We live an hour west of Asheville, NC. We had no power for 8 days, roads washed out, but nothing like Asheville did. Despite the conspiracy theorists, helicopters were bringing in supplies and looking for survivors as soon as they could. FEMA and National Guard. In the mountains I hear them long before I see them.
I have tried to put in some of the chaos of this disaster. Here are five iterations of this painting.