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Asheville Watchdog’s images of Helene’s destruction
Hurricane Helene brought record rainfall and devastation to western North Carolina. In Buncombe County alone, the death toll ...
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City of Asheville officials have appeared sporadically at twice-daily Buncombe storm briefings
Since Friday, Buncombe County has provided twice-daily updates on Hurricane Helene’s devastation. At the briefings, county ...
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Buncombe’s blackout: Severed fiber lines made it impossible to call, text or use data on phones
Nearly 70 percent of western North Carolina’s cell phone towers and equipment are out of service, leaving hundreds of ...
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Potable water finally arrives in Buncombe, days after city and county officials asked the state for assistance
Anticipating widespread damage and water outages from Tropical Storm Helene, the city of Asheville and Buncombe County ...
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‘We are having people go in buckets’: Mission Hospital lacks water, faces waves of patients
Mission Hospital has lacked running water for four days, and as patients have filled its emergency room, nurses have worked and slept overnight in an chaotic environment that poses serious challenges.
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Asheville Watchdog daily cell phone outage update
Hundreds of thousands of western North Carolina residents have limited or no cell phone signal in the wake of Hurricane ...
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Murders spotlight gaps in Buncombe’s protections for domestic violence victims
In the three years before Marilyn Jean Davis was shot dead by her boyfriend in his Woodfin home, two other women had obtained domestic violence protective orders against him. “He put me in a headlock, ...