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‘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.

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Helene's flooding flattens Chimney Rock, NC: 'Everything along the river is gone'

Search and rescue workers were fanning through the small town of Chimney Rock east of Asheville Monday after it was almost entirely wiped out.

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Chimney Rock business district washed away by Hurricane Helene

Gale's Chimney Rock Shop, a souvenir shop, stood in downtown Chimney Rock since 1947. While the building survived the rush of Hurricane Helene, "inside is a disaster."

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‘There’s nothing there’: The beloved town of Chimney Rock, N.C., is virtually gone

Lake Lure, a popular tourist destination, is now one of many communities that has been both utterly transformed and largely ...

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Iconic Dirty Dancing town wiped off the map by Hurricane Helene

The village made famous by the movie Dirty Dancing has been all but wiped out by Hurricane Helene. Chimney Rock in North ...

Watch western NC rivers on live web cams as Helene moves through the state

Potentially catastrophic rainfall is predicted for the southern Appalachians. Watch rivers rise on these USGS webcams.

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Asheville flooding map: See where rainfall hit, leading to deadly floods in Western North Carolina

This map shows rainfall from Helene and in the days preceding the storm that combined to create disastrous flooding.

Stranded residents near Chimney Rock, North Carolina hike to safety

Residents near Lake Lure banded together and faced dangerous conditions from Helene's deadly flooding to make it to the evacuation point in Chimney Rock, North Carolina. This video taken over the ...

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