Hurricane Helene devastated towns across the south in September, causing record rainfall and triggering historic flooding.

Seven months later, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is still on the ground leading the clean-up effort in western North Carolina – one of those towns being Lake Lure.

A waterpark in the town, which would normally be busy prepping for its peak season, currently has no running water to fill pools or operate watersides as water has been cut off, so that debris can be removed.

Engineer George Minges said there is close to ten feet of debris under the silt and sand in some areas of Lake Lure.

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"It's this avalanche of soil and trees and rocks and homes. All these came down the river here and were deposited in the lakes," Minges said.

USACE Col. Brad Morgan said his team has spent months cleaning fragments of storm-damaged trees and other debris from waterways.

"At least 75% of the storm-generated debris from Hurricane Helene had found its way into some type of waterway within Western North Carolina," Morgan said. "We've got some specialized equipment we brought in from the Gulf of America. It's been out here working since November."

The USACE has also cleared roadways and is still hauling debris from homes and businesses.

"We probably have 7,000 private property parcels that we'll clean up. L.A. has about 9,000. So just that one part of this disaster response is equal in the size of that of L.A.," Morgan said.

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Lake Lure Mayor Carol Pritchett said the town relied on contractors for the first three weeks, but the USACE has brought the town much further along.

"With the Army Corps of Engineers, they actually began three weeks after Helene, and it was a God-send. We would not be where we are today, truthfully, without them," Pritchett said.

Pritchett said the town has a great emergency management plan in place for hurricanes, but the power of Hurricane Helene was unexpected.

"We had a great emergency plan," Pritchett said. "It was based on and predicted on what the general perspective of what a hurricane has always meant to someone in these western North Carolina mountains … This was just not that hurricane."

The Army Corps of Engineers has removed more than 5 million cubic yards of debris in western North Carolina since helping with clean-up efforts in the area. Officials said the goal is to remove all debris by July.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris returned to the political scene with a fiery speech on Wednesday night in which she slammed the Trump administration’s first 100 days.

Harris had a very negative, often angry-sounding message in her first speech since she left office, even saying, "we are seeing the wholesale abandonment" of American ideals in reference to President Donald Trump's priorities.

"Now, I know tonight's event happens to coincide with the 100 days after the inauguration, and I'll leave to others to give a full accounting of what has happened so far," she said. "But I will say this. Instead of the administration working to advance America's highest ideals, we are witnessing the wholesale abandonment of those ideals."

Harris accused Trump of advancing "an agenda [of] a narrow, self-serving vision of America," threatening to bring a "constitutional crisis" to the nation.

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She accused Trump of bringing "chaos" to the U.S. through his tariff policy, accusing him of being responsible for the "greatest manmade economic crisis in modern presidential history."

But beyond this, Harris claimed that the Trump administration is advancing an intentional vision to undermine American democracy.

"Some people are describing what has been happening in recent months as absolute chaos, and of course, I understand why, and it's certainly true of those tariffs," she said. "But friends, please let us not be duped into thinking everything is chaos."

She continued: "What we are in fact witnessing is a high-velocity event. Where a vessel is being used for the swift implementation of an agenda that has been decades in the making. An agenda to slash public education, an agenda to shrink government and then to privatize its services, all while giving tax breaks to the wealthiest among us."

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"Right now, we are living in their vision for America," Harris went on. "It's an agenda, a narrow, self-serving vision of America where they punish truth tellers, favor loyalists cashing in on their power, and leave everyone to fend for themselves, all while abandoning allies and retreating from the world."

Harris further alluded to the Trump administration’s deportation of illegal alien and suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, saying, "It is not okay to detain and to disappear American citizens or anyone without due process."

She praised the actions of congressional Democrats resisting the Trump administration, naming several lawmakers, including Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.; Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who she said "all in different ways, have been speaking with moral clarity about this moment."

The former vice president said she was inspired by the Democrat's electoral victory in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election as well as "the courage of judges to uphold the rule of law" and "universities that are defying unconstitutional demands that threaten the pursuit of truth and academic independence."

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Harris went on to say that "if Congress fails to do its part, or if the courts fail to do their part, or if both do their part, but the president defies them anyway. Well, friends, that is called a constitutional crisis."

Harris gave her speech at Emerge's 20th anniversary gala in San Francisco. Emerge, a training organization that seeks to prepare Democratic women to run for office, charged $25 for viewers to gain access to the virtual livestream. Other package options included a $100 fee for young professionals and a $250 general admission ticket. 

The former vice president did not address rumors that she may be considering a run for governor of California. 

Fox News Digital's Diana Stancy contributed to this report.