I don’t even know how to describe how I feel,” a gallery worker said. “I feel hopeless and helpless, like I need to be doing more to help other people.”

For many business owners in Asheville's River Arts District, the destruction is total due to the record floods.

The city and its artists were hard-hit by the storm that tore a deadly path of destruction from Florida through inland Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee.

David Sheldon, an artist who showcases his work in Asheville's famed River Arts District, escaped from Helene's devastation to Raleigh with his insulin-dependent cat.