ASHEVILLE, N.C. — What Jeffrey Burroughs woke up to on the morning of September 27, 2024, was the stuff of nightmares.
“We get out of our car, we’re standing on the bridge right over here, and we’re literally watching the dreams of our district, the cultural heartbeat of our district, just surging down the French Broad,” Burroughs recalls solemnly.
The damage was truly astounding. Homes, businesses, entire livelihoods washed away in an instant…