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Eight months after Hurricane Helene flooded regional waterways and took some homes and numerous bridges with it, four of ...
With the start of hurricane season only days away, East Tennessee State University is warning the Tri-Cities region to be prepared in case of another storm’s ...
Mayor Peter O'Leary admits Main Street likely won't reopen until summer sometime. He said nearly a third of businesses were destroyed by last September's flooding.
At the north end of town, all that remains of Bayou Billy’s Chimney Rock Country Fair amusement park is a pile of twisted ...
For the hiking clubs that maintain the 2,197.4-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine, work is usually limited to ...
In the months after Tropical Storm Helene leveled thousands of acres in Pisgah National Forest, John Beaudet and other ...
East Tennessee families still impacted by the September damage from Hurricane Helene have less than a week to apply for federal aid. Germany Deploys Troops on Russia's Doorstep for First Time ...
Like much of Western North Carolina, East Tennessee was saturated with rain before Helene’s arrival ... just downstream from the worst damage in Erwin, the Nolichucky River easily surpassed ...
ERWIN, Tenn. — As this Appalachian town grapples with the loss of its hospital, which was destroyed by floodwaters during Hurricane Helene, a KFF Health News analysis has identified about 20 ...
"It's apocalyptic," said Thigpen, of the damage in Erwin ... Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, Matson works with local officials to plan for worst-case scenarios. Leading up to Hurricane ...
ERWIN, Tenn. — The workers at the Impact Plastics factory were frantic. Muddy water was overflowing from the Nolichucky River in East Tennessee ... stemmed from Hurricane Helene would later ...