Much of the village of Chimney Rock has been wiped out by massive flooding from Helene, according to reports from the village. “The damage is unimaginable,” rescue crews from Pamlico County said in a social media post,

Tracy Stevens had left her house in Chimney Rock Thursday night and gotten a room at the Lake Lure Inn, which had a generator and was staying open through the storm. The two towns, both popular tourist destinations, are walking distance to one another, joined by a bridge across the Broad River in the mountains of Rutherford County.