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Taylor Swift donated $5 million to Feeding America's relief efforts for Helene and Hurricane Milton, which impacted Florida less than two weeks after Helene. [343] A surge in air traffic over the disaster area occurred due to relief efforts, with an estimated 300% increase in air traffic over western North Carolina alone.
Hurricane Helene was the most intense tropical cyclone of the 1958 Atlantic hurricane season. The eighth tropical storm and fourth hurricane of the year, Helene was formed from a tropical wave east of the Lesser Antilles. Moving steadily westward, the storm slowly intensified, attaining hurricane strength on September 26.
Of the 241 people reported victims of Hurricane Helene in the United States, 119 people were in North Carolina, surpassing the state record of 80 deaths recorded in a 1916 flood. [8] [35] Of these, 72 residents of Buncombe County were among the deceased.
Helene is the fourth most deadly hurricane from the Atlantic Basin in the last three-quarters of a century. Only Katrina (2005, deaths 1,392), Audrey (1957, deaths 416) and Camille (1969, deaths ...
Helene, a Category 4 hurricane when it made landfall in Florida on Sept. 26, is deemed responsible for 232 deaths across seven states, according to information gathered by The Center Square. The ...
As of Tuesday, Oct. 1, the death toll for the storm has surpassed 150 people across six states, according to the Associated Press. Nearly half of the deaths occurred in North Carolina. Nearly half ...
The death toll from Hurricane Helene has risen to approximately 232 people, with hundreds still missing, and numbers expected to rise as recovery efforts continue, especially in the hardest hit ...
So far, Hurricane Helene has killed at least 162 people across the Southeast. Unfortunately, that might be just the beginning of the deaths and suffering caused by the storm.