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Mapping Landslide Risk in the United States and Puerto Rico
A new method provides highly accurate continental-scale landslide susceptibility maps that are being used in the aftermath of ...
Winston-Salem Journal4d
Search crews with cadaver dogs wade through muck of communities ‘wiped off the map’ by Helene
“Communities were wiped off the map,” North Carolina’s governor, Roy Cooper, said at a news conference Tuesday. In Swannanoa, a small community outside Asheville, receding floodwaters ...
Parts of Western NC remain closed after Helene — but some towns welcome fall leaf visitors
After Hurricane Helene, it’s tricky determining which areas are safe to visit, see fall leaves and support local shops and ...
Republican leader sees North Carolina as most important state in nation
At Senator JD Vance's town hall in Greensboro Thursday night, the head of the Republican National Committee, Michael Whatley, ...
Rapid analysis finds climate change’s fingerprint on Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene crossed the Gulf of Mexico at a time when sea surface temperatures were at record highs and then barreled ...
‘The mountains will never be the same’; North Carolina lawmakers map first relief bill in the wake of Helene
The NC Legislature included efforts to rebuild water infrastructure, add to funds provided by FEMA and assist with voter ...
Special ops vets form ‘Redneck Air Force’ to ferry aid into NC mountains after feds come up short: ‘Who’s FEMA?’
Hundreds of special operations personnel in North Carolina have formed their own homegrown rescue and supply operation in the ...
Inside the North Carolina mountain town that Hurricane Helene nearly wiped off the map
The stone tower that gave this place its name was nearly a half billion years in the making — heated and thrust upward from ...
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Before-and-after images show Helene wiped parts of North Carolina off the map
New before-and-after aerial photos paint a grim picture of Hurricane Helene’s devastation in parts of western North Carolina that have been hard to access after the storm swiped away the state ...
Politico20d
Why North Carolina wasn’t prepared for Helene
And it might not be ready for the next disaster, either. Few people in western North Carolina have flood insurance, leaving them vulnerable to financial ruin in the wake of disasters such as Helene.
Yahoo News20d
Road closures in Western NC: Map and which roads you can evacuate on
Much of Interstate 40 and Interstate 26 at the Tennessee-North Carolina border were closed over the weekend and on Monday, according to the state's road closures map. Parts of 1-40 have been ...