YANCEY COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- Next month marks a year since Hurricane Helene tore through North Carolina.

On Thursday, Queen City News went with North Carolina Department of Transportation officials through Yancey County -- one of the hardest hit areas -- to see the progress that has been made and the work that still must be done.

“If you go across this road and you take a left, that’s Bald Mountain Road,” said Tyler Shelton, an NCDOT county maintenance engineer.

The recovery and rebuilding have been a long, continuous road.

“If you didn’t experience it, you didn’t see videos, you would have never known,” said Shelton of the progress that’s being made to rebuild.

They’re getting there.

“We actually installed a causeway and a temporary bridge,” said Shelton, driving through

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