‘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.
A North Carolina dam failure is imminent after water levels at the Broad River rose 10 feet in only a few hours from ...
Horrifying footage shows the Chimney Rock area, located just southeast of Ashville, completely destroyed by Hurricane Helene.
Chimney Rock is along U.S. 64 hugging the Broad River in Rutherford County. Lake Lure is located just east of Chimney Rock ...
The Lake Lure Dam is no longer at an imminent risk of failure, emergency management officials in Rutherford County posted on ...
Several counties in western North Carolina are experiencing flooding caused by heavy rain from what was Helene.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — (12 PM) -Rutherford County Emergency Management says air rescue is underway for residents in the ...
In many areas in North Carolina, like Chimney Rock and Asheville ... Emergency Management to issue an immediate ...
Some of the worst regional impacts from Tropical Storm Helene were felt across the North Carolina mountains, including in ...
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