DeWayne Barton is co-founder of Peace Gardens and Market, Hood Huggers International, and Blue Note Junction in Asheville, N.C.
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After Hurricane Helene
12-09-2024
“This area was supposed to be a climate haven.”
Photo by Mario Tama / Getty Images
IT MUST HAVE rained for three straight days, all day. It just kept raining and raining. When [Hurricane Helene] hit, the cell phone was out, the power was out, and just trees [down] everywhere, huge trees on homes. All the streets were blocked with trees, trees coming out of the ground. And then going down to the [Swannanoa] river and seeing it: It was devastating.