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Western North Carolina was particularly hard-hit, as Helene inundated rivers, washed away roads and cut off communications and cell service, complicating rescue efforts.
The damage wrought by Hurricane Helene was especially extensive in western North Carolina, a region far from the Florida coast where the system made landfall as a Category 4 storm.. The death toll ...
A week after Hurricane Helene roared through, the smell of death overpowers the cool mountain air over the isolated twisting roads of devastated rural western North Carolina.
The North Carolina State Climate Office at North Carolina State University reported that its Mount Mitchell weather station recorded 24.41 in (620 mm) of rainfall. The office referred to the total as "off the charts", comparing it to 16.5 in (420 mm) of rainfall being a once-in-1,000-year flood for the area.
More than 150 deaths have been confirmed since Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm, including dozens in flood-stricken North Carolina. “Communities were wiped off the ...
The Carolina province was divided into separate proprietary colonies, north and south in 1712, before both became royal colonies in 1729. Earlier, along the coast, the Roanoke Colony was established in 1585, re-established in 1587, and found abandoned in 1590.
Heartbreaking images show how a picturesque North Carolina mountain village was all but wiped off the map by Hurricane Helene — with one local mourning, “What was once a town is now a river.”
Brunswick Town, North Carolina is attacked by British soldiers of the Royal Navy ship Cruizer and burns most of the town including St. Philip's Church. [15] [16] Henry Robason settles in the location that will become Robersonville, North Carolina. Forks of the Tar changes to Washington, North Carolina naming it in honor of George Washington.