Polk County
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Oct 15, 2026
Derek SpechtHOST
So yeah, it's, even two years later, they're still working towards it.
Sean RowleyHOST
So the water of the Green River rushes over Boulder's bedrock near Henderson, Polk County.
Sean RowleyHOST
Uh, just upstream stands the Tuxedo Hydrolexic- Hydroelectric Station, a mess of industrial wreckage full of piles of red brick, broken glass, and dangling steel roof trusses.
Derek SpechtHOST
It got taken out.
speaker_0HOST
The next question was, tell us about the family.
John ConnetGUEST
Yeah, so my wife's a teacher down at Polk County, 30-year teacher.
John ConnetGUEST
Wow.
John ConnetGUEST
So teaches at Polk High, loves it down there.
Mason AdamsHOST
Folkways reporter Eliza Benbow spent time with the kudzu warriors in western North Carolina and has this.
Eliza BenbowCORRESPONDENT
It's a Monday morning in June, and a hilltop in the Norman Wilder Forest in Polk County, North Carolina, has become a battlefield.
Don DiceySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The enemy?
speaker_8UNKNOWN
A relentless, invasive
Leigh BrownHOST
So you're in real estate in the mountains.
Leigh BrownHOST
You spearhead our Western North Carolina location, along with Rena Hart, who's in McDowell County, and with Beth Greene, who's in Rutherford and Polk County.
Leigh BrownHOST
What are you hearing when people want to sell related to the storm? What questions do you have to ask them? Do you have to ask them about how they spent their FEMA money or their insurance money, or what are you seeing on the ground?
Starr FranklinGUEST
No, actually what I'm seeing is more of the question about listing, like, are you on a floodplain now? So see, that's a big deal because, see, that, we have to disclose that.