Nothing like it had ever happened in that part of Appalachia.

Last year, a devastating hurricane blew through the mountains of North Carolina.

Media outlets were throwing around words like historic and unprecedented,

and while a lot of journalists overused terms for shock value, this time they were completely right.

Nothing even close has ever touched down in western North Carolina. Between the rain that

preceded that hurricane's arrival and the storm itself, some counties got up to 30 inches of rain in the matter of a couple of days.

If you lived in the storm's path and were lucky, your home just lost power and your yard lost a couple of trees.

But a lot of people weren't so lucky.

By the time the rain stopped, 100 people had died, and thousands more had become homeless.

Multiple towns are still trying to rebuild their communities to this very day,

and over and over people have asked the same question.

How on earth could this have happened? We as a society are the most technologically

advanced we have ever been. In theory, we can solve almost any problem. We can stand up to any

threat. But time and time again, Mother Nature continues to prove that that just isn't true. We can't

stop hurricanes or wildfires or tornadoes.

We have no solutions for earthquakes or tsunamis. When it comes down to it, despite all our

advances, we have nothing in our arsenal to fight cataclysmic weather events. All we can do is try

to weather the storm. But of course, these tragedies

aren't new. History is full of legends born from the conflict between human cultures and the

world around them. So batten down the hatches and get your evacuation plans ready,

because you never know when a frightening legend might erupt.

I'm Aaron Mankey, and this is lore legends.

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