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  • After Helene, the Great Smoky Mountains are desperate for tourists

    After Helene, the Great Smoky Mountains are desperate for tourists

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    October was supposed to be Gianna Carson’s busiest month of the year. Instead, she estimates she’s lost upward of $15,000 since Hurricane Helene hit her Bryson City, North Carolina, bakery and vacation rental a week ago. Now, in addition to the number of bakeshop transactions plummeting from 300 a day to around 50, she said…