Help Our Family Rebuild Our Life After Hurricanes Helene Mil

I don't even know where to begin.

I've never done this before. But, we have also never been in a situation like this before.

My mother Louise, Myself, Husband and two children 15 and 10 have been severely impacted by Hurricane Helene and without assistance, we won't be able to recover from this.

Unfortunately, my mom was unable to get flood Insurance on her older mobile secondary home.

We live in her primary, which has flood insurance, but sadly it doesn't have content coverage.

This Hurricane destroyed our community. Our homes in my area have never flooded before. It took us all by surprise as to how much storm surge we got in both dwellings.

My mother's' home is an older mobile and will likely not be recoverable due to the volume of water and the damage the sewage and sea water will cause. She will likely need to not only replace the mobile, but everything else. We have had to wait to assess the damages until today because it was inaccessible due to water. Furniture, electronics, housewares. All out of pocket. No FEMA aid yet, no flood insurance. She's retired on a fixed income.

Our home My mothers Primary will need thousands of dollars of repairs as it was also under considerable amount of sewage and sea water. The good news is that flood insurance should cover repairs to the home. However, with no content coverage, we will have to replace EVERYTHING. Appliances, Furniture, My sons toys, shoes. It is overwhelming.

Not only did we sustain damages and loss at the house, but my husbands vehicle to go back and forth to work was in the shop for repairs. Which also flooded. The car was completely under water and is most likely total loss. I don't even know where to start to tackle this insurmountable climb.

My family and friends are helping as much as they can, but a considerable amount of them have also experienced losses. The few photos I have don't do any justice to the loss.

We are thankful we are safe, but with schools opening back up already, and us being an hours drive one way away from home, things are rough.

Any assistance you can give us is greatly appreciated as we wait for mitigation services to come and get a full assessment. We will update more as things proceed.

This photo is of our primary residence partway through the storm surge.

This was taken after the bridges opened back up and water had receded some, but not enough to access Louise's mobile.

This is the floor in our bathroom, you can sort of make out the water line on the door to the right. There was about 2-3 inches of standing water in the home after the water receded when we were able to access the area again.