WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden says he will visit Helene-impacted areas this week as long as it does not disrupt rescue and recovery operations.
As the rain from Hurricane Helene came down harder and harder, workers inside a plastics factory in rural Tennessee kept working. It wasn’t until water flooded into the parking lot and the power went out that the plant shut down and sent workers home.
"Them finding that dog yesterday was a bright spot in the middle of this chaos,” said a rescue official, nearly a week after the storm decimated the area.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Before Hurricane Helene’s landfall last week, the National Weather Service began an all-out blitz to alert emergency planners, first responders and residents across the Southeast that the storm’s heavy rains and high winds could bring disaster hundreds of miles from the coast.
Fewer than 5% of people in Taylor County, where it made landfall, have flood insurance.
It’s been 103 years since the famed 1921 direct hit.
HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane Helene dumped trillions of gallons of water hundreds of miles inland, devastating communities nestled in mountains far from the threat of storm surge or sea level rise. But that distance can conceal a history of flooding in a region where water races into populated towns tucked into steep valleys.
The pilot involved in the Shoreham Airshow crash, that led to the deaths of 11 people, is appealing against the decision to revoke his flying licence. Eleven men were killed when Mr Hill failed to complete a manoeuvre and crashed into the A27 during the Shoreham Airshow in West Sussex, on 22 August 2015. Mr Hill was charged with 11 counts of manslaughter by gross negligence but was found not guilty in March 2019, after a trial.
Following the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, authorities are investigating an East Tennessee plastics plant where numerous workers were swept away by floodwaters.
Survivors blasted a Tennessee plastics company for keeping workers on the job on Friday even as nearby flood waters rose, causing 11 people to be swept away when the plant was finally evacuated.At least three people were killed and three remain missing, one of the survivors told local TV station WJHL 11. The others clung to floating plastic pipes and were dumped half a mile away on a pile of debris, another survivor, Jacob Ingram, told the Knoxville News Sentinel.Managers at Impact Plastics in E
Tennessee state authorities said Wednesday they were investigating the company that owns a plastics factory where 11 workers were swept away by cataclysmic flooding unleashed by Hurricane Helene. As the nearby Nolichucky River swelled from rainfall, employees in the Impact Plastics factory in Erwin, a small community in rural Tennessee, kept working. It wasn’t until water flooded into the parking lot and the power went out that the plant shut down and sent workers home.
A week ago, Helene was plowing into Florida, thrashing cities and towns on the Gulf Coast while millions of people ahead of the hurricane’s path were dealing with rains that preceded even more rain. Forecasters warned of impacts that would be felt far inland.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Isolated and without electricity or phone service since Hurricane Helene inflicted devastation across the Southeast nearly a week ago, residents in the mountains of western North Carolina are relying on old-fashioned ways of communicating and coping.
Hundreds more are still thought to be missing, though many may simply be disconnected from their families due to lack of power and communications, authorities have said
GOMA (Reuters) -At least 78 people drowned when a boat carrying 278 passengers capsized in Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, a provincial governor said. Relatives sobbed on shore as victims were placed in body bags and carried away, a Reuters witness said, and video footage shared widely online showed a packed multi-deck vessel listing sideways in calm waters before it overturned and pitched flailing passengers into the lake. The governor of South Kivu province, said the death toll was 78 and that 278 had been on board.
One member of the North Carolina National Guard delivered supplies to his own church.
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An investigation is underway into allegations by workers at the plant who say they were told to keep working until it was too late.
In rural Appalachia, where landslides scarred slopes and water thundered into narrow valleys, Helene’s acute impact renews focus on future mitigation.
President Joe Biden's Thursday tour covered the Big Bend region of Florida and also Ray City, Georgia. Both were hard-hit by the Category 4 storm.
Rescue crews and volunteers facing obstacles at every turn in North Carolina’s remote mountains paddled canoes across swollen rivers and steered horses past mudslides in the rush to reach those stranded or missing by Hurricane Helene’s rampage that killed more than 200 throughout the Southeast. Now a week since the storm first roared onto Florida’s Gulf Coast, the search continued for people who have yet to be heard from in places where phone service and electricity were knocked out. Roughly half the victims were in North Carolina, while dozens more were killed in South Carolina and Georgia.
