The National Park Service has reopened U.S. 441, also known as Newfound Gap Road, which runs through Great Smoky Mountains National Park between Cherokee, North Carolina, and Gatlinburg, Tennessee. As on the parkway, commercial vehicles are prohibited on U.S. 441 through the park.

Extensive flooding hit Asheville, North Carolina, on September 28 and 29, with satellite imagery showing the impacts of Hurricane Helene. Video posted on Storyful via Planet Labs showed the mammoth of a storm move into the area leaving a catastrophic wake in its path.

Hurricane Helene arrived on Florida land one week ago in the dark hours between Sept. 26 and 27 and quickly turned its wicked wand toward western North Carolina. By the end of Friday, it was gone, and the sun was out to show us the hell it'd left.