolina roads
BURNSVILLE, North Carolina — The day of Bobby Hensley's stroke in February, Green Leaf Road was so muddy and pockmarked that an ambulance couldn't make it to the 82-year-old Air Force veteran's house.
The steep dirt road in Yancey County, North Carolina, has always been in rough condition. But since the tropical storm remnants of Hurricane Helene blew through seven months ago, the privately owned road has been disfigured by deep craters, making it often impassable for many vehicles.
