City of Decatur Public Works teams remove hurricane Helene damage from the 1000 block of Scott Blvd on Friday, Sept 27, 2024. The team took care of six trees before noon, fewer than expected. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
   

 

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  The storm brought flash floods, mudslides and tornadoes. Here’s the latest.

From the Gulf Coast of Florida to the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee, Helene sent residents scrambling to cope with threats like floods and landslides on Friday as it carved a path of havoc across the Southeast.

Landslides blocked a major interstate east of Asheville, N.C., helicopters were called into rescue dozens of people stranded on a hospital roof in Tennessee, and officials ordered evacuations over concerns that an overburdened dam would send water cascading into a small town.

On its dash inland from Florida, the storm has killed at least 41 people so far. In the densely populated Tampa Bay region, neighborhoods were underwater, and other small Gulf Coast communities were largely wiped out.

Here’s what we’re covering:

Rising toll: At least 41 deaths in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were attributed by officials to the storm. They were killed by rising floodwaters, falling trees, car crashes and a tornado spawned by the storm.

Florida damage: Helene roared ashore just before midnight near Perry, Fla., as a powerful Category 4 hurricane. Roofs were torn off, windows shattered and trees and power poles snapped like matchsticks. The heaviest blow appeared to fall on Florida’s sparsely populated Big Bend region.

Impact elsewhere: The storm brought landslides around Asheville. A flash flood warning was in place for 20,000 people near the town of Newport, Tenn. In the small town of Erwin, Tenn., about 60 people were rescued by helicopter from the roof of a hospital.

Power outages and property damage: More than 4.5 million customers were without power across several states on Friday evening. South Carolina has the most outages, with over one million customers in the dark. Helene is likely to cause $15 billion to $26 billion in property damage, experts say.




 

 





                      

 
 

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