Western North Carolina inn owners rebuilding after Hurricane Helene

Poignant Hurricane Helene book includes Cocke County stories

Western North Carolina author Julianne Kuykendall Rhodes has released her latest book, a non-fiction book titled “Mountain Tsunami II: True Flood Stories of Hurricane Helene’s Historic Havoc on the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina & East Tennessee.”

Exhibit highlights Hurricane Helene's impact on CSRA community

AUGUSTA, Ga (WJBF) - A special exhibition showing the impact of Hurricane Helene had on the CSRA nearly a year later. Through photography, film and videography artists are showing how Hurricane Helene devastated our landscape while also showing our community’s resilience. The exhibit is at the Jessye Norman School of the Arts; Mark Albertin is a photographer and film maker but is also the curator for the exhibit.  He says when he was judging whi…

Western North Carolina inn owners rebuilding after Hurricane Helene

(WGHP) -- When you’ve gotten knocked down and do the hard work of getting back up, you kind of hope you could at least start life close to your knock-down point. That’s not happening for Carter Francois and his business partner, Steve Carlsen. They own the Alpine Inn. Half of the inn’s rooms and its lobby washed down the side of a mountain during Hurricane Helene, and they've spent the 11 months since rebuilding and remodeling the six rooms that…