(3 Oct 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Horseshoe Beach, Florida – 30 September 2024
1. Brooke Hiers looking at the lot where her house used to be
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Brooke Hiers, Home destroyed by Hurricane Helene:
"I grieved a little bit. I’ve grieved mostly sitting here today talking to you guys. This is the most. Oof! I’ve. I’ve hugged people, and cried with them. But this is the first time I’ve really sat down here and been here and thought about it. I’ve tried to use them all. Catastrophic, devastating, heartbreaking. None of that explains what happened here. I’ve never been to war, especially like with bombing. You know, when I see, like, terrorist bombings and stuff on TV, that’s kind of what it reminds me of."
3. Hiers going into her house that was washed 50 feet from where it was built on 4 foot pillars
4. Tracking shot of destruction
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Brooke Hiers, Home destroyed by Hurricane Helene:
"You feel beat down. Like you can’t come back from it. You feel like that this could be the end of things as you knew it. You know, of your town, of your community and you you right now, it’s so early. We just don’t even know how to recover."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dekle Beach, Florida – 30 September 2024
6. Hud Lilliott walking on the slab of cement his house use to be on
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Hud Lilliott, Home destroyed by Hurricane Helene:
"Well, the first thing I could not see was my roofline. I knew just as soon as we got around the first quarter, I couldn’t see my roof and say It’s not there. We just haven’t had time to get over. Idalia, Debbie, and now it’s just this just compounds all of that."
8. UPSOUND (English) Laurie Lilliott, Home destroyed by Hurricane Helene:
"The door was here."
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Laurie Lilliott, Home destroyed by Hurricane Helene:
"We’ve worked our whole lives. I mean, We’re we’re so close to where they say the golden years. It’s like you can see the light and then it all goes dark."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Steinhatchee , Florida – 29 September 2024
10. Dave Beamer showing flooded shed with a clock that stopped when storm hit
11. Various of Beamer walking down the block to where his house was swept away
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dave Beamer, Home destroyed by Hurricane Helene:
"He said, I see your house down there and said, Blue house. I just got finished painting it and you can see it down there. But that’s where my house ended up."
REPORTER: "How far would you say that is?"
BEAMER: " A football field, anyways."
13. Various of Beamer showing where his house used to be
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Dave Beamer, Home destroyed by Hurricane Helene:
"I feel so bad for everybody. And everybody says, I’m sorry. I’m sorry and everybody’s sorry. And now it’s time to go back to work and let’s get’er done."
15. Sunset sky over destroyed restaurant in Steinhatchee
STORYLINE:
It was just a month ago that Brooke Hiers left the state-issued emergency trailer where her family had lived since Hurricane Idalia slammed into her Gulf Coast fishing village of Horseshoe Beach in August 2023.
Hiers and her husband Clint were still finishing the electrical work in the home they painstakingly rebuilt themselves, wiping out Clint’s savings to do so. They never will finish that wiring job.
Hurricane Helene blew their newly renovated home off its four foot-high pilings, sending it floating into the neighbor’s yard next door.
"I’ve hugged people, and cried with them. But this is the first time I’ve really sat down here and been here and thought about it. I’ve tried to use them all. Hiers said.
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