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The number of victims from Hurricane Helene in the U.S. rises to 227

2024-10-06 22:48:11Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

The number of victims from Hurricane Helene in the U.S. rises to 227

The death toll from Hurricane Helene reached 227 on Saturday as week-long efforts to find bodies from the deadly storm that devastated the U.S. Southeast and killed in six states.

On September 26, the hurricane hit the Southern U.S. coast, a Category 4 storm, bringing road destruction and flooding of homes and other objects to northern Florida, leaving millions without electricity and cell phone service. Officials say the death toll is likely to rise even further as it is not yet known about the fate of many others.

Helene is the deadliest hurricane to hit the United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. About half of the victims were recorded in North Carolina, while dozens more died in Georgia and South Carolina.

The town of Asheville, which lies in the western north carolina ranges, was hit extremely hard. The floods destroyed thousands of businesses and homes in the basin stretching between mountains alongside the French Broad River.

MaryAnn Tierney, regional administrator with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), said residents affected by the disaster in North Carolina have received $27 million from the federal agency.

The governor's office, Roy Cooper, said more than 83,000 people have signed up for individual aid. FEMA-approved relief supplies for Buncombe County, which includes the town of Asheville, has exceeded $12 million for survivors, Tierney said Saturday.

"The help is for the immediate needs of survivors," she said during a press conference.

Hurricane Helene formed several thousand kilometres away in the Gulf of Mexico, but the greatest destruction brought it several hundred kilometres deep into the earth, damaging parts of Florida, Georgia, the inhabited mountain ranges of North and South Carolina and up to Tennessee.

Nearly 1.8 million homes and businesses in seven states, from Florida to Ohio, were left without power the night Hurricane Helene hit. Insurance companies and experts said the damage caused by Hurricane Helene is expected to reach about $100 billion.


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