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Asheville's vibrant arts scene has powered its economy. Rebuilding will be hard.
A line painted on the side of a building in Asheville, North Carolina’s River Arts District marks how far waters rose in 1916, when massive floods ravaged what was then the city’s bustling warehouse hub. As Hurricane Helene inundated the western part of the state last week, floodwaters met that line and kept rising.
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