Haywood County is getting help from the military and government. There were quite a few military personnel and vehicles moving in and out of Canton the past few days. Also, regularly saw Blackhawks during the first week after it hit. Most of them had moved out by early this week.
I was in Swannaoa yesterday for work and there was military actively working the area where I was at. Personally, having worked through a couple mountain disasters, I have very little expectation from the government or military in these types of events.
Volunteers, community leaders (both elected and that rise up for the occasion), local insurance agents and local elected officials are who does most of the heavy lifting for individual citizens and families early on, many at great expense to themselves. Once the recovery moves to weeks, months, and years the organizations that you will see will all be non-profits either funneling money to contractors to do the work or organizations doing volunteer work for repairs on houses/ property etc. A LOT of the long term work will be performed by faith-based groups. The very large amounts of government money and efforts will go to businesses, while 95% of affected individuals will get a very small amount. I’ve said it on here before, whether you believe federal governemnt does a good job or a terrible job, they do 100x better in City and municipal disasters than they do in small mountain communities and that’s just how the system is designed. Fortunately, the families that moved to these sparsely populated hills and hollers, 100-200+ years came with little to no expectation of government and it’s still pretty ingrained in a lot of us, so we dig in, dig out, and move forward.