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SWANNANOA, N.C. — Flattened homes, impassable roads, swamped fields, downed power lines, raw emotions. Nearly a week after Hurricane Helene pummeled this small mountain town 20 miles east of ...
Near Lake Lure, North Carolina, where iconic scenes from the movie "Dirty Dancing" were filmed, the flow in Cove Creek rocketed up with 32 times more water between Tuesday and Thursday, according ...
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.
A North Carolina county that includes the mountain city of Asheville reported 30 people killed due to the storm. Getty Images Tampa Bay, Florida, was also blasted with a massive storm surge that ...
The Clean Smokestacks Act of 2002 (S.L. 2002–4), [28] enacted by the North Carolina General Assembly, is credited with reducing the amount of particulate and ozone pollution that had once threatened the views in the Black Mountains and throughout the Appalachians. Nitrogen Oxide emissions have plummeted from over 245,000 tons a year in 1998 ...
Black Mountain is the site of the Three Billboards featured in the 2017 film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, with one billboard exposed in April 2016, with the other two covered up. [23] Black Mountain is featured in the 2009 novel One Second After and its subsequent sequels by William R. Forstchen, a town resident. Many local ...
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 power of water.’
Lovćen (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Ловћен, pronounced [lôːftɕen]) is a mountain and national park in southwestern Montenegro. It is the inspiration behind the names Montenegro and Crna Gora, both of which mean 'Black Mountain' and refer to the appearance of Mount Lovćen when covered in dense forests. [1]