Shocking footage shows how a picturesque North Carolina village was nearly wiped out by Hurricane Helene – as the storm’s death toll rose to 107 as desperate rescue missions continued across the Southwest on Monday.

Chimney Rock initially seemed to have escaped Helene’s wrath — until floodwaters overtook a dam on Saturday, overrunning the area and destroying nearly everything in sight, the News & Observer noted.

“The village? There’s just nothing left,” rescue crew leader Chris Murray told the newspaper.

“I have never seen such concentrated damage as here.”

Helene passed through six states, first making landfall in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, leaving millions without power and communications. But North Carolina was hardest hit: At least 30 of the more than 100 deaths were from the Tar Heel State, while hundreds more remained missing.

In Chimney Rock, photos show the once idyllic village covered in mud and debris, with about half of the businesses on the south side of town, near Broad River, gone in the massive flooding.

“The damage is unimaginable,” Pamlico County rescue crews said this weekend.

A terrifying video, with the sound of blaring sirens, showed the violent flooding from Hurricane Helene ravaging the village on Saturday.

The clip begins with a powerful wave of muddy water rushing over a garden in Chimney Rock, ripping off chunks of a house and dragging debris along with the tide.

‘My car is gone. Everything is gone. It’s all gone,” the unidentified filmmaker can be heard saying, as a second person hurriedly reassures them: “It’s okay.”

The flood waters were strong enough to cause SUVs and roads to be washed away and destroyed.

Meanwhile, other parts of the Southwest were ravaged by the storm’s path, prompting massive rescue efforts.

FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell toured South Georgia on Sunday and planned to be in North Carolina on Monday.

“It’s still an active search and rescue mission” in western North Carolina, Criswell said. “And we know that there are many communities that have been cut off due to the geography of the mountains, where damage to roads and bridges has cut off certain areas.

A North Carolina county that includes the mountain city of Asheville reported that 30 people died as a result of the storm, and several other fatalities reported in North Carolina on Sunday pushed the total death toll to at least 91 people across several states.

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper predicted the toll would rise as rescuers and other responders reached areas isolated by collapsed roads, failing infrastructure and widespread flooding.

Supplies were airlifted to the region around the isolated city. Buncombe County Manager Avril Pinder promised she would have food and water in Ashville by Monday.

“My staff has made every possible request for support to the state and we have worked with every organization that has reached out. What I promise you is that we are very close,” Buncombe County Manager Avril Pinder said during a Sunday call with reporters.

He asked residents in western North Carolina to avoid travel as more than 50 search teams spread through the region to look for stranded people.

One rescue rescued 41 people north of Asheville. Another mission focused on saving one child. The teams found people through both 911 calls and social media posts, said Adjutant General Todd Hunt of the North Carolina National Guard.

Tampa Bay, Florida was also hit by a massive storm surge that sent water into people’s attics.

Atlanta received more than 12 inches of rain, more than any 48-hour period in history. In South Carolina, so many trees were toppled that at one point more than 40 percent of the state lost electricity.

Among the more than two dozen people killed in Georgia were a 27-year-old mother and her 1-month-old twins Friday when trees fell on their home in Thomson, just west of Augusta.

“I currently have two people who need oxygen and need generators, and one person who is on dialysis and needs one. Is there anyone with electricity who would like to borrow their generator? I will handle delivery and returns,” South Carolina representative Neal Collins wrote on X, imploring users to contact him so he could make rescue efforts.

President Biden on Saturday pledged federal government assistance for the “overwhelming” devastation of Helene. He also approved a disaster declaration for North Carolina, making federal funding available for affected individuals.

with post wires