Jordan Seidhom, who decided to go help those impacted by Helene with his own helicopter on his own dime, was able to rescue Susan Coffey off a mountainside.

As many are still reeling from the damages caused by Hurricane Helene, NBC News' Morgan Chesky rides along with the Army National Guard to deliver relief to some communities.

For a split-second, it sounded like thunder. Both Mike and Susan Coffey were sitting in silence, trying to figure out what was happening outside their Lake Lure home as the winds and rain from Hurricane Helene hammered the North Carolina mountains.

An army of private volunteers including mule drivers and helicopter pilots are helping deliver supplies and rescue stranded victims after one of the deadliest storms in recent US history ripped through the mountains of western One week after Helene slammed into the Florida Panhandle and devastated wide swathes of half a dozen states,