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>were you there during helene?

Chimney Rock Park is actually open again; but there's only one road in and the lake has been drained as low as it can go behind the dam so they can make repairs.

I live on Lake Lure on the side next to Chimney Rock and yeah, I was here during Helene. The lake rose up 20 feet and put my boat up on top of my dock, the only bridge to my house got washed out and we were stuck here. Fortunately I had a generator, a well, a bunch of canned goods and a satellite dish as well as a neighbor who had Starlink so I was lucky compared to the poor people further up the gorge in Chimney Rock and Bat Cave. Took about two weeks for them to build a little ford where you could get a car with all wheel drive across, took another two months to get a one lane gravel bridge which is still what we're using.

The whole river is about twice the width it was before and the road up the mountain is still closed to anyone but locals. Geologists are studying it as a "geologic event" saying there hasn't been anything like this since the last ice age. The army corp of engineers has taken a million tons of debris and sediment out of the lake and they're still working.

On a side note the Amish have been here since the flood and they've been working non stop to rebuild people's homes. They don't even live near here but they've been coming down from Pennsylvania to help us for the past year. Those Luddites are alright.