By james art 
Yancey County, NC (WLOS) – A family in North Carolina can finally exclude its generator forever.
Their strength was restored over the weekend, nearly three months after leaving Yansi County during Hurricane Helen.
Diane Merz moved to the picturesque home from Nova England with her husband 25 years ago.
“It was beautiful, absolutely beautiful,” Mertz recalled.
She shoots the wild, living quietly in the greenery across the Kane River.
Everything changed at the end of September.
“There is nothing now,” the homeowner said. “We have a tree to sit if they come back.”
Mertz says her home sits 40 or 50 feet above the water; The river rose to 7 feet from the line of their fence.
“There was no time here. The road in front of our home all down, probably to where the road turns. There was no way, ”said Mertz. “The river had moved and the river was directly below us.”
When the water gave way, its path was destroyed. She also watched power lines descend.
“If that happened, we realized that it would take a long time to get power. We knew that, just looking, every pole all the way I think was downloaded, “Mertz said.
For more than a week, they were sitting in the dark.
“We were trapped here,” Mertz said. “There was no way or go out.”
Mertz was told that it could take a year before the lights turned on again. If not for the good will of the perfect strangers who give them a generator, who knows how long it would be.
“They didn’t wait until we had a road. They came over the rocks and up the side of the hill on the ladder and it was amazing to watch, “said Mertz.
Months after that.
“We could only go out and go out with the four wheels,” Mertz said.
In the end, a driving road was reborn.
Then, as Merz said it, the cavalry appeared. The pole of the force lined through their tree was hooked directly to their home.
“They may have had a bucket line through the forest if there were 20 houses here to feed, but for one person it was not financially or physically feasible to deal with this problem for a home,” said Merz, S
Her husband is a former liner with a telephone company.
The couple never called French wide electric. They knew they would show up when it was safe.
“I feel better little in this, and I hope we get the help we need, and it will return to the way it looked to look in my life. I hope. I hope, ”said Merz. “That’s all we can do is hope.”
The electric company says all customers now have energy.
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