Helene killed at least 103 people in North Carolina as of Nov. 26 ... Beatty is donating his royalties from sales of the book to flood victims through the Helene Rebuild Collaborative.

Despite complicated politics of trying to rebuild and mitigate against future floods, local knowledge provides path for ...

Quite a few flood victims have read the book and discussed it with him ... of years ago in the Southern Appalachian mountains in North Carolina and Tennessee, according to the Western North ...