Exclusive | Mom tells horrifying story of losing son, 7, and parents in Hurricane Helene after taking heartbreaking final photo

The last thing Megan Drye heard from her 7-year-old son Micah was his screams for help after he was washed away in the flood waters of Hurricane Helene.Megan and Micah were separated when they went into the water, and she could not get to him in the raging river.

But, she heard his cries.“Jesus, save me!” she recalled him pleading — until he went quiet.

Dyre lost her son and both her parents in Asheville, North Carolina, after they were caught up in the flash floods that came with Helene — which left at least 227 people dead — a large portion of them in the mountains of Western North Carolina.Dyre recounted her harrowing survival to The Post after her story went viral after her sister Jessica shared the family’s desperate final photos on Facebook.Drye; her parents Michael and Nora, 73; Micah; and the family dog had huddled together on their roof as the nearby river rose and rose.They begged a 911 operator for help.Sections of the house crumbled away and 18-wheeler trucks raced past in the floodwaters from the devastating storm, whose path of devastation But even stuck on the roof, Drye thought the worst that could happen would be a night spent out in the cold – something they could all laugh about later.Then the whole house started to move.“We started drifting in the water.

We were floating.The house was breaking apart,” Drye recalled.The four clung to what remained of the roof, but a tangle of power lines dragged them into the water like leaves under a rake.Drye never saw her son alive again, but for a few seconds, she heard his screams.Drye and her father got caught in the branches of a tree, and she caught a glimpse of her mother floating past, trying to keep her head above water and yelling, “Michah’s back there!”“I was trying to unwind myself from this tree so I could get to my son, but I was stuck.

Every time I let go, the water was pushing me back.It was pushing buildings, cars, trailers.

I had no chance to swim back,” Drye sa...