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This satellite image released by Maxar Technologies shows flooding from Hurricane Helene by the North Toe River and downtown in Spruce Pine, N.C., on Oct. 2, 2024. / Credit: Maxar Technologies / AP
Sheet music sits on a mud-caked floor inside Majestic Music in downtown Spruce Pine, N.C. on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, days after Hurricane Helene brought heavy flooding to the area. Show comments ...
Spruce Pine - 24.12 inches Busick - 30.78 inches A crowd gathers the morning of Sept. 28 at the West Asheville Fire Station on Haywood Street where there is Wi-Fi.
Flooding on U.S. Route 64, facing west, in Henderson County on September 27, 2024. Of the 241 people reported victims of Hurricane Helene in the United States, 119 people were in North Carolina, surpassing the state record of 80 deaths recorded in a 1916 flood.
Flooding caused by Hurricane Helene seen in Asheville, North Carolina on Sept. 29, 2024. ... Spruce Pine, was doused with over 2 feet of rain from Tuesday through Saturday. ... the most the city ...
Spruce Pine is the exclusive supplier of sand to Augusta National Golf Club. The town suffered flooding and devastation as a result of Hurricane Helene in 2024. Spruce Pine has high-purity quartz, a mineral required in a variety of important products, such as semiconductors. [7] [8] [9] View the Spruce Pine Mining District article for further ...
In 2008, a fire at a Spruce Pine quartz refinery “temporarily brought production to a halt and impacted the market,” reported Global Risk Intel, a Washington D.C.-based consulting firm.
Construction of the lake was completed in 1981, [3] and resulted in the flooding of the community of Shaw, West Virginia and the realignment of West Virginia Route 46. [4] The dam, rolled earth and rock fill, is 296 feet (90 m) high, has a crest length of 2,130 feet (650 m) and contains 10 million cubic yards (7.6 × 10 ^ 6 m 3 ) of material.