Thursday, January 21, 2021
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Jan 21's Weather Overcast HI: 53.8 LOW: 34.4 Full Forecast (powered by Dark Sky) |
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More than 6,000 homes and businesses remained without power Friday as utility workers and NCDOT crews worked to restore power and repair roads. Read Story »
Tags: hurricanes | floods | tropical storms | Hurricane Zeta
The National Weather Service issued a flood watch for the area as tropical moisture from hurricane Delta spread over the region. The bad weather forced the city to call off the Saturday farmers market in the Historic Seventh Avenue District and to postpone a Council Conversation with council member Lyndsey Simpson. Read Story »
Tags: hurricanes | Council Conversations
Tags: hurricanes | Hurricane Michael 2018
“Dadgum thieving rascals” broke into a trailer storing hurricane relief supplies and stole a pressure washer, tools, food, diapers and other donated items overnight Tuesday, officials said. Read Story »
Tags: charities | hurricanes | Hurricane Florence | Hurricane Michael 2018
A local group is collecting paper goods, diapers, soap, cleaning supplies, canned food, toiletries and other items for victims of Hurricane Florence in Eastern North Carolina. The collection site at old Food Lion parking lot across from the new Publix is open until 5:30 p.m. today. Read Story »
Tags: hurricanes | Hurricane Florence | disaster relief
A local group is collecting paper goods, diapers, soap, cleaning supplies, canned food, toiletries and other items for victims of Hurricane Florence in Eastern North Carolina. The drive will start Thursday morning when volunteers staff a collection site at the old Food Lion parking lot. Read Story »
Tags: hurricanes | floods | Hurricane Florence
The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning shortly afternoon today lasting until 5:15 p.m. and warned of dangerous flooding in the Bat Cave and Chimney Rock area, Saluda and Tryon and along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Read Story »
Tags: hurricanes | Hurricane Florence
Henderson County declared a state of emergency starting at 6 p.m. Thursday as first responders and other agencies make preparations for the arrival of Hurricane Florence this weekend. Read Story »
Tags: hurricanes | Hurricane Florence
Hurricane Florence could bring 6-10 inches of rain to the Hendersonville area when it moves into the mountains late Saturday night, the National Weather Service says. Read Story »
Tags: hurricanes | Hurricane Florence
While Florence heads toward the North Carolina coast with category 4 fury, the N.C. mountains is a week away from feeling any impact and may escape wind and rain altogether. Read Story »
Tags: hurricanes | 2017-18 weather | Hurricane Florence
The Chimney Rock section of Chimney Rock State Park is closed to the public beginning today for work by the N.C. Department of Transportation to restore a one-lane washout of the main entrance road in the park. Read Story »
Tags: hurricanes | floods | 2018 weather | Chimney Rock | tropical storms
Firefighters, sheriff's deputies, swift-water rescue teams and other first responders scrambled to dozens of calls of downed trees, downed power lines and people stranded in their homes or in vehicles as a powerful storm swept through the area Monday afternoon. Read Story »
Tags: Weather | hurricanes | 2017 apple crop | winter 2017-18
More than 50 dogs and cats from Hurricane Harvey ravaged Texas and Louisiana are headed to Asheville's Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Adoption Center. Read Story »
Tags: dogs | hurricanes | cats | Brother Wolf Animal Rescue | no-kill adoption shelters
Flash flooding occurred on the Green River in southern Henderson County, Mud Creek is rising fast and law officers and NCDOT crews are closing roads across the county as the big rain event of 2015 doused the area. Read Story »
Tags: hurricanes | 2015 weather | 2015 drought | October 2015 storm
If vacationers headed to the beach are keeping a wary eye on Tropical Storm Arthur, folks in the mountains have nothing to fear. In fact, by helping to draw a cool air mass across the mountains, the season's first tropical system is a big reason we'll see sunny dry weather over the Fourth of July weekend — perfect for camping, hiking, cookouts and fireworks. Read Story »
Tags: Weather | hurricanes