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Buncombe County family rescued from roof after Helene floods their home in Swannanoa
A Buncombe County family narrowly escaped their flooded home during Hurricane Helene. Rescuers had to pull them off their roof to safety after they were stranded for hours. The only way out for the family of four was through a window in their laundry room, which led them to the roof of their home in Swannanoa, a hard-hit area east of Asheville.
No cell service: Estimated 90% of Asheville is offline as people struggle to reach loved ones
With a lack of cellular service, Asheville and surrounding areas have become black holes for communication in the wake of Helene, especially as loved ones struggle to connect with people they haven’t heard from. An analysis of outages from NetBlocks shows the communities of Waynesville and Hendersonville are completely...
Chimney Rock, Lake Lure residents seek info on friends, family after Helene: 'Once a town is now a river'
Search and rescue workers were fanning through the small town of Chimney Rock east of Asheville early Monday after it was almost entirely wiped out flooding from Tropical Storm Helene. Residents in the neighboring resort town of Lake Lure said Chimney Rock was largely flattened. “Everything along the river is gone,” said Tracey Stevens,...
Asheville tragedy shows there are no climate change safe havens: Experts
Asheville, North Carolina, has been called a potential safe haven for climate refugees by real estate researchers, praised for its temperate mountain weather, distance far from the coast, experiencing less extreme heat and fewer wildfires. The city of around 95,000 people was believed markings of a place where those escaping the harsh impacts of the climate crisis could go for safety. Certainly, there are locations that are going to be able to withstand some of those impacts more than others, according to Dave Reidmiller, the director of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute's Climate Center. However, the fatal floods and landslides seen after Helene ripped through Buncombe County, which encompasses Asheville, highlight that "no place is truly untouched by climate change, anywhere in the world," said Reidmiller. Asheville is nearly 400 miles away from where the storm made landfall in Florida last Thursday.
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