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North Carolina was severely impacted by Hurricane Helene during late September 2024, primarily in its western Appalachian region, causing over 100 reported deaths and significant destruction of infrastructure and residential areas across several settlements. After making landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida on September 27, the hurricane ...
Cooper has deployed the North Carolina National Guard — with 410 troops and 146 vehicles, including high-water vehicles — to help with rescues, transport patients to medical care, and deliver ...
[236] [237] In one instance, federal aid workers briefly paused or relocated their work in Rutherford County, North Carolina, as a result. [238] A 44-year-old North Carolina man was later arrested and charged in the Rutherford County incident after he was found with a handgun and a rifle at a supermarket serving as a storm relief site. [239]
The Southeast is grappling with widespread devastation after Helene made landfall Thursday as the strongest hurricane on record to slam into Florida’s Big Bend region and tore through multiple ...
Main article: List of North Carolina hurricanes (1900–1949) Between 1900 and 1949, 75 tropical cyclones or their remnants affected the state. Collectively, cyclones in North Carolina during that time period resulted in 53 total fatalities during the period, as well as about $393 million in damage (2020 USD). Tropical cyclone affected the ...
More than 150 deaths have been confirmed since Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm, including dozens in flood-stricken North Carolina. “Communities were wiped off the ...
October 3, 2024 at 2:00 AM. A destroyed home near Fairview, N.C., in Buncombe County, on Monday in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Less than 1% of residences in the county have flood insurance ...
October 26–30, 2012 – Hurricane Sandy passed by the state, dropping heavy rains and making storm surge. July 3–4, 2014 – Hurricane Arthur hits eastern North Carolina, in particular the Outer Banks, with 100 mph (160 km/h). May 7, 2015 – Tropical Storm Ana produced heavy rainfall and indirectly caused a fatality.