{"id":120251,"date":"2024-10-31T00:52:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T17:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120251"},"modified":"2024-10-31T00:52:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T17:52:50","slug":"helene-death-toll-in-north-carolina-rises-above-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120251","title":{"rendered":"Helene death toll in North Carolina rises above 100"},"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<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.foxweather.com\/www.foxweather.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/gettyimages-2175515875.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p class=\"sub-text\">Andrew Veigel &amp; Charlie Moore, co-owners of Ridgeline Heating and Cooling, is providing vital support to Helene victims in the Lake Lure area of North Carolina. Oct. 23, 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Nearly five weeks after Hurricane <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/helene\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Helene<\/a> devastated several states on the East Coast, the storm&#8217;s death toll continues to rise.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">As of Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/north-carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Carolina<\/a> reported 101 fatalities from the storm, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdhhs.gov\/assistance\/hurricane-helene-recovery-resources\/hurricane-helene-storm-related-fatalities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services<\/a> (NCDHHS).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Hurricane Helene left much of western North Carolina in shambles. Rain from the storm caused rivers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/flood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flood<\/a> dozens of small towns and cities, causing hundreds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/category\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homes<\/a> and businesses to be buried in mud.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">Residents in many parts of the state are still cleaning up, and many have yet to figure out how and when they can start rebuilding their destroyed properties.<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/extreme-weather\/asheville-students-schools-helene-reopen-return\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ASHEVILLE STUDENTS RETURN TO SCHOOL ONE MONTH AFTER HELENE DEVASTATED CITY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p class=\"sub-text\">Dr. Kimberly J. Dechant, the chief of staff of Asheville City Schools, spoke about the part-time reopening of schools in Asheville, when the students will return full-time, the availability of clean freshwater in the school and the Teddy Bear Project the students participated in. Oct. 29, 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The majority of North Carolina&#8217;s reported deaths come from Buncombe County, the home of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/local-weather\/north-carolina\/asheville\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asheville<\/a>, and other badly hit cities like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/local-weather\/north-carolina\/swannanoa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swannanoa<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/local-weather\/north-carolina\/black-mountain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Mountain<\/a>. The county is reporting 43 deaths due to the storm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">On Oct. 22, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/weather-news\/helene-death-toll-buncombe-county-north-carolina-drops-by-30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the county announced a discrepancy in the reported death toll<\/a> and dropped the number from 72 to 42. The county said a combination of things led to the discrepancy, including a lack of communication from power and cellphone tower outages and updates on causes of death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p class=\"sub-text\">Hurricane Helene may have hit a month ago, but cleanup efforts are far from over. FOX Weather&#8217;s Robert Ray shows us what people are still enduring long after the storm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">The NCDHHS death breakdown is as follows:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Ashe County: 1<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Avery County: 5<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Buncombe County: 43<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Burke County: 1<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Catawba County: 1<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Cleveland County: 2<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Gaston County: 1<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Haywood County: 5<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Henderson County: 9<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Macon County: 2<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Madison County: 4<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">McDowell County: 1<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Mecklenburg County: 3<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Mitchell County: 2<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Polk County: 1<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Rowan County: 1<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Rutherford County: \u00a04<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Wake County: 1<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Watauga County: 2<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Wilkes County: 1<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Yadkin County: 1<\/li>\n<li data-v-2519e4fa=\"\">Yancey County: 10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-v-438398f6=\"\">In total, Helene has claimed the lives of 229 people across seven states.\u00a0<\/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.foxweather.com\/weather-news\/helene-death-toll-surpasses-100-north-carolina\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Veigel &amp; Charlie Moore, co-owners of Ridgeline Heating and Cooling, is providing vital support to Helene victims in the Lake Lure area of North Carolina. Oct. 23, 2024. Nearly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120251\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}