Ashville Helene Damage: More than 900,000 without power, flash flood emergency underway 

The National Weather Service believes Helene's arrival in western North Carolina could be one of the region's most significant weather events of the modern era.
The guidance serves as a stern warning for North Carolinians in the mountains, with flood totals projected to be comparable to the 1916 flood in the Asheville area. Weather officials with the Greenville-Spartanburg bureau of the NWS expect the impact to be greater than that of Tropical Storm Fred, which caused at least five deaths in Haywood County in 2021. The mountains could see wind gusts of 70 mph in higher elevations and 50 mph in lower elevations. Life-threatening flooding and landslides are likely Thursday and Friday as the storm dumps heavy rain, according to WRAL meteorologist Aimee Wilmoth.
Conditions were deteriorating Thursday afternoon. The worst of the rain should move away from western North Carolina by noon on Friday, but impacts could last for days or longer.
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