On the website of the Mountain River Family Campground, old customers and total strangers began reserving campsites, leaving comments like, "I know we can't come."

According to the most recent unit status maps released by the company Friday afternoon, Oct. 4, in the wake of Hurricane Helene, two Waffle House locations in Western North Carolina were closed and 11 were offering limited menus.

Hurricane Helene has left a wake of death and destruction across Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee after it made landfall in Florida on Sept. 26. Despite being downgraded to a tropical depression, hundreds were killed by the storm, millions are still without power, and the damage is estimated in the billions of dollars.