The hurricane toppled power lines — around 86,000 North Carolina residents are still waiting on power, according to the governor’s office.

Entrepreneurs have endured natural disasters and political crises — and now COVID-19. “You have to be super, super tough,” a business owner says.

Poverty can make it that much harder when a natural disaster strikes.

Sixty percent of the island’s population doesn’t have the resources to prepare for the storm, one expert says.