LAKE LURE, N.C. ( QUEEN CITY NEWS ) — For a split-second, it sounded like thunder. Both Mike and Susan Coffey were sitting in silence, trying to figure out what was happening outside their Lake Lure home as the winds and rain from Hurricane Helene hammered the North Carolina mountains.
The Coffeys and their cat were the only two living beings inside their mountainside home that sits along the Broad River.
In the next split-second, they both knew the sounds below them weren’t coming from the heavens. They didn’t know it then, but those sounds outside were the sound of millions of gallons of flood waters, raining down hell along the river’s path through Lake Lure.
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“We started to hear a lot of noise,” Susan said, “Rumbling. Rumbling – wasn’t thunder. What’s this weird rumbling?”…