Lake Lure, a popular tourist destination, is now one of many communities that has been both utterly transformed and largely cut off from the outside world for days after Helene.
Neighbors banded together to help a young family, hiking through dangerous conditions in Chimney Rock, North Carolina, after historic flooding from Hurricane Helene washed away their route to safety.
Heartbreaking images show how a picturesque North Carolina mountain village was all but wiped off the map by Hurricane Helene — with one local mourning, “What was once a town is now a ...