The N.C. Department of Transportation has narrowed its search for a place to quarry stone needed to restore the eastbound lanes destroyed by the remnants of Hurricane Helene.

Rocks have shifted, channels have widened and the Pigeon River flows past interstate construction. But Tennessee rafting business is back in Hartford.

Gov. Bill Lee and other state and federal officials traveled to northeast Tennessee on Saturday to survey catastrophic flood damage in several counties in the wake of Tropical Storm Helene.