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A race to evacuate over 100 animals from Asheville, North Carolina’s main animal shelter ahead of Hurricane Helene’s torrential rains and devastating flooding likely saved all of their lives.

Donnette Keys of Tucson, Arizona, was on the last day of a cross-country road trip to bring her friend home when a mudslide slammed into her truck in western North Carolina.

Firefighters get calls to help cats stuck in trees, but because of the catastrophic flooding from Helene, the fire crew in Kingsport, Tennessee, responded to a call this week to help get a dog who was stranded in a tree.

Video taken on Sept. 27 shows half of a building rushing down the Swannanoa River and being sawed in half by a power pole, narrowly missing the videographer's apartment building.

A three-year-old's birthday was suddenly interrupted by the sound of a massive mudslide barreling toward a North Carolina family of four during Hurricane Helene.

Flooding produced by Hurricane Helene around Asheville exceeded previous records set by catastrophic flooding in 1916. Within a week-long stretch in 1916, back-to-back hurricanes dropped more than 26 inches of rainfall. The death toll from Helene neared 100 in the Tar Heel State less than a week after the remnants of the hurricane moved through the Appalachians.

Damage caused by Helene has led to the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina to close, with no date available for reopening parts of the iconic road.

A group of neighbors in Hendersonville, North Carolina, stood in chest-deep floodwater from Helene to save a cat and two dogs from drowning.

Matt Henson has lived in Asheville, North Carolina, all his life but hardly recognizes his community after Hurricane Helene washed away homes and beloved staples of the vibrant mountain town.

Biologists, along with partners and the general public, have been responding to reports of stranded manatees in Florida.