After three days, a neighbor warned the group that they needed to evacuate by hiking down the mountain or risk being trapped for weeks. So, the 11 of them left their things behind and hiked hours down the mountain through the "treacherous debris."
According to a CBS News report, several of the women on their journey down Elk Mountain got poison ivy, blisters, and bruises, and one ended up hospitalized at home with an infected bee sting.
North Carolina is still reeling from the devastation days after Hurricane Helene ripped through the region. Officials in North Carolina, which saw the worst flooding in a century, are working to get more water, food, and supplies to areas without power and cellphone service.
Hurricane Helene stranded a bride-to-be from Walpole and her 10 friends in the mountains near Asheville, North Carolina, disrupting their bachelorette party.
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