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The catastrophic flooding and destruction caused by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina likely caused at least a record US$59.6 billion in damages and recovery needs. [255] The storm and its aftermath caused 1,400 landslides and damaged over 160 water and sewer systems, at least 6,000 miles (9,650 kilometers) of roads, more than 1,000 ...
Monstrous hurricanes Helene and Milton caused so much complex havoc that damages are still being added up, but government and private experts say they will likely join the infamous ranks of ...
The latest death toll makes Helene the U.S. mainland's second-deadliest tropical storm since Hurricane Camille in 1969, behind only Hurricane Katrina, which killed at least 1,200 people.
The Blue Ridge Parkway was indefinitely closed due to damage between mileposts 217 to 469 – the entirety of the North Carolina segment. [95] As of February 12, 2025, 310 miles of the parkway had reopened. The estimated repair cost was between $1 and $2 billion, and some work was expected to take two to three years. [96]
(The Center Square) – Hurricane Helene aid for North Carolinians has poured in, plenty in goods and gifts, and a controversial amount in governmental fiscal strength. The storm that killed 103 ...
The U.S. has averaged eight yearly disasters that caused more than $1 billion in damage since 1980. But in the last five years, the number of such catastrophes has more than doubled to 18. Helene ...
Yet Helene was staggering – $53 billion in damage as estimated by the governor’s office and having happened not near the coast but some 400 miles inland and Asheville, for example, 2,100 feet ...
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.