North Carolina officials are pledging to get more water and other supplies to storm-damaged areas by Monday after Hurricane Helene left a trail of destruction across the U.S. Southeast.

Authorities struggled to get water and other supplies to isolated, flood-stricken areas across the U.S. Southeast in the wake of Hurricane Helene as the death toll from the storm rose to nearly 100. A North Carolina county that includes the mountain city of Asheville reported 30 people killed due to the storm,

“My parents live in an absolute gem of the North Carolina ... said. “[Flood water] was up to the gutters.” ‘We have no power, no running water, no cell reception’ Clutching firewood in her hands, Meredith Keisler, a school nurse in Asheville ...