As the President of the North Carolina Sheriffs' Association, Chatham County Sheriff Mike Roberson knows when disaster strikes in North Carolina, it’s his responsibility to check in with the local sheriffs. This past weekend, as Hurricane Helene ripped through the western part of the state, he called some of his colleagues to go visit their peers in the affected counties where cell service is down. “We sent a couple of sheriffs to different places that we thought were pretty bad,” Roberson told 97.9 The Hill on Tuesday, “large, populated areas – to make sure that if we sent [people or things] out, they’d be able to take the help we were sending them.” Roberson called up former NCSA president and Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood to accompany him to Henderson County. Blackwood said it didn’t take long on the trip out to western counties to begin seeing the signs of devastation and the extent to which first responders were stretched thin. “When I rode by a farm tractor company a...