{"id":2347165,"date":"2024-09-28T19:07:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T23:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massive-american-death-toll-investigation-finds-dozens-killed-in-southeast-by-hurricane-helene\/"},"modified":"2024-09-28T19:11:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T23:11:16","slug":"massive-american-death-toll-investigation-finds-dozens-killed-in-southeast-by-hurricane-helene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massive-american-death-toll-investigation-finds-dozens-killed-in-southeast-by-hurricane-helene\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive American Death Toll: Investigation Finds Dozens Killed in Southeast by Hurricane Helene"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmassive-american-death-toll-investigation-finds-dozens-killed-in-southeast-by-hurricane-helene%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2347165&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hurricane Helene struck the U.S. Southeast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boasting-floyd-rioter-sentenced-to-nine-years-behind-bars-i-lit-it-on-fire\/\" title=\"Boasting Floyd Rioter Sentenced To Nine Years Behind Bars: \u2018I Lit It On Fire!\u2019\">causing extensive damage<\/a> and resulting in at least 56 fatalities. The storm, which\u2064 made\u200d landfall in Florida&#8217;s Big Bend region as\u200b a\u200b Category 4 hurricane with winds reaching 140 mph, left many residents homeless and without power. Significant flooding in areas such as North Carolina \u2062and\u2064 Tennessee \u2062led to emergency evacuations \u2064and numerous water rescues, including dramatic helicopter rescues from rooftops. The hurricane caused catastrophic flooding, with some regions experiencing record rainfall. President Biden acknowledged \u2062the\u2062 overwhelming devastation, and the economic impact is projected to reach between $95 billion and $110 billion. Amid the destruction, communities are coming together to provide aid\u2063 and essential services, while questions about climate change&#8217;s role in the increasing\u2062 severity of such storms loom large.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> <script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>PERRY, Fla. (AP) &mdash; Massive rains from powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-helene-florida-georgia-storm-surge-48bc645cdc70bf40c0b62457e87dd1de\">Hurricane Helene<\/a> left people stranded, without shelter and awaiting rescue Saturday, as the cleanup began from a tempest that killed at least 56 people, caused widespread destruction across the U.S. Southeast and left millions without power. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never seen so many people homeless as what I have right now,&rdquo; said Janalea England, of Steinhatchee, Florida, a small river town along the state&rsquo;s rural Big Bend, as she turned her commercial fish market into a storm donation site for friends and neighbors, many of whom couldn&rsquo;t get insurance on their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Helene <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-helene-florida-georgia-mexico-42fb7cc90604b7f87179920f97627873\">blew ashore<\/a> in Florida&rsquo;s Big Bend region as a Category 4 hurricane late Thursday with winds of 140 mph (225 kph).<\/p>\n<p>From there, it quickly moved through Georgia, where Gov. Brian Kemp said Saturday that it &ldquo;looks like a bomb went off&rdquo; 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. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-helene-asheville-flooding-north-carolina-tennessee-078a298cdcaaf46749f3f6683a4e1057\">Western North Carolina<\/a> 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&rsquo; drive to Charleston, South Carolina, took 16 hours. <\/p>\n<p>  <script> \t\t\t\tif( ! getCookie( 'ff_subbed' ) ) if( typeof FFADS.replace_ict !='undefined' ) if( FFADS.replace_ict ) eval( FFADS.replace_ict ); \t\t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>There have been hundreds of water rescues, none more dramatic than in rural Unicoi County in East Tennessee, where <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-helene-florida-georgia-north-carolina-2277be0d4b8648113508f39bfff56193\">dozens of patients and staff<\/a> were plucked by helicopter from a hospital rooftop Friday. And the rescues continued into the following day in Buncombe County, North Carolina, where part of Asheville was under water.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;To say this caught us off guard would be an understatement,&rdquo; said Quentin Miller, the county sheriff.<\/p>\n<p>Water flooded Janetta Barfield&rsquo;s car there as a creek overflowed, reaching her lap, before a police officer rescued her.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It happened so fast to me and scared the life out of me because nothing like that ever happened,&rdquo; said Barfield, a traveling nurse.<\/p>\n<p>While there have been deaths in the county, Emergency Services Director Van Taylor Jones said he wasn&rsquo;t ready to report specifics, partially because downed cell towers hindered efforts to contact next of kin. <\/p>\n<p>Relatives put out desperate pleas for help on Facebook. Among those waiting for news was Francine Cavanaugh, whose sister told her she was going to check on guests at a vacation cabin as the storm began hitting Asheville. Cavanaugh, who lives in Atlanta, hasn&rsquo;t been able to reach her since then.