SWANNANOA, N.C. (WGHP) -- Swannanoa business owners are making progress cleaning up after western North Carolina was devastated by Helene. “We are not OK ... There is progress. We are moving forward. We have not sat still. We haven’t stopped since this started,” Jenica Grooms said. She and her husband lost their businesses in Swannanoa.   Cell phone service, power and some water have returned to their small town, but the Grooms’ income, business and livelihood are gone. Their business is a pile of debris like many others across Swannanoa. Business owners are now looking at the mess and trying to figure out what comes next and how to pick up the pieces. But things just got a little more complicated as the Small Business Administration says they're temporarily out of funds, which leaves all these business owners confused about what to do next, and all they can do is wait. But that doesn’t mean they sit still. Grooms spends her days volunteering at a central hub in Black Mountain full of food, supplies and showers. “We have been trying to make it easy for people to find what they need,” Grooms said. It’s a bit different than her usual day spent at Dark City Customs. “You just stay busy. You do what you can ... For many of us, we don’t know how to sit still. You almost feel guilty sitting still,” Grooms said. It’s a good use of time and a good distraction as a big decision looms. “We still have a plan A, plan B and plan C,” Grooms said. With no sign of loans from the SBA and no clue what insurance will do, Grooms says they either start over, create a new business or sell and move on. “It is exhausting, but I think many of us are running off of adrenaline still ... Once you slow down, your brain starts racing of all the things you could have done, could have changed, what is going to happen, and we can’t control anything from the past ... Right now, we can’t control anything for our future,” Grooms said.   Her time and effort are what she can control. “We have been digging ourselves into the community,” Grooms said. Hundreds of people stop by the Black Mountain Pool every day to all of the stations, including food cooked by a crew out of Maryland, essential supplies and clothes donated by strangers. “I think the fear of having donations stop soon is scaring people, so they are starting to stock up as they should. We do know this is going to end,” Grooms said. But perhaps the most important stop is a warm shower. “It was the only viable spot of water anywhere around,” said Beth Dalton-Rathbone, the aquatics manager at Black Mountain. They hung up some tarps, heated water on turkey fryers and put the water in black tubs to stay warm all to have a shower. But all these innovative ideas and the volunteers that make it happen are what matters most. “That small bit of faith and hope is what is going to allow us to build over the next couple of years,” Dalton-Rathbone said. They might not have jobs or an income yet, but their hearts are full of hope. “We had to do what we needed to do to take care of the community,” Grooms said. As communities get more organized, so do the centralized hubs. They are places for people to come get the essentials they need and to have a moment together. The entire community is unsure exactly how the weeks and the months ahead are going to play out, but they know that they can do it together.