By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-29 03:22:48 | Updated at 2024-09-30 09:30:50
1 day ago
At least 64 dead and millions without power after Helene’s deadly march across the Southeast
AP News ^ | 8:38 PM CDT, September 28, 2024 | STEPHEN SMITH, KATE PAYNE and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH
Posted on 09/28/2024 7:03:21 PM PDT by Red Badger
PERRY, Fla. (AP) — Massive rains from powerful Hurricane Helene left people stranded, without shelter and awaiting rescue Saturday, as the cleanup began from a tempest that killed at least 64 people, caused widespread destruction across the U.S. Southeast and left millions without power.
“I’ve never seen so many people homeless as what I have right now,” said Janalea England, of Steinhatchee, Florida, a small river town along the state’s rural Big Bend, as she turned her commercial fish market into a storm donation site for friends and neighbors, many of whom couldn’t get insurance on their homes.
Helene blew ashore in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 hurricane late Thursday with winds of 140 mph (225 kph).
From there, it quickly moved through Georgia, where Gov. Brian Kemp said Saturday that it “looks like a bomb went off” after viewing splintered homes and debris-covered highways from the air. Weakened, Helene then soaked the Carolinas and Tennessee with torrential rains, sending creeks and rivers over their banks and straining dams.
Western North Carolina was isolated because of landslides and flooding that forced the closure of Interstate 40 and other roads. All those closures delayed the start of the East Tennessee State University football game against The Citadel because the Buccaneers’ drive to Charleston, South Carolina, took 16 hours.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Florida; US: Georgia; US: South Carolina
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1 posted on 09/28/2024 7:03:21 PM PDT by Red Badger
>> All those closures delayed the start of the East Tennessee State University football game against The Citadel because the Buccaneers’ drive to Charleston, South Carolina, took 16 hours.
Vital footnote...
2 posted on 09/28/2024 7:07:18 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
To: Red Badger
3 posted on 09/28/2024 7:11:39 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
To: Red Badger
Will Kamala leap to the rescue?
4 posted on 09/28/2024 7:13:03 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: janetjanet998
Horrible!.......................
5 posted on 09/28/2024 7:21:59 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
All those closures delayed the start of the East Tennessee State University football game against The Citadel because the Buccaneers’ drive to Charleston, South Carolina, took 16 hours.
At a time like this, who cares about a football game? What's more important, rescuing people or watching some guys vie for possession of a leather balloon?
6 posted on 09/28/2024 7:42:07 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
To: Red Badger
7 posted on 09/28/2024 7:43:42 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
To: gundog
Probably send another $20 billion to Zelensky.
8 posted on 09/28/2024 7:45:16 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
They’ll probably extend the election in those states so everyone is able to vote and knows how many more votes they need. State of Emergency declared and extended.
9 posted on 09/28/2024 8:09:11 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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