Suttons Bay woman fears for family

When it comes down to Helene vs. Leelanau, our county is coming through.

That’s the belief held by Jenny Herman, who thought she had lost her mother and brother in epic floods caused by the deadly hurricane. Jenny fretted for two days after the last phone call she had with her brother M.J. Romo, who was helping evacuate a neighbor’s house before the rising water of Mill River in Henderson County, North Carolina left visible only its roof.

Two long days. “The rain came down quick,” said Herman, the senior planner for the Leelanau County Planning Department. “And then we lost communication, and I was thinking the worst. I was calling all of them every five, 10 minutes, waiting for something to go through.”