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think that people are just completely stuck,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The storm, now a post-tropical cyclone, was expected to hover over the Tennessee Valley on Saturday and Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said. <\/p>\n<p>&lsquo;Catastrophic&rsquo; flooding<\/p>\n<p>It unleashed the worst flooding in a century in North Carolina, where Gov. Roy Cooper described it as &ldquo;catastrophic&rdquo; as search and rescue teams from 19 states and the federal government came to help. One community, Spruce Pine, was doused with over 2 feet (0.6 meters) of rain from Tuesday through Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>And in Atlanta, 11.12 inches (28.24 centimeters) of rain fell over 48 hours, the most the city has seen over two days since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-chamber-of-commerce-warns-of-long-term-economic-losses-from-plunging-child-test-scores\/\" title=\"U.S. Chamber of Commerce Warns of Long-Term Economic Losses From Plunging Child Test Scores\">record keeping began<\/a> in 1878.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden said Saturday that Helene&rsquo;s devastation has been &ldquo;overwhelming&rdquo; and pledged to send help.<\/p>\n<p>Helene is the deadliest tropical cyclone for South Carolina since Hurricane Hugo killed 35 people when it came ashore just north of Charleston in 1989. Deaths also have been reported in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Moody&rsquo;s Analytics said it expects $15 billion to $26 billion in property damage. AccuWeather&rsquo;s preliminary estimate of the total damage and economic loss from Helene in the U.S. is between $95 billion and $110 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Climate change has exacerbated conditions that allow such storms to thrive, rapidly intensifying in warming waters and turning into powerful cyclones sometimes in a matter of hours. <\/p>\n<p>Evacuations and overtopped dams<\/p>\n<p>Evacuations began before the storm hit and continued as lakes <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-helene-north-carolina-flooding-dam-29c07657e7664c9f06778343a87f7d2b\">overtopped dams<\/a>, including one in North Carolina that forms a lake featured in the movie &ldquo;Dirty Dancing.&rdquo; Helicopters were used to rescue some people from flooded homes.<\/p>\n<p>Elin Fisher and her husband, who teach whitewater standup paddleboarding on the Nolichucky River in Tennessee, had to move their camper three times to stay ahead of rising waters. <\/p>\n<p>And in Newport, Tennessee, Jonah Wark waited so long to evacuate that a boat had to come to the rescue. &ldquo;Definitely a scary moment,&rdquo; Wark said.<\/p>\n<p>After touring the damage by helicopter, a stunned U.S. Rep. Diana Harshbarger said, &ldquo;Who would have thought a hurricane would do this much damage in East Tennessee?&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Among the 11 confirmed deaths in Florida were nine people who drowned in their homes in a mandatory evacuation area on the Gulf Coast in Pinellas County, where St. Petersburg is located, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said. <\/p>\n<p>None of the victims were from Taylor County, which is where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-times-joe-biden-ran-away-from-media-questions-on-afghanistan\/\" title=\"5 Times Joe Biden Ran Away From Media Questions On Afghanistan\">storm made landfall<\/a>. It <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/live\/hurricane-helene-tracker-maps-updates\">came ashore<\/a> near the mouth of the Aucilla River, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) northwest of where <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tropical-storm-idalia\/\">Hurricane Idalia hit<\/a> last year at nearly the same ferocity. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you had told me there was going to be 15 feet to 18 feet of storm surge, even with the best efforts, I would have assumed we would have had multiple fatalities,&rdquo; Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Taylor County is in Florida&rsquo;s Big Bend, went years without taking a direct hit from a hurricane. But after Idalia and two other storms in a little over a year, the area is beginning to feel like a hurricane superhighway.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s bringing everybody to reality about what this is now with disasters,&rdquo; said John Berg, 76, a resident of Steinhatchee, a small fishing town and weekend getaway.<\/p>\n<p>Timmy Futch of Horseshoe Beach stayed put for the hurricane before driving to high ground when the water reached his house. many homes in the town, which his grandfather helped found, were reduced to piles of lumber. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We watched our town get tore to pieces,&rdquo; Futch said. <\/p>\n<p>The aftermath<\/p>\n<p>About 60 miles (100 kilometers) to the north, cars lined up before sunrise Saturday at a free food distribution site in Perry, Florida, amid widespread power outages. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re making it one day at a time,&rdquo; said Sierra Land, who lost everything in her fridge, as she arrived at the site with her 5- and 10-year-old sons and her grandmother.