The historic Biltmore Village in Asheville, North Carolina, is under several feet of water and it does not seem to be receding.

Several residents are unable to access their homes, and there is no cell service in the city.

NBC News reporters attempted to drive to Charlotte from Asheville and turned around because of a mudslide. The highway is expected to be closed for at least 24 hours.

Photos and videos from the area showed Asheville submerged in water with fallen trees throughout and trash dumpsters floating along.

One man who spoke to NBC News said the amount of flooding "blows my mind," adding that the storm is a "reminder to me that climate change is going to affect all of us."

"No one is safe from the impacts of climate change and we really need to take action now to prevent these kinds of catastrophic events that are destroying our communities," he said.

The storm-hit city of Asheville, North Carolina, has activated a curfew from 7:30 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. ET, according to a statement on X.

"The curfew is to ensure the public’s safety and will be in effect until further notice," the city said.

The city and area experienced catastrophic flooding, with some communities under mandatory evacuation orders. City offices were closed today, some residents were under boil water orders, and public bus routes were shuttered at least until Saturday, according to the city.

The National Weather Service said dangerous rain and wind has moved north, but flooding will continue.

"Significant river and areal flooding will continue over the next several days across the western Carolinas and northeast Georgia, particularly in the vicinity of the mountains and foothills," it said in an advisory today. "We continue to advise against travel unless fleeing rising floodwaters."

A curfew covering the same hours was also announced for nearby Rutherford County.

Heavy rainfall from Hurricane Helene is pushing a major dam past its limits in North Carolina.

Floodwaters overtopped the 124-foot tall Lake Lure hydroelectric dam today, forcing evacuations from the inundation zone downstream. 

The dam’s maximum storage is 44,914 acre-feet, roughly equivalent to the volume of water in 22,500 Olympic swimming pools. 

A structural engineer was on his way to the site on Friday afternoon to assess the dam, whose construction was completed in 1927. The town of Lake Lure was in the process of replacing the dam before it was breached on Friday. 

As a whole, America’s dams — more than 92,000 in total — are aging and many need costly restoration. Few dams were designed for today’s climate, with a warmer atmosphere that can hold and deliver more intense rain.

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The U.S. Army and Army Corps of Engineers have assigned personnel to help Southeastern states with post-hurricane response, the U.S. Army said in a statement today.

Seven emergency operation centers have been set up in storm-ravaged regions, it said.

Additionally, the 249th Engineer Battalion has deployed teams to Maxwell Air Force Base and Craig Airfield in Alabama, the U.S. Army said. The deployment to Maxwell includes two emergency power teams and a "generator staging bay," it said.

Maxwell, in Montgomery, is also site of  Federal Emergency Management Agency staging, where relief supplies are being stocked before being sent to Florida and Georgia, according to NBC affiliate WSFA of Montgomery.

Those two states will also get U.S. Army and Army Corps of Engineers personnel who will likely work on debris removal and infrastructure repair, the U.S. Army said today.

As Helene makes its way north, it continues "producing catastrophic flooding" over parts of the southern Appalachians and the Tennessee Valley, according to the National Hurricane Center's latest update.

The storm is about 50 miles south-southeast of Louisville and moving north-northwest at 17 mph.

Maximum sustained winds are about 35 mph, but gusts are higher than that.

There has not been a catastrophic dam failure in North Carolina near the Tennessee border, officials said this afternoon, bringing some relief.

The city of Newport, Tennessee, posted the update on Facebook, but urged those who have evacuated to stay put as the region is still experiencing a "historic flood event."

Earlier, authorities placed downtown Newport under mandatory evacuation because it was believed the Waterville Dam, also known as the Walters Dam, in Clyde, North Carolina, had failed amid regional flooding.

The city's statement said "it was a false alarm" that came from the state Emergency Management Agency. It cited Newport's fire chief for that information.

Residents were told to continue to shelter in place regardless.

"Avoid traveling through flooded waters," it said. "We are aware many areas have lost power. Please exercise extreme caution in this historic flood event. This is a critical moment for everyone to be a good neighbor and help each other."

At least two tornadoes touched down today in North Carolina, the National Weather Service in Raleigh said.

The service reported at least one in Sampson County at 11:25 a.m. ET and said trees and power lines were down in the area.

At least one other tornado was reported in Nash County at 1:31 p.m. ET. A building in the area was damaged, the NWS said, and 15 people were injured, 4 of them serious. The NWS said 11 buildings were also damaged.

Nearly 200,000 utility customers in Ohio were in the dark today as the post-hurricane front continued to move north, reaching the central region of the state.

About 199,301 customers in the state were without power at 4:30 p.m. ET, according to utility tracker PowerOutage.US.

The number of businesses and homes in the dark throughout Ohio and the Southeast jumped from more than 4 million late this morning to nearly 5 million before evening, according to the tracker.

South Carolina had the most customers without power — more than 1.2 million — this afternoon, the tracker's numbers show. If that number represented residents, more than 1 in 5 South Carolinians are in the dark. However, it represents homes and businesses, so that portion could be greater. The state has nearly 2.2 million households, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

As the tropical depression continued to push north, customers in Indiana (14,466), Kentucky (225,717), West Virginia (94,313), and Virginia (243,109) were also experiencing outages.

Central Ohio was being inundated with heavy rain as residents faced tornado warnings, according to NBC affiliate WCMH of Columbus.