Hurricane Helene was America’s deadliest storm in nearly two decades

When Hurricane HELENE hit Florida’s Large Bend on September twenty sixth it was laborious to think about that it might wreak essentially the most devastation over 400 miles north within the Appalachian mountains. Officers report that flooding throughout the Southeast has killed about 200 folks, greater than any mainland tropical storm since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In North Carolina’s Buncombe County alone, residence to town of Asheville, not less than 35 residents have died and 600 are lacking. One lady who climbed to the roof of her home because the waters rose watched her seven-year-old son get swept away. Mules are delivering meals to stranded survivors since roads had been ravaged.