chimney

All that was left of one home on Valley Vista Drive was a chimney and a burned washing machine.

And that’s why North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards, representing western North Carolina, had to issue a press release including, among other things, the following sentence: “Hurricane Helene was NOT geoengineered by the government to seize and access lithium deposits in Chimney Rock.”

Damage in the Lake Lure/Chimney Rock area of North Carolina is being described as post-apocalyptic, with the lake’s surface almost completely covered by debris from destroyed houses, docks, and commercial buildings.

On the north side of Highway 2 on Wednesday, fire lapped at thick vegetation that surrounded a two-story house with a brick chimney.

The process envelops you in intrigue: We see the furnace and the chimney, the ceremonial stitching together of cast slips of paper.