The town’s pool, itself underwater during the flooding, suffered almost $700,000 in damage.Īll told, Scheuer’s and Walker’s spreadsheet shows $21,325,551 in damage to town property. The Armory, another town-owned building used for events and recreational programming, endured $1.5 million in damage.Ĭamp Hope, a sprawling upriver retreat with overnight cabins and an event venue, saw almost $1 million in damage, including the access bridge to the camp itself. The firehouse behind town hall incurred $4 million but is miraculously still in operation.Īcross the street, the historic town-owned Colonial Theater took on $1.3 million in severe damage that makes town hall look like the Taj Mahal. Cory Vaillancourt photoĪccording to engineering estimates, the Stamey Building sustained $5.2 million in damage and another $2 million in lost equipment. Kegs and brewing equipment were salvaged from the basement of BearWaters Brewing Company on Aug. What it all boils down to is a sad testament to the destructive power of water unbound. “I had some columns and things like that just to make it a little easier to digest, but this is sort of what we’ve been working off from the beginning.” “It’s been simplified a little bit,” Scheuer said. Just up the street, town government now operates out of a modular building, where Town Manager Nick Scheuer and CFO Natalie Walker are busily pouring over a spreadsheet.
The darkened boardroom isn’t much different. On the second floor, the lobby outside the boardroom is strewn with boxes upon boxes of documents hurriedly salvaged from the silty waters of the Pigeon one year ago. 17, 2021, the second day of the school year, Haywood County…
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