Hurricane Helene wrought devastation on the Cartner's Christmas Tree Farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, where the Cartner family has been growing trees for more than six decades. The storm,

First lady Jill Biden welcomes the delivery of the official White House Christmas tree. She paid tribute to North Carolina's Cartner family for providing the "tree-mendous" Fraser Fir, despite being devastated by Hurricane Helene.