‘There’s just nothing left.’ Helene wipes out Chimney Rock’s Main Street
Tracy Stevens had left her house in Chimney Rock Thursday night and gotten a room at the Lake Lure Inn, which had a generator and was staying open through the storm. The two towns, both popular tourist destinations, are walking distance to one another, joined by a bridge across the Broad River in the mountains of Rutherford County.
Chimney Rock, NC, Wiped out by Historic Flooding
And then worse than the worst happened, as a wall of water came rushing down the Broad River, wiping out most of the structures along Main Street — and Main Street itself — in the Village of Chimney Rock, and straining the dam that holds back Lake Lure.
Horrifying footage shows the Chimney Rock area, located just southeast of Ashville, completely destroyed by Hurricane Helene.
First responders were able to successfully rescue four people and a dog, and evacuate 106 people, two cats, and two dogs.
Potentially catastrophic rainfall is predicted for the southern Appalachians. Watch rivers rise on these USGS webcams.
The Michigan State Police Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division deployed Michigan Task Force 1’s swift-water ...
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An emergency management crew in the east is continuing the rescue efforts in the storm-battered Western North Carolina.
Across North Carolina, many residents are impacted by the devastation left by Tropical Storm Helene, a disaster that has left ...
With so many roads out and power and internet connections down, a full accounting of the damage done is a work in progress.
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