- Peek's Creek
Peeks Creek is a
stream located in Macon County,North Carolina . It is atributary of theCullasaja River , into which it flows a few miles or kilometers upstream of Franklin.In September 2004, it had a catastrophic
flood andmudslide , after massiverain s left over fromHurricane Ivan struck the same area soaked by formerHurricane Frances a week before. The slide started onFishhawk Mountain (also calledBig Fish Hawk Mountain ), where it continued into the creek. The slide and the waterdam med up behind abridge , then broke through, making the creek about convert|50|yd or meters wide instead of the normal two or three. The mass oftree s,boulder s, andmud forced at least fifteenhouse s off their foundations, one man riding his home about convert|500|ft|m downstream. Another home was pierced by a tree from end to end, the picture appearing in a localnewspaper .The area of the slide is about two miles (3 km) or three kilometers long, with much of the mud and some of the smaller
debris continuing into and down the Cullasaja.The unincorporated
community of Peeks Creek was devastated by the historic event, with at least six people killed, and possibly two still missing as of late onSeptember 24 , more than a week after thestorm .
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