From Florida to North Carolina, Hurricane Helene caused widespread destruction this week, bringing deadly floods, mudslides and tornadoes as it tore across the Southeast and its remnants reached all the way to the mountain areas of Appalachia.
Helene made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region late on Thursday as a Category 4 hurricane, with 140-mile-per-hour winds and record-breaking storm surges. The strongest storm to ever hit the region, the storm caused “complete obliteration of homes” in some parts of the state, said Gov. Ron DeSantis at a Saturday news conference.
It continued to move through the Southeast on Friday and Saturday, bringing rain, floods and mudslides through cities and towns in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee, and claiming dozens of lives. For many survivors, the struggle of cleanup and recovery had just begun.
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