Hurricane Helene caused dozens of deaths and billions of dollars of destruction across a wide swath of the southeastern U.S.
STEPHEN SMITH, KATE PAYNE and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTHAt least 43 people have died in four states from Hurricane Helene , which made landfall overnight in Florida and has weakened to a tropical depression. as it raced through, and more than 3 million customers went into the weekend without any power and for some a continued threat of floods.
The storm, now a post-tropical cyclone, was expected to hover over the Tennessee Valley on Saturday and Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said. Several flood and flash flood warnings remained in effect in parts of the southern and central Appalachians, while high wind warnings also covered parts of Tennessee and Ohio.
"There's a moment where you are thinking, 'If this water rises above the level of the stove, we are not going to have not much room to breathe,'" she said, recalling how she and her sister waded through chest-deep water with one cat in a plastic carrier and another in a cardboard box. Atlanta received a record 11.12 inches of rain in 48 hours, the most the city has seen in a two-day period since record keeping began in 1878, Georgia's Office of the State Climatologist said on the social platform X. Some neighborhoods were so badly flooded that only car roofs could be seen poking above the water.
More deaths were reported in Georgia and the Carolinas, including two South Carolina firefighters and a Georgia firefighter who died when trees struck their trucks. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin reported at least one death in his state.President Joe Biden said he was praying for survivors, and the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency headed to the area. The agency deployed more than 1,500 workers, and they helped with 400 rescues by late Friday morning.
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