‘Your dads in trouble:’ One familys desperate hunt as the search for Helenes missing drags on [Video]

Safe at home Friday afternoon in Illinois, Matthew Cloyd knew the hurricane that had slammed Florida’s Big Bend overnight was due to keep up its brutal churning through the Southeast.Related video above: Recovery efforts and the search for survivors from Helene in the western part of North CarolinaNever in his mind, though, could that possibly include his parents’ home near the Nolichucky River – some 500 miles due north of where Helene made landfall – in far northeastern Tennessee.Tropical systems, of course, can plunder coastlines. And perhaps, if the gusts are strong enough, snap trees 50 miles inland. Or, if they stall out, maybe they dump rain in the same place for days, filling basements and streets like bowls of soup.But even if a storm like that made it to Matthew’s parents’ neighborhood, their house rests on a mound. In the Appalachians. About 1,700 feet above sea level.And it certainly …