(The Center Square) – Lawmakers in North Carolina are returning to Raleigh to pass legislation next week securing fiscal aid and lawful allowances in other areas of daily life to the western part of the state devastated by Hurricane Helene flooding.

Past precedent includes not only appropriating money but also working with election law, education attendance requirements and educators’ pay, and fees associated with driver’s licenses. The storm that came ashore Sept. 26 in the Big Bend of Florida as a Category 4 hurricane with 140 mph sustained winds stalled out over the Appalachian Mountains and Tennessee, causing catastrophic flooding that killed 72 in Buncombe County.