Over a year after Helene, past all the glossy marketing, this is a city deeply marked by disaster. Beneath the ruins dotting the landscape an even more dire human tragedy is unfolding. The beginning of a Blade series on the crisis after the crisis, and how it got that way
Above: A shattered building in East Asheville, with destroyed vehicles still around it. Photo taken in August
This is the first part of The Crisis After the Crisis, a series on the realities of Asheville after Helene…