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September 29, 2025

On North Carolina's rivers and streams, the cleanup of Helene's fury seems never-ending

  • The worst wreckage has been cleared away, but cleanup crews are still plucking smaller debris from waterways throughout the region.
    • By ALLEN G. BREED and BRITTANY PETERSON
    Associated Press

    AP Photo/Chris Carlson [enlarge]
    Workers clean up debris and mud last week near Chimney Rock, N.C.

    WOODFIN, N.C. — Bracing himself against the current in waist-deep water, Clancy Loorham wrestles a broken length of PVC pipe from the rocky bottom of the French Broad River and peers inside.


     
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