Insurance ran out, help never came | Wheeler County man battles Hurricane Helene’s aftermath alone

WHEELER COUNTY, Ga. — When Hurricane Helene tore through Central Georgia last September, 97-year-old Angelo Crowe thought the hardest days were behind him. But a year later, Crowe is still cleaning up the devastation and waiting for promised help that never arrived.

Crowe lives on a sprawling 150-acre property outside Helena in Wheeler County, Georgia. It’s the same log house his family moved into in 1933, surrounded by a cemetery full of relatives dating back nearly two centuries.

“I counted 231 trees down,” Crowe said. “It makes me sick every time I look at it.”

The storm left Crowe trapped inside his own home, his driveway blocked by fallen timbers and cut off from electricity for 13 days. He drove to Eastman for generator fuel and relied on neighbors to cut a path through the ta