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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Yep. All the water from the hurricane was trapped in the town of Boone. Nowhere for it to go. Even though it’s on a higher elevation.
Will Kamala leap to the rescue?
Don't be silly. Only Republicans control the weather.
</sarcasm>
Oh yeah, she’ll leap right on it. She is a leaper.
Ashville is full of libtards that have actually implemented reparations for slavery. Wrath of God, I say.
If they are a few miles from the river they should be fine. A few in Sevier Co were evacuated due to Douglas Lake high levels.
Catturd is right.
I think the game should be canceled on account of storm effects.
Wow
Video Lake Lure and Chimney Rock area of North Carolina Devastated after flooding
Yes. Wiped out. Lake Lure Dam is still holding. They were afraid that it was going to fail.
Hurricane Helene Fatality Total: 103+
{1,073+ Remain Missing}
➼38+ in North Carolina [1,000+ Remain Missing]
•30+ in Buncombe County
•5 in Henderson County
•1 in Catawba County
•1 in Gaston County
•1 in Mecklenburg County
➼28 in South Carolina
•6 in Spartanburg County
•4 in Aiken County
•4 in Greenville County
•4 in Saluda County
•4 in Anderson County
•3 in Laurens County
•2 in Newberry County
•1 in Greenwood County
➼21 in Georgia
•3 in McDuffie County
•3 in Richmond County
•3 in Lowndes County
•2 in Wheeler County
•2 in Laurens County
•2 in Jeff Davis County
•2 in Washington County
•1 in Colquitt County
•1 in Pierce County
•1 in Liberty County
•1 in Columbia County
➼12 in Florida
•9 in Pinellas County
•2 in Hillsborough County
•1 in Dixie County
•0 in Taylor County {Hurricane Landfall Location}
➼2+ in Tennessee [73+ Remain Missing]
•Officials in Unicoi County confirmed “deaths” occurred, with no specific numbers.
➼2 in Virginia
•1 in Craig County
•1 in Tazewell County
https://x.com/WXFatalities/status/1840504720286470166
Just an idea. President Trump should announce that effective Monday through next Saturday that all campaign contributions will be donated to disaster relief for the affected areas and double dog dare the Democrats to do the same.
FEMA is broke..........
And FEMA is especially out of funds when the people need help don't usually vote "correctly".
Just ask those folks up in Ohio about the help they got.
Or, better yet, ask somebody/anybody in the media if they know anything about Western NC. Anything at all.
That's your first tipoff. You don't vote their way you just don't exist any more.
Denying or blocking federal catastrophe aid is a crime................
Correct.
But only for some.
File those charges and guess how long it’s going to take for DOJ/FBI to do anything at all. Except maybe find a judge who will dump them because of “standing”.
The debris in Lake Lure was the town of Chimney Rock.
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