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An area touted as a “climate haven” that’d be safe from the adverse effects of global warming is among the most devastated by Hurricane Helene.
Real estate experts like Jesse Keenan, of Tulane University, said in 2022 that Asheville, North Carolina, was the landing spot for scores of Americans moving in hopes of living somewhere that’d be climate-proof.
Now, however, the mountain city of 94,000 is the site of “biblical devastation,” said one local emergency services official. That comes after Helene made landfall in Florida and quickly moved north, inciting flash floods that wiped some tiny Carolina city’s entire downtowns—like that of nearby Chimney Rock—off the map.
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