Blowing Rock families struggle to get to Boone amid road washouts

BLOWING ROCK, N.C. ( QUEEN CITY NEWS ) — Hurricane Helene’s wrath along the mountains of North Carolina left families with loved ones in Boone with essentially no way to physically get to them.

Friday morning, images began to pour out of Boone which highlighted the true and real-time devastation in the college town.

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This included images of the downtown area under several feet of water and stories of how families were trapped inside their homes.

Friday, Queen City News attempted to get to Boone but was unable to and stopped in Blowing Rock due to the number of blocked roads…

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