"It will be ‘complicated recovery’ in five states, says disaster relief agency, with hurricane killing at least 91 people so far"
"The head of the US disaster relief agency has called Hurricane Helene, which has killed nearly 100 people, a “true multi-state event” that caused “significant infrastructure damage” and had been made worse because of global heating.
The storm killed at least 91 people, according to state and local officials in South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. Officials feared more bodies would be discovered.
“This is going to be a really complicated recovery in each of the five states” of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, said the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) administrator, Deanne Criswell.
She noted that a 15ft storm surge hit Florida’s Taylor county, where Helene came ashore as a category 4 hurricane late Thursday with winds of 140mph (225km/h), and pointed out that areas of western North Carolina, where search and rescue operations are continuing, recorded 29in (74cm) of rain when the storm stalled over the region."
Edward Helmore reports for the Guardian September 29, 2024.
SEE ALSO:
"Hurricane Helene’s Devastation Shows No Region Is Safe from Climate-Fueled Disaster" (E&E News)
"How Helene Wrought So Much Havoc, So Far From the Coasts" (New York Times)
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