Before the aftermath of Hurricane Helene dumped more than 30 inches of rain on some parts of western North Carolina and led to historic flooding that has killed more than 30 people in the mountainous region, Asheville was known as a “climate haven.”
News reports say people were moving to the city that houses the historic Biltmore Estate to escape extreme heat in the summer, sea level rise and hurricanes.
The mudslides and floods that have swept away children and their grandparents and others in the foothills and mountains of North Carolina were a risk that few saw as imminent, say Northeastern University professors Auroop Ganguly and Samuel Munoz.
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Marine and Environmental Sciences
