Source: BLUERIDGE NOW, 5/17/18


Within minutes, John Mahshie’s vision became sand and silt. Mahshie, owner of the nonprofit Veterans Healing Farm near Horse Shoe, received a call from his mother at around 9:30 a.m. during Wednesday’s flash flood that closed roads and saturated land in Henderson County. By the time Mahshie got to the farm, located on the banks of Shaw Creek off Yale Road, water had already reached the facility and drowned recently planted crops meant to grow as gifts for veterans.

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