Helene mudslide rips homes from ground, kills 11 members of one family

North Carolina’s Jesse Craig is mourning the loss of 11 family members who were killed by a mudslide caused by the “biblical devastation” of Hurricane Helene.

Among those dead are Jesse’s mother and father, and the houses in the small community called “Craigtown,” where generations of the tight-knit family lived for 80 years.

Keep reading to learn more about this tragic story.

After destroying parts of Florida, Hurricane Helene made its way north, unleashing its fury as it ripped apart everything along its wicked path.

The devastating tropical cyclone killed about 230 people across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee, and is now considered the deadliest mainland hurricane since Katrina in 2005.

Since September 27, Helene flooded much of western North Carolina and raging mudslides ripped victims and their homes from mountainous communities.

Rescue along with recovery teams, and K9 Units are still searching through the “biblical devastation” caused by Helene.

Among those dead are 11 members of the Craig family, who lived about 12 miles southeast of Asheville in a community dubbed Craigtown, which was slammed by Helene.

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Fox News reports that the “11 deceased family members lived in several houses beside each other, which the mudslide crushed when it came down the slope of the mountain near their homes.”

“My mother and father, my aunt and uncle, my great aunt and uncle, I’ve lost cousins, second cousins, things like that, but 11 people overall from this mudslide,” Jesse Craig tells ABC of his family, described as “pillars of the community” in a GoFundMe campaign created to support the surviving members  “It’s unrecognizable now, but this is where I was born and raised,” Jesse says of the land his grandfather bought 80 years ago. Since, generations of Craigs were born and raised in the family community, memories that were erased by Helene. “We’ll never make sense of it. You know, it’s our community and our town. I don’t know that it’ll ever be the same.”

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