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Korey Hampton sees progress every day as she works along the French Broad River. But, nine months after Hurricane Helene, ...
Hot Springs, N.C., Mayor Abby Norton told CNN’s John King Thursday that recovery in her town has been getting done “faster” ...
Beacon Village, a neighborhood in Swannanoa, North Carolina, is seeing progress with some neighbors finally able to move into ...
The North Carolina Department of Health confirmed 108 storm-related deaths from Hurricane Helene.
Weather warnings predicted devastation from both the Texas floods and Hurricane Helene. But in both disasters, people were ...
North Carolina government calculates Hurricane Helene damages, needs at least $53B Govus hoped archival photos of the 1916 flood publicized before Helene might help warn people about what was coming.
Two days before Helene hit the area, the National Hurricane Center issued an alert warning of "catastrophic and potentially life-threatening flash and urban flooding" in western North Carolina ...
“A hundred years from now, they will be talking about this flood,” said one resident in Western North Carolina, where the extent of the disaster is only beginning to emerge.
In North Carolina, Govus says, nearly 80 people died from Helene's flooding, the majority of them in Buncombe County. "And then also, we live in an area where we have nuisance flooding on a ...
More than 100,000 homes were damaged or destroyed in North Carolina, some 500 miles inland from where it came ashore in Florida. Dozens of people drowned in Helene's floodwaters. The director of ...
Last year, Hurricane Helene alone caused enough freshwater flooding to kill at least 95 people across three states. NPR's Greg Allen has this from Asheville, North Carolina. (SOUNDBITE OF CAR DRIVING) ...