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President Biden visited North Carolina on Wednesday and got an aerial view of the damage in Chimney Rock and Lake Lure. The president vowed to help the state rebuild .
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.
After heavy rains from Hurricane Helene, the Broad River flowing into Lake Lure overcame the village of Chimney Rock, N.C., with debris. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images) (Getty Images)
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 .
Some of those buildings had stood since at least the 1950s. A few had gotten wet during historic floods such as one that followed a pair of hurricanes in 1996, “but this is 10 times worse ...
Chimney Rock and Lake Lure in western North Carolina appears to have been devastated by flooding after Hurricane Helene swept through the area. See photos, videos of flooding and damage in Chimney ...
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.
Here are some photos from the past week taken by photojournalists in the Western North Carolina town. This article originally appeared on Asheville Citizen Times: Chimney Rock, NC destroyed? Here ...