Farmers across the Southeast region are still recovering from Hurricane Helene nearly one year later. WTOC has been recognizing the resilient cities and counties hit hardest by one of the most destructive hurricanes our area has seen in decades.
Team WTOC walked the blueberry fields of Bacon County to see how they're doing. Crews have long since removed trees that Helene brought crashing down, but Bacon County Emergency Manager Danny Turner still has a lot of work to do off the streets Alma.
"Literally city and county had every road blocked." said Turner. He remembers that night vividly. "The at times, almost deafening wind volume, I never thought the wind could sound as loud as that. You could hear just constantly trees breaking and falling and thuds of huge trees hitting the ground."
"We knew that just our neighboring county had a huge chip mill, but we also knew that they had a lot of debris that would overwhelm their mill just from that one county, so we chose to do the burning." Said Turner.
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