LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Not long after his Asheville, North Carolina-area neighborhood was battered by flooding from Hurricane Helene, Sav Sankaran looked out his front window and said he saw a truck from the Kentucky Department of Highways in his driveway.
The workers were there as part of an ongoing effort to help western North Carolina rebuild after floodwaters washed away hundreds of roads and bridges — the physical aftermath of a storm that left at least 101 people in that state dead.
Sankaran, a member of the bluegrass band Unspoken Tradition, said his home in the town of Fairview wasn’t damaged. But the Kentucky crews helped fix nearby roads that needed repairs, he told WDRB News, and even fixed some of his neighbors’ driveways…