RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – As winter sets in, residents in North Carolina’s Avery and Mitchell counties are facing an urgent crisis: a severe fuel shortage in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
The storm dismantled the area’s only kerosene station, cutting off a critical supply line just as temperatures in the mountains start to plummet into the 30s and 40s.
With snow expected toward the end of the week, several mountain communities are in desperate need of heating fuel. The single kerosene station provides fuel to individual customers and also has to supply larger distributors in the region…