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By Karl Plume and Nathan Frandino ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (Reuters) – An army of private volunteers including mule drivers and helicopter pilots are helping deliver supplies and rescue stranded victims after one of the deadliest storms in recent U.S. history ripped through the mountains of western North Carolina. One week after Helene slammed into the Florida Panhandle and devastated wide swaths of half a dozen states, untold thousands remained cut off around Asheville, North Carolina, […]
By Maria Alejandra Cardona and Marco Bello BAT CAVE, North Carolina (Reuters) -Crews on Monday airlifted emergency food and water into remote North Carolina towns that were cut off and devastated by tropical storm Helene that turned the western part of the state into a “post apocalyptic” landscape. Helene was a hurricane when it slammed into the Florida Gulf coast on Thursday, tearing a destructive path through southeastern states for days on end, ripping up […]
(Reuters) – Over 1.6 million homes and businesses in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida and other U.S. Southeastern and Midwestern states were still without power on Monday after Helene slammed into the Florida Panhandle as a major hurricane on Sept. 26, according to data from PowerOutage.us. Those outages were down from around 2.1 million earlier in the day as utilities continue to restore power. In total, the storm knocked out service to around 5.5 million customers. […]
By Rich McKay, Joseph Ax and Andrew Hay ATLANTA (Reuters) – Authorities across a wide swath of the southeastern United States faced the daunting task on Saturday of cleaning up from Hurricane Helene, one of the most powerful to hit the country, as the death toll continued to rise. At least 43 deaths were reported by late on Friday, and officials feared still more bodies would be discovered across several states. Helene, downgraded late on […]
By Rich McKay, Brendan O’Brien and Andrew Hay (Reuters) -Driving rain flooded roadways and closed airports in Florida as an intensifying Hurricane Helene marched toward the state’s panhandle region, bringing the threat of a potentially deadly storm surge to much of the coastline. The storm became a major Category 4 hurricane on Thursday with sustained winds near 130 mph (209 kph), the National Hurricane Center said, and was expected to continue gaining power. Helene was […]
By Rich McKay, Brendan O’Brien and Andrew Hay (Reuters) -Florida braced for the arrival of Hurricane Helene on Thursday, forecast to be a powerful Category 4 storm when it smashes into the state’s panhandle. Officials issued dire warnings, pleading with residents in coastal areas along the hurricane’s path to evacuate ahead of catastrophic winds and a potentially deadly storm surge, the wall of seawater pushed on land by hurricane-force winds, that could rise to 20 […]
