Jerry and Marcia Savage's daughter told USA TODAY her late parents hugged so tightly in their Beech Island home, they had to be pulled apart.

John Savage says he checked on his grandparents in their bedroom as Hurricane Helene roared outside This photo provided by Laurel Lindsay shows Marcia and Jerry Savage, who were killed by a tree that fell and crushed their bedroom during Hurricane Helene.

South Carolina residents Marcia and Jerry Savage were found dead, lying in bed and hugging each other, after a tree fell on their bedroom during Hurricane Helene.

Hurricane Helene has left a wake of death and destruction across Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee after it made landfall in Florida on Sept. 26. Despite being downgraded to a tropical depression, hundreds were killed by the storm, millions are still without power, and the damage is estimated in the billions of dollars.

Searchers are combing the remote mountains of North Carolina to locate the missing and those needing supplies nearly a week after Hurricane Helene barreled through the Southeast. Some roads have been crumbled by the massive flooding from Helene.

One local couple was in the midst of Hurricane Helene’s devastation near Black Mountain and Lake Lure before they made the trek back to their home in North. Sergio Riera and Chris Wolf were at their home in the mountains when they first heard the warnings of Hurricane Helene.