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last the rising tide with Main Street Comics in Madison , North Carolina
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At the beginning of October , Bleeding Cool reportedthatMain Street Comics and Gamesin downtown Marshall , Madison , North Carolina , which opened in 2021 , was hit by the flooding of the French Broad River after Hurricane Helene . They saw the flood water , which crested at over 22 feet , destroy all the contents of the store , leaving behind " a wake of mud , toxic muck from factories up the river , red of keep , and a dream shatter . " OwnersKyle ClarkandAviawere wait to reopen the only comic book store in Madison County . To that extent , they have launched a GoFundMe , which hasraised over $ 27,000.including $ 3000 from one localDr Warren Strittmatter .
Kyle Clark told ABC13 News,“the waterline was about seven base in the edifice , cresting all the shelving . Right where we had , like , some of the art on the wall , I mean , one was standing . One piece of artwork was standing , and it was the Main Street mark . We got 2 % of our inventory . Everything else was trashed . The original nontextual matter , that ’s a squawk in the stomach . So this is the store now . All against that far wall , ( there were ) thousands of comic book . We had been working and collect those for the shop for 10 year . Seeing all that metre , vigour and purpose just alluvion out … it ’s heartbreaking . We had private insurance policy for our inventory , and they wo n’t cover up it because they said that we do n’t have flood insurance policy for the inventory . And I was just like , OK " .
But he is plan to reopen , somewhere , somewhen , somehow . " People talk to us about , you know , are you going to reopen , would you reopen in Marshall ? This is the only billet that we would reopen . We ’ll get there . It ’s just gon na take a lot of time , a lot of vitality , it ’s a marathon . Yeah , we would n’t want to be anywhere else " .
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