No place left unscathed by Helene

It is so cold. Are you boys cold? How'd you sleep? Fine. I woke up so much. One time shivering. I didn't wake up once. Oh, you didn't? Gotta get the wood stove going. You didn't wake up one time? It's 7:15. We slept like 11 hours. You're the only warm one? Mm-mm. Happy day. Especially after 11 hours of sleep. I'll be cold. We got a lot of sleep. As my dad would say, you boys are burning daylight. She has pushed herself all the way down from there. You okay, Harriet? Well, if you just move yourself, that's one less chore. Today's episode of The Rooted Life, we Weird. We're gonna continue to raise awareness for hurricane victims. I'm sitting in this tent for— living in this tent for 100 hours. 36 hours into a health fast, addressing the inflammation in my body. Enjoy getting away with soccer in the house. It's too crazy with everybody else here to have a ball in the house. And look at this job. Look at this. These boys cleaned up, and guess what? It's days clean. There are hundreds out of their homes and living in temporary situations. At this point, people are starting to get RVs. I don't think there's too many people left in tents. After chores, we're going to keep setting up camp. Goal is to make it better and better every day. What's the goal for camp today? To get the, uh, fireplace put in so we can stay warm. Yeah, I would say that's our biggest need, huh? Yep. I heard Annie asked you how it was last night. What'd you say? Cold. I think he said it was awful. Go get us warm. One hour later. Looky there, that's next level. How do you keep rain out? This probably can't lay on it. What in the— who came in here with their shoes on? This is nice though. Cooktop. And uh-oh, they didn't put the fire mat down. And this is a wood stove, so it radiates heat and you stay warm. High, low, off. All right, the goal is to make camp better as we go on and as we live in it. A made homeless hurricane victim would first have to scramble to get up their tent, and then like all humans, we just continue to try and make things better day by day. You guys ready for this? Yeah. Ready. Okay. You guys have a fighting chance since I haven't eaten in 42 hours. We're at the trailhead for our ride in Pisgah. We're gonna see what kind of damage we have here. Even, even the national forest was closed for a while. There was no place unscathed by this hurricane in western North Carolina. Hurricane Helene brought a lot of water into the mountains of western North Carolina when they were already saturated by days of rainfall. That's another thing Hurricane Eileen took from us— our bike rides. I miss being in the woods like this. There's actually 3 loops here: a small one, medium, and a large. We're doing the medium one today, but Jonah's gonna do the small one and the medium one to see if he can catch us and beat us. I wonder if this road's not gone. Maybe they rebuilt it. All right, first climb, here we go. Fall Hammer. First single track. We've gone 6 miles uphill, we get 2 miles down. That's what it seems like. Then we're walking. Could it be the downhill? Is it? Just a tease? I am okay. Slid on some leaves. We're back. Jonah almost caught up to us. One minute, he would have caught us. Proud of you, bud. Thanks, man. Proud of you too, Josiah. And Austin, he kept up this time. Don't leave me out of that. My adopted college dropout, he did it. He beat the old man today. Of course, I haven't eaten in 38 hours now. Yeah, what'd you eat for lunch out at the tent? We didn't eat lunch yet. I think this is what people did when you're displaced. I cannot be over there looking looking at them serving this. I'm just gonna pay for this. I'm making them eat it in here and I'm going outside. Told the boys, since I haven't eaten in like 39 hours, you guys eat inside, enjoy yourself. I'm gonna get some stuff done in the truck. Smells, the sights of people eating. I'm not doing this to make myself miserable. I'm doing this to make myself healthier. I don't need the temptation. All right, stay busy, stay busy. And they're back. Give me a full review. How was the tofu and tempeh plate? It's good. Does it fill you up, Austin? No, I could eat another one. What about you boys? I had to get it to go. I'm full. Yeah. Uh-oh, you need to go get another one, Austin. Yeah, but Rebecca's Mexican. No, no, Rebecca usually makes a crushing meal after our bike rides. We'll miss her right now for that. You want me to hand you in some wood? Yeah. Do you have a place to stack it? Yeah. Some of these are— you can't— you gotta do little woods in here, so we'll resplit these, I guess. Found some, uh, lighter. I'm gonna make sure this fire stays bright. We're gonna stay warm tonight, aren't we, boys? Uh-huh. All right, so it's bringing smoke in. Let's, uh, shut it. How is it not gonna melt this? You're gonna have to move the stove. That's why there's wiggle room. It should be moved. Oh, that's so hot. Okay, that is not cool. This is probably fire retardant, surely. All right, the stove seems safe. Let's locate my knife in case we have to escape. For carbon monoxide, Jonah's got his window open. There's a window open up there. The vents are open. We're gonna be fine. Hey, we've improved, guys. Now if you wake up, stoke the fire. Has anybody looked at the fire lately to put more on it? I'll load it. Jeez. Oh, you guys want to survive with me because I do all the work. Here are Shawn. His mom and I say to each other every night, good luck. What's happening that's so crazy? We have 5 kids. When I'm still little. Oh, you'll get it when you get kids, little kids. I think we're just now getting to where everybody sleeps through the night consistently.