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of utility crew workers descended upon Florida in advance of the hurricane, and by Saturday power was restored to more than 1.9 million homes and businesses. But hundreds of thousands remain without electricity there and in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Stallings, director of the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency, said crews were focused on opening routes to hospitals and making sure supplies can be delivered to damaged communities.<\/p>\n<p>Helene was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/helene-makes-landfall-in-northwestern-florida-as-a-category-4-hurricane-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Helene makes landfall in northwestern Florida as a Category 4 hurricane - Washington Examiner\">eighth named storm<\/a> of the Atlantic hurricane season, which began June 1. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted an above-average season this year <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricanes-busy-season-warm-water-la-nina-0fe7c4cb0367e8b56ac63ff663839df0\">because of record-warm ocean temperatures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Payne reported from Perry, and Hollingsworth reported from Kansas City, Missouri. Associated Press journalists Seth Borenstein in New York; Travis Loller in Nashville, Tennessee; Jeff Amy in Atlanta; Susan Haigh in Hartford, Connecticut; and Freida Frisaro in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, contributed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Western Journal has not reviewed this Associated Press story prior to publication. Therefore, it may contain editorial bias or may in some other way not meet our normal editorial standards. 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(AP) \u2014 Heavy rainfall from Hurricane Helene has left many individuals stranded and homeless, awaiting rescue as cleanup efforts commence following the storm that resulted in at least 56 fatalities and extensive damage across the Southeastern U.S., leaving millions without electricity. Janalea England from Steinhatchee, Florida, expressed her concern over the number of people now without homes and transformed her fish market into a donation center for those affected who lacked insurance. Helene made landfall in Florida&#8217;s Big Bend region as a Category 4 hurricane with winds reaching 140 mph (225 kph) before moving through Georgia, where Governor Brian Kemp described the destruction as resembling a bomb blast after surveying damaged areas from above. The weakened storm then brought heavy rains to the Carolinas and Tennessee, causing rivers to overflow and leading to road closures due to landslides in Western North Carolina. Emergency rescues were conducted throughout East Tennessee, including dramatic helicopter evacuations from a hospital rooftop in Unicoi County. In Buncombe County, North Carolina, residents faced severe flooding that caught many off guard; relatives sought help on social media for those unaccounted for after the storm hit Asheville. The National Hurricane Center reported that Helene had transitioned into a post-tropical cyclone but was expected to linger over the Tennessee Valley through the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The flooding was described as &#8220;catastrophic&#8221; by North Carolina&#8217;s Governor Roy Cooper as search teams arrived from various states to assist with rescue operations. Some areas received more than two feet of rain within days; Atlanta experienced its highest two-day rainfall since records began in 1878 with over 11 inches recorded. President Joe Biden acknowledged Helene\u2019s overwhelming devastation and promised federal assistance while noting it is South Carolina&#8217;s deadliest tropical cyclone since Hurricane Hugo in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Evacuations were initiated prior to landfall due to concerns about dam breaches caused by rising waters; helicopters were deployed for rescues amid widespread flooding across communities like Newport, Tennessee. In Florida\u2019s Pinellas County alone, nine drowning victims were reported among eleven confirmed deaths statewide linked directly to this hurricane.<\/p>\n<p>As recovery efforts continue amidst power outages affecting millions\u2014over 1.9 million homes regained electricity by Saturday\u2014local officials are prioritizing access routes for emergency supplies while assessing damages estimated between $15 billion and $26 billion according to Moody\u2019s Analytics.<\/p>\n<p>Climate change has intensified conditions conducive for such storms which can rapidly escalate into powerful cyclones due largely due warming ocean temperatures contributing significantly towards this year\u2019s above-average Atlantic hurricane season forecasted by NOAA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2347166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/50b76970529e421b876d979a38ff3b50-scaled-e1727558125278.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[41920,41774,41922,41921],"class_list":["post-2347165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-american-death-toll","tag-hurricane-helene","tag-natural-disaster-investigation","tag-southeast-disaster"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/50b76970529e421b876d979a38ff3b50-scaled-e1727558125278.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2347165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2347166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}