Slopes Often Slippery -- The Risks of Living on a Mountain
HendersonvilleNews.com - April 11, 2006 11:24PM

Repairs

by Harrison Metzger

Folks in Bear Rock Estates won't forget the night the hurricane-saturated mountainside tore loose, sending a torrent of mud, trees and rocks hurdling more than 1,000 feet down.

The landslide happened Sept. 8, 2004, as Hurricane Francis pummeled the mountains with rain. But it has only been the last few months that a sense of normalcy has returned with the completion of repairs here.

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