One family lost 11 people when Hurricane Helene devastated the community named for them.
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 11:17PMFAIRVIEW, N.C. --All 11 family members living in what is known to locals in Fairview, North Carolina, as "Craigtown," are part of the"It's unrecognizable now, but this is where I was born and raised," Jesse Craig said to ABC sister station ABC11 as he walked Diane Wilson through the destruction of his hometown."We'll never make sense of it. You know, it's our community and our town.
The Craigs built eight decades of memories in that town. It began when Jesse's grandfather bought the land in the mid-1900s. Since then generation after generation has been born and raised there. None of them could ever imagine something like this would happen.
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