Pain makes you miserable. And I should know. For the past 15 years, I've suffered from sciatica, as well as swollen ankles and feet caused partly by arthritis.

As floodwaters roared through remote mountain communities of Western North Carolina, locals raced against time to save each other.

It is midday and Gaudensia Tankobatagira is sitting quietly on a stool beneath the shade of an avocado tree at her home in ...