Causing destruction throughout the southern part of the United States, Hurricane Helene killed more than one hundred and thirty people. On Monday, however, the full severity of the devastation became evident, revealing a view of destroyed houses, broken infrastructure, and flooded roads. Everybody agrees, such a storm had not struck such a scale in the history of the US.
Concerning any of the states in the Southeast US, western North Carolina is the worst. Many residents have been stuck in their houses because of broken roads and no electricity, so there’s no means of turning to anyone for help. There is a ‘water queue’, and people want to call their family to report they are all right.
At this moment, there are 133 confirmed dead people in the territories comprising six Southeastern states North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. The toll is anticipated to rise since response units are still working their way into areas that had been isolated as a result of flooding and other barriers.
Rescue attempts and recovery assistance
Liz Sherwood-Randall, the White House adviser on the Homeland Security, said that approximately 600 people are still missing, with some of them probably dead. President Joe Biden stated he will pay a visit to North Carolina and fantastically meet the officials and make an air tour of the worst hit places on Wednesday. He has made it clear that help will be provided at all times until exhaustion of the resources.
Relief efforts have already begun with air and truck delivery to the most affected areas. In Asheville and surrounding mountainous regions at least 40 lives have been lost. Rescue teams who have managed to reach isolated locals are now aiming to deliver supplies to other cut off regions using mules as pack animals.
North Carolina takes the shame
Western North Carolina has taken the worse in all this. Hurricane Helene with its remnants struck the Appalachian region, resulting into heavy rainfall and terrible flooding. The situation was made worse since several places had already been soaked from significant rains that had fallen prior to that. “Helene carried with it any number of storms,” said Christiaan Patterson, a National Weather Service meteorologist, “So by the time Helene came into the Carolinas, we already had that rain on top of more rain.”
Asheville has no water sources anymore because the water system has been wrecked; hence they use feed creek water to only flush the toilets. For instance, some parts of interstate high way number 40 and other routes that lead into the city have been completely submerged or blocked with torrents of mud. For the first time in over 100 years, there is the most severe flooding and towns have been disconnected or have no food and clean water. People were seen forming a long queue each carrying any container or pots in search of water.
People are helping out, while search and rescue squads are still working around the area it is said that volunteers have organized. As many as 50 inpatients in Tennessee were safely helicoptered out, and in Atlanta some people were rescued while they were still trapped in their vehicles.
North Carolinas Governor Roy Cooper reported after surveying a plane buttressed with detectives for a look at the Asheville area as well met some of the people that were providing lunch as well. “This has been really an extraordinary storm that has batter western North Carolinas, which was his words after yesterday. “Pretend you are the head of the city.
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Deadliest since 1989-storm in this state
More than 30 have lost their lives in South Carolina which means this is the deadliest storm since hurricane hugo to strike that state in 1989. Over in Florida, the Clearwater Marine Aquarium was submerged under a few feet of water requiring some of the animals to be transported to a different facility although it was reported that all of the animals were safe.
Even as the region tries to recover from the consequences of Hurricane Helene, a new disaster is looming. A new and potentially dangerous weather feature is visible – this is Tropical Storm Kirk which has developed in the eastern part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is predicted that within 48 hours, Kirk will boldly become perhaps an extremely strong hurricane. While it does not pose a danger to the land so far, the weather specialists are watching how the Tropical Storm is developing.
