PERRY, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Helene has caused at least 52 deaths and billions of dollars of destruction across a wide swath of the southeast U.S., and more than 3 million customers were without any power.
PERRY, Fla. — Hurricane Helene has caused at least 52 deaths and billions of dollars of destruction across a wide swath of the southeast U.S., and more than 3 million customers were without any power. Scores of people faced a continued threat of floods.
Western North Carolina was essentially cut off because of landslides and flooding that forced the closure of Interstate 40 and other roads. Video shows sections of Asheville underwater. There were hundreds of water rescues, none more dramatic than in rural Unicoi County in East Tennessee, where dozens of patients and staff were plucked by helicopter from the roof of a hospital that was surrounded by water from a flooded river.
The neighborhoods that sit just off Tampa’s downtown and are home to about 5,000 people had never seen storm surge like it had Friday. No one died, but homes, businesses and apartments were flooded. Atlanta received a record 11.12 inches of rain in 48 hours, the most the city has seen in a two-day period since record keeping began in 1878, Georgia’s Office of the State Climatologist said on the social platform X. Some neighborhoods were so badly flooded that only car roofs could be seen poking above the water.Climate change has exacerbated conditions that allow such storms to thrive, rapidly intensifying in warming waters and turning into powerful cyclones sometimes in a matter of hours.
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