‘I’d never seen devastation like that before,’ says man in Asheville, N.C.

Asheville, North Carolina, residents spoke to NBC News as they lined up at a food bank in the storm-ravaged city.

One man said he thought “nobody fully understood how bad it was going to get” in the area after Helene passed through.

“It looks like a movie,” a woman in line said, adding that the roads look like Play-Doh. “The damage is astronomical.”

Another man said, “I’d never seen devastation like that before.”

People in the city are without water, power and gas and expect to remain that way for weeks.