LENOIR, N.C. – The remnants of Hurricane Helene still litter roadsides, riverbanks and yards in western North Carolina as crews continue collecting thousands of pounds of storm debris.
A few blocks from downtown Lenoir, a growing pile of tree debris sits in an empty lot.
It’s one of several sites in Caldwell County where crews are working from sunrise to sunset. Every day they drop off 90 to 100 truckloads of trees that were brought down during Helene…