Shoulder of N.C. 105 between Boone and Linville washed away.
Shoulder of N.C. 105 between Boone and Linville washed away.
Circle Drive West, washed out in Vilas, NC.
Circle Drive West, washed out in Vilas, NC.
Bairds Creek Road washed out in Vilas.
A storage shed washed onto a road in Valle Cruces, NC.
The parking lot is wiped out at Mast General store annex in Valle Crucis.
The parking lot is wiped out at Mast General store annex in Valle Crucis.
Clean up at Lily’s snack bar in Boone.
Johann Perez of National Catastrophe Restoration, Inc. (NCRI) removes sheet rock from the First Horizon on US 321.
Debris is visible near U.S. 321 and Winkler Creek in Boone.
Debris is visible near Hwy 321 at Winkler Creek in Boone, NC, Monday Sept. 30 2024.
Footprints in the mud from flooding in front of Vicious Biscuit on Hwy 321 in Boone.
Debris is visible under Hwy 321 at Winkler Creek in Boone, NC, Monday Sept. 30 2024.
Maia Allen and Adam Jackson set up outside of Jackson’s State Farm office to serve customers with claims from Helene on Monday. Piles of damaged carpeting and furnishings from Jackson’s office are piled in the foreground.
Francisco Alcaraz shovels muck from the parking lot of Vicious Biscuit in Boone as people clean up after Helene on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (Walt Unks/Winston-Salem Journal)
Pastor John Mark Brown assembles a water pump to remove flood water from the parking lot at Brush Fork Baptist Church in the Vilas community north of Boone.
Dustin Adams dumps a wheelbarrow of muck and silt shoveled from inside the fellowship hall of Brushy Fork Baptist Church as volunteers clean the church on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. Runoff from a nearby creek filled the first floor of the building, entering through a window behind the church. (Walt Unks/Winston-Salem Journal)
Dumpsters that floated away in the floodwaters of Hurricane Helene are jammed under a bridge on US 321 in Boone on Monday.
A crew at the Walmart on U.S. 321 in Boone cleans up the silt left from flooding during Helene on Monday.
Traffic has been reduced to one lane on N.C. 105 in Boone because of a washout from Helene as seen on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (Walt Unks/Winston-Salem Journal)
Cleaning out silt and muck from fellowship hall at Brushy Fork Baptist Church in Vilas.
Steve Byerly, a member of Boone Advent Christian Church, pressure washes folding tables and chairs damaged when water from Hurricane Helene forced silt and rubble into the fellowship hall at Brushy Creek Baptist Church on Hwy 421 in the Vilas community northwest of Boone. (Walt Unks/Winston-Salem Journal)
A couple inches of silt from flooding during Helene covers the tennis courts along Rivers Street at Appalachian State in Boone on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (Walt Unks/Winston-Salem Journal)
Dustin Adams, a member of Perkinsville Baptist Church, dumps a load of silt and muck shoveled from the fellowship hallp hall at Brushy Creek Baptist Church on Hwy 421 in the Vilas community northwest of Boone. (Walt Unks/Winston-Salem Journal)
Sheets of pavement, construction debris and exposed utilites line are seen along the greenway along with dumpsters that floated away in the floodwaters of Hurricane Helene are jammed under a bridge on Hwy 321 in Boone on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (Walt Unks/Winston-Salem Journal)
Tatum Brown (from left), Will Rizo, Tatum's son, River Brown, 3, and Ali Knight dig through several inches of silt, looking for a drainage grate in the parking lot of Brushy Creek Baptist Church on Hwy 421 in the community of Vilas northwest of Boone on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (Walt Unks/Winston-Salem Journal)
Silt from flooding during Helene that covered the parking lot of Lily's Snack Shack in Boone has been piled for removal on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (Walt Unks/Winston-Salem Journal)
Dustin and Tasha Adams of Perkinsville Church in Boone, shovel silt and muck that was removed from from the Brushy Creek Baptist Church fellowship hall hall in to a wheel barrow as volunteers from several area churches aid in the recovery.Â
A motorist veers to avoid rocks and gravel from a driveway washed on to Broadstone Road near Foscoe on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024.Â
Tatum Brown (foreground), her son, River, 3, and Ali Knight left dig through several inches of silt, looking for a drainage grate in the parking lot of Brushy Creek Baptist Church on Hwy 421 in the community of Vilas northwest of Boone on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024.
Ella Pennell of Howard's Crest Baptist Church in Boone, carries a load of materials to the dumpster from the fellowship hall at Brushy Creek Baptist Church on Hwy 421 in the Vilas community northwest of Boone. Several area churches were helping the church in the recovery after flooding from Hurricane Helene.
Sisters Faith (foreground) and Paige Hagaman of Howard's Crest Baptist Church in Boone, carry loads of materials to the dumpster from the fellowship hall at Brushy Creek Baptist Church on Hwy 421 in the Vilas community northwest of Boone. Several area churches were helping the church in the recovery after flooding from Hurricane Helene.Â
Volunteers shovel several inches of silt and muck from the Brushy Creek Baptist Church fellowship hall hall as volunteers from several area churches aid in the recovery from Hurricane Helene damage.
Asphalt from Cranberry Springs Road near the community of Todd was washed off its road bed by floodwaters from the South Fork New River during Helene.Â
Asphalt from Cranberry Springs Road near the community of Todd was washed off its road bed by floodwaters from the South Fork New River during Helene.Â
Asphalt from Cranberry Springs Road near the community of Todd was washed off its road bed by floodwaters from the South Fork New River during Helene.Â
A crew from SkyLine SkyBest interet service erect a utility pole on Cranberry Springs Road near the community of Todd as services were damaged by floodwaters from the South Fork New River during Helene.
Part of the Mast Annex parking lot in Valle Crucis was washed away by flooding from Helene, as seen Monday, Sept. 30, 2024.
The shoulder of Broadstone road near the Mast Annex in Valle Crucis is washed away from flooding during Helene. The Annex is temporarily closed for clean up but the original store is still open.Â
Mast employee Bobby Couch makes repairs to the Mast Annex parking lot on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024 after flooding from Helene.Â
A motorist drives around a snapped power pole on Broadstone Road near Valle Crucis on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024.
Baird's Creek Road in the community of Vilas, northwest of Boone, has been washed away by flooding from Helene.Â
The shoulder of NC 105 near Boone was washed away from flooding during Helene, as seen on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024.Â
The shoulder of NC 105 near Boone was washed away from flooding during Helene, as seen on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024.Â
NCDOT signs advise motorists not to travel in Western North Carolina because of damage done by Hurricane Helene.Â
Some who rode out the storm were aware of the storm's impact and the challenge ahead. Others learned the true scope as roads began to reopen.
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