It wasn’t as if the Tar Heel state didn’t see Hurricane Helene coming. On Sept. 25, one day before Helene stormed ashore, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper declared a state of emergency as the storm’s path showed it churning northward toward Appalachia after making landfall in Florida.

As of Nov. 6, 102 North Carolinians were killed by Helene, according to Charlotte CBS affiliate WBTV. The majority of the deaths have come out of Buncombe County, with the latest count coming in at 43. The most common cause of death has been drowning, according to WBTV.

Oliver Anthony, the singer who went viral for his "Rich Men North Of Richmond" song last year, went to Western North Carolina to investigate claims he saw online about FEMA's response to Hurricane Helene. He says the entire time he was there he saw one FEMA contractor, who told him that the agency...