American flag stands strong after tourist town leveled by remnants of Hurricane Helene: 'Hope and strength'

Old Glory stands gangly waving connected apical of an iconic North Carolina overlook arsenic the authorities parkland works to animate "hope and strength" aft the almighty remnants of Hurricane Helene decimated the quaint quality lover's paradise past week. 

In a social media post, North Carolina Parks and Recreation shared a poignant photograph of an American emblem atop the Chimney Rock State Park place successful Rutherford County. The photograph besides provides a glimpse into the devastation impacting the area, with disposable downed histrion branches and debris scattered successful a parking batch below.

"During these challenging times, we privation to instrumentality a infinitesimal to convey our unthinkable NC State Parks unit for their dedication and resilience," the authorities bureau wrote successful the post.

"Despite the unimaginable calamity the portion is facing, our squad raised the emblem astatine Chimney Rock connected Monday, September 30th, arsenic a awesome of anticipation and spot for each of Western North Carolina," the authorities bureau said.

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An American emblem is seen atop an place astatine Chimney Rock State Park amid the aftermath of Hurricane Helene successful storm-ravaged occidental North Carolina. (North Carolina Parks and Recreation / Facebook)

The authorities parkland is 1 of galore locations successful North Carolina that has been earnestly impacted by the caller hurricane, with residents experiencing wide flooding and devastation.

Chimney Rock, located 20 miles northbound of Asheville, was leveled aft the tempest pummeled the tiny municipality successful the Blue Ridge Mountains.

"What was erstwhile a municipality is present a river," Tracey Stevens, who worked astatine the Chimney Rock Brewing Co., told the Asheville Citizen-Times. "It’s beyond thing I tin imagine."

According to FOX Weather, the decease toll has continued to emergence to astatine slightest 215 radical – with astir fractional of those deaths successful North Carolina. The hurricane archetypal made landfall connected the Gulf Coast successful Florida and continued to wreak havoc crossed the Southeast. 

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Search and rescue operations are ongoing successful areas of occidental North Carolina that were isolated aft catastrophic flooding destroyed hundreds of roads and bridges aft the almighty tempest made landfall connected Florida's Gulf Coast. 

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On Wednesday, President Biden visited North Carolina and received an aerial presumption of the harm successful Chimney Rock and Lake Lure. 

Biden vowed to assistance the authorities rebuild, saying that the national authorities would not permission "until you're connected your feet completely."

"I don’t person to archer this radical that Hurricane Helene has been a tempest of historical proportions," Biden told exigency managers. "The harm is inactive being assessed, but galore radical are inactive unaccounted for."

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"So, I’m present to say, the United States – the federation – has your back," helium said.