Relief is slowly giving way to recovery in the Asheville and Western North Carolina area after Tropical Storm Helene left communities devastated.

Initial impacts from Helene — which hit the Carolinas as a tropical storm — are over. But hundreds of thousands are still without power, dozens of roads are closed, and risks of flooding remain.

More than 230 people have been killed from Hurricane Helene, which unleashed devastation across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee.Helene, which made landfall in Florida's Big Bend region last week as a massive Category 4 hurricane,