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This satellite image released by Maxar Technologies shows flood-hit area of Biltmore village, N.C. after Hurricane Helene, on Oct. 7, 2024. (Satellite image ©2024 Maxar Technologies via AP)

This satellite image released by Maxar Technologies shows flood-hit area of Biltmore village, N.C. after Hurricane Helene, on Oct. 7, 2024. (Satellite image ©2024 Maxar Technologies via AP)

A Biltmore Village employee walks the historic village in Asheville, N.C. on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (Josh Bell/The Asheville Citizen-Times via AP)

A Biltmore Village employee walks the historic village in Asheville, N.C. on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (Josh Bell/The Asheville Citizen-Times via AP)

FILE - A horse-drawn trailer carries a 34-foot live Fraser fir to the front doors of the Biltmore House in Asheville, N.C Friday, Nov. 2, 2007. (Bill Sanders/The Asheville Citizen-Times via AP)

FILE - A horse-drawn trailer carries a 34-foot live Fraser fir to the front doors of the Biltmore House in Asheville, N.C Friday, Nov. 2, 2007. (Bill Sanders/The Asheville Citizen-Times via AP)

FILE - Biltmore Estate crews raise a 40-foot-tall Fraser fir tree in the Banquet Hall of the Biltmore House on Friday, Nov. 1, 2013, in Asheville, N.C. The tree, from an Avery County farm, arrived by horse-drawn carriage. (Bill Sanders/The Asheville Citizen-Times via AP)

FILE - Biltmore Estate crews raise a 40-foot-tall Fraser fir tree in the Banquet Hall of the Biltmore House on Friday, Nov. 1, 2013, in Asheville, N.C. The tree, from an Avery County farm, arrived by horse-drawn carriage. (Bill Sanders/The Asheville Citizen-Times via AP)

FILE - The Biltmore House, a 1890s French Renaissance-style, 250-room chateau in the Blue Ridge Mountains, is shown in Asheville, N.C., Dec. 18, 2006. (AP Photo/Alan Marler, File)

FILE - The Biltmore House, a 1890s French Renaissance-style, 250-room chateau in the Blue Ridge Mountains, is shown in Asheville, N.C., Dec. 18, 2006. (AP Photo/Alan Marler, File)