Hurricane Helene caused widespread devastation across the southeastern United States, resulting in dozens of deaths, billions of dollars in damages, and leaving millions without power as it churned through Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee.
Dustin Holmes, second from right, holds hands with his girlfriend, Hailey Morgan, while returning to their flooded home with her children Aria Skye Hall, 7, right, and Kyle Ross, 4, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene , Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in Crystal River, Fla. PERRY, Fla. — Hurricane Helene caused dozens of deaths and billions of dollars of destruction across a wide swath of the southeastern U.S.
The storm, now a post-tropical cyclone, was expected to hover over the Tennessee Valley on Saturday and Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said. Several flood and flash flood warnings remained in effect in parts of the southern and central Appalachians, while high wind warnings also covered parts of Tennessee and Ohio.
“There’s a moment where you are thinking, ‘If this water rises above the level of the stove, we are not going to have not much room to breathe,’” she said, recalling how she and her sister waded through chest-deep water with one cat in a plastic carrier and another in a cardboard box.In North Carolina, a lake featured in the movie “Dirty Dancing” overtopped a dam and surrounding neighborhoods were evacuated, although there were no immediate concerns it would fail.
It’s a place where Susan Sauls Hartway and her 4-year-old Chihuahua mix Lucy could afford to live within walking distance of the beach on her salary as a housekeeper.Friday afternoon, Hartway wandered around her street near Ezell Beach, searching for where the storm may have deposited her home.Born and raised in rural Taylor County, Hartway said there is nowhere in the world she would rather be, even after Helene.
Officials urged people who were trapped to call for rescuers and not tread floodwaters, warning they can be dangerous due to live wires, sewage, sharp objects and other debris. A mudslide in the Appalachian Mountains washed out part of an interstate highway at the North Carolina-Tennessee state line.
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