Nearly a week after Hurricane Helene destroyed water utilities in North Carolina in the United States, residents line up at a water distribution point to fill their canisters. The death toll stands at more than 200 throughout several southeast states. North Carolina has been the hardest hit, recording half of the fatalities.
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00:00We still have running water, but it's on the other side of the creek, so I had to get
00:24it, fix it, repair it, and now we're carrying water 100 feet to the house in buckets to
00:33flush the commode, to drink water, but it's good clean water.
00:38Most people don't have that.
00:42We have neighbors that are kind of incapacitated, and I think with a lot of the elderly people
00:48the problem has been is that they can't even think.
00:51They're very tired out, so we're just trying to get water and things, because the biggest
00:55adventure of the day is where to find toilet water.
00:59That's like the big adventure for the day.
01:00It's like, let's go find us some toilet water, okay?
01:17It's rough, but you get used to it.
01:20You get used to it, and everybody's doing all they can, and we've got some place to
01:25go where we can get some water and food, so we survive it.