VALDOSTA - Helene bent pine trees and utility poles like toothpicks. It littered this city’s downtown with twisted sheet metal, blocks-long piles of tree limbs and bricks from fallen building facades.
Gonzalez, a 40-year-old Mexican immigrant, said when there’s work, she can pay their bills but it takes a lot of effort. Life gets much harder when there’s no work, especially now that many companies ...