Nearly 1,000 properties damaged or destroyed, with many more …
Oct 16, 2024 · Jimmy Brissie, the county’s emergency services director, told county commissioners during their regular monthly meeting that ongoing assessments by officials from various agencies so far have found that 798 structures, including homes, sustained major structural damage and are uninhabitable until they are repaired.
Team visits this week to explain program that buys out, raises or …
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630k still without power - Hendersonville Lightning
Sep 29, 2024 · By Bill Moss, Published: September 29, 2024 Swiftwater rescue teams from the area and across the state have rescued more than 200 people since Tropical Storm Helene approached the N.C. mountains, U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards said in his Sunday update on the circumstances on the ground.
Half the county remains without power - Hendersonville Lightning
Oct 5, 2024 · By Lightning Reports, Published: October 5, 2024 Nearly half of Henderson County homes and businesses remained without power Saturday nine days after Hurricane Helene ripped a wide swath of destruction through the county.
Obituaries - Hendersonville Lightning
Jun 11, 2024 · Elizabeth deRosset Maybank Guérard Wright. Elizabeth deRosset Maybank Guérard Wright. Elizabeth “Libby” deRosset Maybank Guérard Wright, 93, died peacefully Thursday, August 1, 2024, at the Bishop Gadsden Episcopal Retirement Community.
Food and water on the way; utility and road crews at work
Sep 28, 2024 · By Lightning Reports, Published: September 28, 2024 Potable water and food, fuel for first responders is on the way and more than 1,500 state workers have deployed to Western North Carolina to help reopen roads closed because of tree and debris obstruction or flooding, U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards said in a news release Saturday.
Flash flood warning extended — again — Duke stages crews, …
Sep 26, 2024 · The National Weather Service has extended a flash flood warning until 5 p.m. Thursday. Meanwhile, as flooding worsened, Henderson County opened an emergency shelter at the county Athletics and Activity Center, 708 S. Grove St., and first responders made numerous rescues of people from flooded homes and stranded vehicles.
'We’re seeing areas flood we’ve never seen flood before'
Sep 26, 2024 · By Bill Moss, Published: September 26, 2024 Comparing Hurricane Helene to the catastrophic flood of 1916, Buncombe and Henderson county emergency managers and leaders urged people along rivers to leave their homes before historic flooding arrives.. After a prestorm deluge dumped up to 16 inches of rain on the area, Helene is expected to bring driving rain plus wind gusts of up to 65 mph ...
Flood overwhelms water plant, breaks lines, knocks out …
Sep 28, 2024 · By Bill Moss, Published: September 28, 2024 Floodwaters from Tropical Storm Helene have overwhelmed Hendersonville's water and wastewater treatment plants, reducing the water plant's capacity and knocking out the sewage treatment plant.
Lightning moves to 619 Spartanburg Highway
Nov 22, 2024 · After 12 years at 1111 Asheville Highway, the Lightning has moved to 619 Spartanburg Highway just west of what used to be Wendy’s, across the road from McDonald’s and immediately east of the Ingles gas pumps.