Historic Asheville, North Carolina flooded after Hurricane Helene
PERRY, Fla. — Authorities rushed to airlift supplies and restore communications and roads in flooded Asheville, North Carolina , on Sunday as residents along the storm-battered Florida coast gathered for church services amid the
“They are watching 18 wheelers and cars floating by,” Turner wrote in an urgent Facebook post on Friday. “I cannot convey in words the sorrow, heartbreak and devastation my sisters and I are going through nor imagine the pain before us,” she wrote. There have been hundreds of water rescues, none more dramatic than in rural Unicoi County in East Tennessee, where dozens of patients and staff wereAnd the rescues continued into the following day in Buncombe County, North Carolina, where part of Asheville was under water.
Standing water and tree debris still covers the grounds of Faith Baptist Church. The church called on parishioners to come “pray for our community” in a message posted to the congregation’s Facebook page.
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