‘It’s Our Hurricane Katrina’: Asheville Residents Describe Death, Destruction, Danger After Hurricane Helene
Asheville residents have no running water nor electricity; homeless shelters are full, with waitlists; and authorities are warning of crime and lootings.
ASHEVILLE, N.C.—Tunnel Road is a major thoroughfare between Asheville and the Swannanoa Valley in western North Carolina. Before Hurricane Helene, hundreds of cars would cross a bridge there en route to downtown Asheville, cottages in the Blue Ridge Mountains, or Interstate 40 headed East or West.
That bridge is now blocked. The wreckage of an entire house is on top of it, deposited by the swell of flooding.
