Storm made landfall in Florida Thursday and has caused deaths, damage and about 4m power outages in multiple states
has reportedly killed at least 10 people and inflicted more than 4m power outages across the south-eastern US after crashing ashore in north-western Florida late on Thursday as a potent category 4 hurricane, according to officials.
Another person died in Charlotte, North Carolina, after a tree fell on a home as the storm roared through that area. Also in Claremont, North Carolina, earlier on Thursday, a four-year-old girl was killed when two cars crashed in intense rain conditions preceding Helene’s arrival. Forecasters had asked residents to prepare for what they called a “nightmare” 20ft storm surge, essentially a wide wall of water pushed inland by the approaching storm.from the storm chaser Aaron Rigsby showed residences that collapsed and were damaged amid storm surge in the Florida community of Steinhatchee. Areas that were badly inundated by storm surge included Florida’s Tampa Bay.
Beyond Florida and Georgia, up to 10in of rain fell in the North Carolina mountains. Forecasters were predicting up to 14in more before the end of the deluge, an amount that could cause flooding that is more severe than anything seen in the past century. Another sheriff’s office, in Florida’s Taylor county, asked residents who chose not to evacuate ahead of Helene to write their names, birthdays and other identifying information on their limbs in permanent marker. “So that you can be identified and family notified,” the agency wrote in what was grim advice ahead of the storm.
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