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It was the last time they saw each other.

Today, Sibrina Barnett69制片厂制作传媒檚 clothes are just where she left them, on her side of the bed. Her nail polish and shampoo are still in the bathroom. Her sweater still hangs from the back of a kitchen chair. Jerry knows he will have to move them one day, but not yet.

Helene caused catastrophic damage, the deadliest storm to hit the U.S. mainland since Katrina in 2005. At least 221 people were killed. Many were like Sibrina, drowning in floods hundreds of miles inland. Behind every number was a person whose absence is sorely felt.

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A few years later, she was pregnant. They got married and made their future, in a mobile home in the same community Jerry has known all his life.

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They were both workaholics. He does HVAC repair, but she was proud to be the main breadwinner. Six days a week, she69制片厂制作传媒檇 handle a morning cleaning job, then clean a private school in the evening. Clients loved her for being meticulous 69制片厂制作传媒� she69制片厂制作传媒檇 sometimes go back over areas already cleaned by a different crew until they met her standards.

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Caimen is 21 now, but the first thing visitors see in the home he shares with his dad is a coffee-table-sized resin model of characters from the Dragonball Z anime show. Dozens of smaller models fill a living room display case. Still more line the hallway. Sibrina ordered the figures and they would assemble them together. Some came all the way from Japan and cost thousands of dollars.

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One of the display cases now holds Sibrina69制片厂制作传媒檚 urn.

The Flood

Sibrina hated driving in bad weather, so she went in late to Impact Plastics on Sept. 27. Rainwater would often pool on the factory parking lot, but she called Jerry on her break to report it was higher than usual. Then she called again 69制片厂制作传媒� the water had risen to the bottom of her car door. Jerry put his tools away and drove to get her, but the exit off the interstate was blocked.

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What happened next, Jerry learned second-hand. As the water kept rising, Sibrina and nine other workers retreated to the highest point 69制片厂制作传媒� the flatbed of a tractor-trailer loaded with giant coils of plastic tubing. It wasn69制片厂制作传媒檛 high enough. They called 911, but first responders were focused on a different emergency: Dozens of people were trapped on the roof of a nearby hospital.

Then the truck flipped over, sending the workers into the raging water. Some managed to float on the tubing and were washed onto a pile of debris. Sibrina was one of six who died.

Many Americans haven69制片厂制作传媒檛 thought of inland areas as being particularly vulnerable to severe weather, but places like Erwin, in a valley alongside the Nolichucky River, are increasingly prone to disasters.

Jerry hung up with Sibrina and went back to work. He had no idea how bad the flooding was, and didn69制片厂制作传媒檛 learn she was missing until hours later. He tried searching for clues in YouTube videos. Eight days passed before her body was recovered.

The litigation

Jerry69制片厂制作传媒檚 lawyer, Luke Widener, said the workers relied on management to warn them of dangers outside because the factory had few windows. Some said they weren69制片厂制作传媒檛 allowed to stop work until the power went out. By then the access road was under water.

Widener also represents Zinnia Adkins, who earned $11.50 an hour as a temporary employee at Impact Plastics. She69制片厂制作传媒檚 alive, she said, because a co-worker gripped her tightly in the chest-deep water. She can69制片厂制作传媒檛 swim and is deathly afraid of spiders, which were all over the water69制片厂制作传媒檚 surface. Months later, she still sleeps on the couch because the bed feels too open and unsafe.

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The family of another employee, Johnny Peterson, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the company and its owner, Gerald O69制片厂制作传媒機onnor, who said the workers were dismissed with enough time to escape.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the state69制片厂制作传媒檚 workplace safety office have opened investigations.