{"id":107693,"date":"2024-09-27T23:20:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T16:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107693"},"modified":"2024-09-27T23:20:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T16:20:58","slug":"helene-path-and-live-updates-14-dead-as-flooding-stretches-from-florida-to-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107693","title":{"rendered":"Helene Path and Live Updates: 14 Dead as Flooding Stretches From Florida to North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"live-blog-post\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/09\/27\/weather\/hurricane-helene-florida#hurricane-helene-florida-cedar-key-damage\" data-source-id=\"100000009725080\">\n<div class=\"live-blog-meta css-1g3itdy\">\n<div class=\"css-yf9s2t\" data-testid=\"live-blog-byline\"><a class=\"css-13xl2ke\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/abigail-geiger\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abigail Geiger\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/icons\/t_logo_291_black.png?quality=75&amp;auto=webp\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1ppjtba\"><span class=\"css-xtl8uk\"><time class=\"css-iqvqz5\" datetime=\"2024-09-27T15:26:18.592Z\"><\/p>\n<p><span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-time=\"abs\" class=\"css-1656jku\">Sept. 27, 2024, 11:26 a.m. ET<\/span><span data-time=\"rel\" class=\"css-xwx5dt\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-medium css-d754w4 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-gbc9ki ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Emergency workers gathered at the main intersection that leads into Cedar Key, Fla.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Abigail Geiger for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Cedar Key, a small community on a collection of tiny islands jutting into the Gulf of Mexico, is emerging as one of the areas most devastated when Helene struck Florida\u2019s Big Bend region on Thursday night.<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cCedar Key as we know it is completely gone,\u201d said Michael Bobbitt, a novelist and playwright who lives in the heart of the community and who stayed behind to help whoever he could. An estimated 75 residents chose not to leave, officials said. \u201cEntire houses have been picked up and moved away,\u201d Mr. Bobbitt said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">On Thursday night, as the storm was hitting, Mr. Bobbitt, who has military and first aid training, said he was able to get two older people out of their house and take them to his own, which sits on a partly elevated portion of his island. \u201cWe had to go through four feet of water to get to them,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Around 7 a.m. on Friday, he was on his way out to see how he might help again, and fearful of what he would find. <\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But so far, officials with Levy County, which contains Cedar Key, said there were no reports of deaths or injury in Cedar Key or other coastal areas of the county. \u201cThat\u2019s just a true blessing,\u201d said Lt. Scott Tummond, a public information officer with the Levy County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\"> A large number of emergency service crews from across the state continue to work in those areas, he said. \u201cWe\u2019re still in rescue mode,\u201d Lieutenant Tummond said. Recovery mode, he said, would start \u201conce we ensure the safety of those that we can identify who need assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Bobbitt had made a rough, painful inventory of the damage. \u201cThe post office is destroyed,\u201d he said. \u201cSeveral restaurants are destroyed. The Jiffy Food Store is destroyed. Vehicles are smashed in and turned upside down. Everything is impassable. It looks like a nuclear bomb went off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Helene is the third hurricane to hit Florida\u2019s Big Bend in 13 months \u2014 after Idalia in August of last year came Debby last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Bobbitt described Helene as the most violent force he had ever experienced. \u201cI didn\u2019t even know how to conceive of something so powerful,\u201d he said, adding that he thought recovery would take years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cI expect there to be a mass exodus,\u201d he said. \u201cThere will be no services here for months. There\u2019s no stores. No restaurants. 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