Heavy rains caused severe flooding and mudslides in the western part of the state, among other destruction.
Helene has torn through the Southeast, killing more than four dozen people, in what a North Carolina county official called the 'most significant natural disaster' the region has experienced in recent years.The Carolinas were hit hard on Friday, with South Carolina reporting more than 1 million power outages as of early Saturday and North Carolina reporting over 700,000 outages, according to poweroutage.us. In total across the Southeast, more than 3.
More From Newsweek Vault: What Is an Emergency Fund?'This is the most significant natural disaster that any one of us has ever seen in western North Carolina,' Ryan Cole, Buncombe County assistant emergency services director, told local news station ABC11.Newsweek reached out to Cole for additional comment via email on Saturday morning.
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