Flooded scene depicting and captioned “Hurricane Helene dropped more than two feet of rain on Spruce Pine North Carolina. The town is home to one of the world’s only sources of high purity quartz— which is used to manufacture silicon chips and solar panels.” Picture by Spencer Bost.
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