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Residents of western North Carolina try to reconcile with the “once in a thousand years” storm that wasn’t supposed to happen to them.
A Watauga County public park is flooded in Boone, N.C., on Sept. 27, 2024. Rains from what was Hurricane Helene had dropped more than a foot of rain across much of the region. Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images
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