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PHOTOS: Helene's impacts on the Carolinas and beyond

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Lake Lure, N.C. (Tariq Bokhari)
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Damage from Helene in Laurens, S.C., on Saturday, Sept 29, 2024. (Stephen Crotts / scrotts.com)
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Interstate 40 near Black Mountain.  ( North Carolina Department of Transportation)
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A tree down in a residential area in upstate South Carolina.  (Duke Energy)
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Teresa Elder walks through a flooded Sandy Cove Drive, from Hurricane Helene Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in Morganton, N.C.  (Kathy Kmonicek / AP)
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Lake Lure, N.C. (Tariq Bokhari)
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Lake Lure, N.C. on Sept. 29.  (Tariq Bokhari)
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People left their phones to charge at some of the few public operational outlets in Shelby, N.C., on Saturday, Sept. 29. These are outside of a Dollar Tree store that had run out of water.  (Zachary Turner / WFAE News)
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Shelves were bare at a Walmart in Gastonia, N.C., on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, after Tropical Storm Helene.  (Zachary Turner / WFAE News )
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A home in Swannanoa Valley, N.C., where resident Jody Flemming describes the destruction from flooding. Flemming says he and his neighbors are trapped as washed-out roads and bridges make it impossible to leave for essentials.  (Jody Flemming / BPR News )
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Caney Fork flooding the new bridge on Hooper Cemetery Road  (Anna Fariello / BPR News )
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Line of cars waiting to purchase gas at the Shell station at the intersection of Merrimon Avenue and Cherry Street in Asheville, N.C., on the morning of Sept. 28, 2024. (Laura Hackett / BPR )
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A mudslide in McDowell County, east of Asheville, N.C.  (NCDOT / Handout )
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The floodgates were opened at Oxford Dam over Lake Hickory as Tropical Storm Helene barreled over North Carolina on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (NCDOT)
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A police car and barricade block Monroe Road at Thermal Road in Charlotte, N.C., during Tropical Storm Helene.  (Ely Portillo / WFAE )
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