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.

Complete devastation has been unfolding in North Carolina as Hurricane Helene unleashed days of flooding. Images from Chimney Rock, located near Asheville, was one of the many cities destroyed by historic flooding.