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The hurricane, Helene has rampaged across the states killing at least 30 persons and many others still missing in Buncombe County, North Carolina. The storm left a trail of massive floods and ruins as it rampaged through Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas, making the rescue team send a wild dash to evaluate the size of losses and damage caused by the storm.
Buncombe County which encompasses the mountain city of Asheville has continued to be one of the most affected regions. In the county, emergency officer Ryan Cole said that the aftermath looked like “biblical devastation” one of the worst natural disasters the area has ever experienced.
However, Nation CBS reports that Helene made landfall in Florida on Thursday where it left at least 116 casualties. The number of those who died will increase as rescuers are working in the remote areas of more dangerous spots. Helene was the strongest hurricane to ever strike the Big Bend area in the state of Florida, it moved North which affected the states of Georgia, Carolina and Tennessee. The majority of the deaths were registered in North and South Carolinas where the Storm weakened to a tropical storm level but did not spare damage.
Buncombe County alone suffered 30 deaths, North Carolina officials said in their update on Sunday evening. There are still more than 1,000 persons places, and it is for this reason that search efforts are under way; unfortunately the absence of a mobile network is hampering the operations, operations that are predominantly rescue in nature. As they come back to the region, people have been met by neighborhoods where everything is in ruins, everything levelled including the houses.
Fighting fires in the state remains a challenge due to the extensive damage, including power outages, fallen trees, and many closed roads. All of North Carolina has been without power or mobile communication, and fuel has been in short supply due to the closure of many petrol stations, forcing people to queue up at very few open ones. Grocery stores and supermarkets have been similarly emptied of some basic commodities like bottled water and other essentials as people cleared them within seconds.
In an effort to help people who were made homeless by the hurricane, the American Red Cross announced it had opened over 140 emergency shelters across Southeast USA. According to reports, by Sunday, more than 2000 people were inside those shelters. With the work of emergency responders still in the early stages, the damaging effects caused by Hurricane Helene are just, where one feels, ripped off by put it euphemistically, tearing to shreds and tilted countless communities in the Eastern Visayas region.
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