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A crumpled mobile home and other debris can be seen along a tree line in Old Fort, N.C., on Sept. 29 following Hurricane Helene. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images) (Getty Images)
Hurricane Helene hit Florida's Big Bend as a powerful Category 4 storm with 140 mph winds. At least 3 million homes in 5 states lost power during the storm, which has weakened to a Category 1.
The damage wrought by Hurricane Helene was especially extensive in western North Carolina, a region far from the Florida coast where the system made landfall as a Category 4 storm.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reported that only 0.8 percent of households in disaster-declared counties in North Carolina held FEMA flood insurance policies. Environmental and insurance experts stated that the lack of flooding insurance would significantly slow the rebuilding and repairing of flood-damaged properties, as well ...
Team SC will hold a media briefing to provide an update on the state’s response to Hurricane Helene today at 2:30 PM. ... House notes damage assessments are continuing in other areas and ...
FEMA’s response to the aftermath of the storm has been widely panned as insufficient. ... The Broad River was only 10 yards wide in front of McCart’s home before the hurricane. Now it’s a ...
Storm damage in the Biltmore Village in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on September 28, 2024 in Asheville, North Carolina. Hurricane Helene made landfall Thursday night in Florida's Big Bend ...
Over the weekend, Mr. Biden visited Florida for a second time in just over the week to tour the storm damage after Hurricane Milton slammed the Gulf Coast of the Sunshine State as a Category 3 storm.