Body of woman drowned in Helene flooding returned to family two weeks after storm

The family of Samira Zoobi, 28, received conflicting information for days after the woman was swept away

It took two weeks for a family in North Carolina to be reunited with the remains of their daughter after she was swept to her death by a flood in the wake of Hurricane Helene – just one of many traumatic incidents as communities continue to grapple with upended lives three weeks after the storm.

First, with no word of her fate and then told she’d been killed, Colette and Fadi Zoobi, of Huntersville, were swallowed up in shock and heartbreak.