Tropical Storm Helene brought life-threatening flooding to the Carolinas after leaving widespread destruction as a major hurricane in Florida and Georgia, killing at least 33 people. The storm hit Florida's Big Bend region as a powerful Category 4 hurricane on September 26, causing chaos with overturned boats, felled trees, submerged cars, and flooded streets.
ATLANTA - Tropical Storm Helene brought life-threatening flooding to the Carolinas on Sept 27 after leaving widespread destruction as a major hurricane in Florida and Georgia overnight that killed at least 33 people, swamped neighbourhoods and left more than four million homes and businesses without power.
As of early afternoon, the storm had been downgraded to a tropical depression and was packing maximum sustained winds of 55kmh as it slowed over Tennessee and Kentucky, the National Hurricane Centre said. In western North Carolina, Rutherford County emergency officials warned residents near the Lake Lure Dam just before noon to immediately evacuate to higher ground, saying “Dam failure imminent.”The extent of the damage in Florida began emerging after daybreak.
The city of Tampa posted on X that emergency personnel had completed 78 water rescues of residents and that many roads were impassable because of flooding.The US Coast Guard said it had saved nine people from storm waters. In Taylor County, the Sheriff’s Department wrote on social media that residents who decided not to evacuate should write their names and dates of birth on their arms in permanent ink “so that you can be identified and family notified.”Mr Ken Wood, 58, a state ferry boat operator in Pinellas County, said he should have heeded evacuation orders rather than riding out the storm at home with his 16-year-old cat, Andy.
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