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Inside the North Carolina mountain town that Hurricane Helene nearly wiped off the map

Inside the North Carolina mountain town that Hurricane Helene nearly wiped off the map

By ALLEN G. BREED, AP 

CHIMNEY ROCK VILLAGE, N.C. (AP) — The stone tower that gave this place its name was nearly a half billion years in the making — heated and thrust upward from deep in the Earth, then carved and eroded by wind and water.

But in just a few minutes, nature undid most of what it has taken humans a century and a quarter to build in the North Carolina mountain town of Chimney Rock.

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