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There is little left of the tourist village of Chimney Rock after flood waters from Tropical Storm Helene swallowed it. ... one person speculated on the town being bulldozed spurring officials to ...
In Chimney Rock, photos show the once-idyllic village covered in mud and debris, with about half of the businesses on the southern side of the town near Broad River gone from the massive flooding.
Mayor Peter O'Leary says Chimney Rock will rebuild, but he wonders: Will the support it's getting be there two years from now?
Chimney Rock is a village in Rutherford County, North Carolina, United States. [1] The population was 140 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] The village took its name from a large gneiss outcrop located on a summit above the village itself in Chimney Rock State Park .
The storm decimated Chimney Rock, N.C., a historic mountain town 20 miles southeast of Asheville. It’s virtually gone. Floodwaters leveled buildings and washed away roads and bridges.
Residents in the neighboring resort town of Lake Lure said Chimney Rock was largely flattened. “Everything along the river is gone,” said Tracey Stevens, who worked at the Chimney Rock brewery ...
Chimney Rock State Park is a North Carolina state park in Chimney Rock, Rutherford County, North Carolina in the United States. The 8,014-acre (32.43 km 2 ) [ 1 ] park is located 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Asheville , North Carolina, and is owned and managed by the state of North Carolina.
The National Weather Service reported that in some places just west of the two communities, more than 19 inches of rain fell. And it kept falling, down the mountainsides and into the creeks and ...