{"id":108386,"date":"2024-09-29T15:52:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T08:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108386"},"modified":"2024-09-29T15:52:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T08:52:45","slug":"hurricane-helene-devastates-southeastern-us-millions-without-power-weather-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108386","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Helene devastates southeastern US, millions without power | Weather News"},"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 id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>At least 63 are killed, and over 2.6 million people across 10 states go without electricity as Helene leaves a trail of destruction.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>People across five states in the southeast United States have been left stranded, without shelter and awaiting rescue after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/9\/27\/one-killed-as-extremely-dangerous-hurricane-helene-slams-into-us\">devastating Hurricane Helene<\/a> killed at least 63 people and caused massive power outages.<\/p>\n<p>More than 2.6 million customers were still without electricity across 10 states from Florida in the southeast to Indiana in the Midwest as of the wee hours on Sunday, according to tracker poweroutage.us.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service said conditions would \u201ccontinue to improve Sunday\u201d as it warned of possible \u201clong-duration power outages\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Helene slammed into Florida on Thursday as a Category 4 hurricane and surged north, gradually weakening but leaving a trail of destruction: uprooted trees, downed power lines and homes damaged by mudslides.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/press-release\/20240928\/fema-and-partners-respond-hurricane-helene-across-southeast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said <\/a>on Saturday it granted emergency declarations in six states \u2013 Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee \u2013 \u201cto assist these states with preparation and response efforts in the immediate aftermath of the storm\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Search and rescue teams completed at least 600 rescues, FEMA said, adding that more than 3,200 of its staff had been deployed.<\/p>\n<p>At least 24 people died in South Carolina, 17 in Georgia, 11 in Florida, 10 in North Carolina and one in Virginia, according to local authorities and media tallied by the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Now classified as a \u201cpost-tropical cyclone\u201d, the remnants of the storm are expected to continue inundating the Ohio Valley and Central Appalachians through Sunday, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).<\/p>\n<p>In affected communities across the eastern coast and Midwest, storm victims and volunteers toting rubbish bags, mops and hammers tried to repair what they could and clean up the rest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s only a couple of businesses open. They have a limited supply. So I\u2019m just worried about families that have kids and stuff like that, getting somewhere to stay and have something to eat,\u201d Steven Mauro, a resident of Valdosta, Georgia, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Saturday, President Joe Biden called Helene\u2019s devastation \u201coverwhelming\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"it-breaks-my-heart\">\u2018It breaks my heart\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Helene blew into Florida\u2019s northern gulf shore with powerful winds of 140mph (225kmph). Even as it weakened into a post-tropical cyclone, it wreaked havoc.<\/p>\n<p>Record levels of flooding threatened to break several dams, but Tennessee emergency officials said on Saturday the Nolichucky Dam \u2013 which had been close to breaching \u2013 was no longer in danger of giving way and people downriver could return home.<\/p>\n<p>Massive flooding was reported in Asheville, in western North Carolina. Governor Ray Cooper called it \u201cone of the worst storms in modern history\u201d to hit the state.<\/p>\n<p>There were reports of remote towns in the Carolina mountains without power or cell service, their roads washed away or buried by mudslides.<\/p>\n<p>In Cedar Key, an island city of 700 people off Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast, several pastel-coloured wooden homes were destroyed by record storm surges and ferocious winds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve lived here my whole life, and it breaks my heart to see it. We\u2019ve not really been able to catch a break,\u201d said Gabe Doty, a Cedar Key official, referring to two other hurricanes in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>In South Carolina, the dead included two firefighters, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia\u2019s 17 deaths included an emergency responder, according to state officials.<\/p>\n<p>In the Tennessee town of Erwin, more than 50 patients and staff trapped on a hospital roof by surging floodwaters had to be rescued by helicopters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<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<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/9\/29\/hurricane-helene-devastates-southeastern-us-millions-without-power\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 63 are killed, and over 2.6 million people across 10 states go without electricity as Helene leaves a trail of destruction. 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