Hurricane Helene, which has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, caused significant damage across the southeastern United States and southern Appalachia. At least 52 people were killed in five states, including Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.
David Hester inspects damages of his house after Hurricane Helene made landfall in Horseshoe Beach, Fla., on Saturday.
At least 52 people were killed in five states, including Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, the Associated Press. The dead included three firefighters, a mother and her 1-month-old twins and an 89-year-old woman who was struck by a tree that hit her house.
“I mean everybody is just kind of in shock and just trying to pick up the pieces. I mean nobody really expected it like this,” Swan said. As the waters rose, Swan said he slept on a kitchen counter with his legs draped over his stove. In North Carolina, Helene produced unusually heavy winds — up to 140 mph — on land, the strongest observed in coastal North Carolina since the start of modern meteorological recordkeeping in the 19th century.
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