Many residents in the Carolinas are facing hardships nearly a week after Hurricane Helene ravaged the Southeast. Residents grapple with lack of running water, electricity, and cell service while authorities work tirelessly to provide aid.
It's the second-deadliest hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland in 50 years. ASHEVILLE, N.C.
“There are portions of our distribution system that are going to have to be completely rebuilt,” Chandler said. A new study says hurricanes in the United States are hundreds of times deadlier in the long run than the government calculates. in the Carolinas on Wednesday after saying a day earlier that estimating the recovery will cost billions. “People are scared to death. This is urgent,” he said.How some of the hardest-hit areas are coping
“It was really challenging to watch how quickly it rose up and then just to watch whole buildings floating down the river. It was something I can’t even describe,” she said. Teams from Verizon worked to repair toppled cell towers and damaged cables and to provide alternative forms of connectivity, the company said in a statement.
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