Edward Carver is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Floodwaters brought mass death and destruction to the United States and Nepal over the weekend due to storms likely intensified by climate breakdown, following a month of extreme weather across the world. Hurricane Helene , a category 4 storm, killed at least 111 across six states in the southeastern U.S., most notably in western North Carolina .
President Joe Biden said Monday that he would visit the region, possibly later this week, The New York Times reported. The Federal Emergency Management Agency , along with the National Guard, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Federal Communications Commission, have together deployed more than 6,300 aid and rescue personnel to the region. The damage in Nepal has also been extraordinary. Monsoon season usually ends by mid-September, but not this year.
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