{"id":50453,"date":"2024-10-03T15:51:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T19:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=50453"},"modified":"2024-10-03T15:51:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T19:51:27","slug":"hurricane-helenes-death-toll-passed-250-across-the-six-states-most-devastated-by-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/10\/03\/hurricane-helenes-death-toll-passed-250-across-the-six-states-most-devastated-by-the-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Helene’s death toll passed 250 across the six states most devastated by the storm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The death toll from Hurricane Helene has exceeded 250 across six states, as clean-up and recovery operations continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

700 people 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The death toll from Hurricane Helene has exceeded 250 across six states, as clean-up and recovery operations continue in earnest. The majority of the deaths caused by Helene have been reported in North Carolina (AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The majority of deaths were reported in North Carolina, which saw devastating flooding from swollen rivers, debris, and landslides, along with South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, and Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to an NBC tally, the death toll in North Carolina is now at least 101, with the majority coming from one area \u2013 Buncombe County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Asheville area within the county was devastated by the flooding, with raging rapids destroying homes, businesses, and other critical infrastructure across the region. Footage showed residents clambering onto the roofs of their houses to escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exact number of those that remain missing has not yet been released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“First \u2013 search and rescue continue now for a seventh day. We\u2019re continuing to find people,” Buncombe County Manager Avril Pinder said Thursday. “We know we have pockets of people who are isolated due to landslides and bridges out. So, they are disconnected but not missing.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pinder added that once search and rescue operations end, a true number of missing will be known. Some 840 volunteers have been deployed to check on over 6,000 \u201cpriority households,\u201d and over 700 care packages have been distributed in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far 2,885 people have been found safe by volunteers, and 1,828 were confirmed safe through email and texts as of Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of Thursday, South Carolina has seen at least 39 deaths, with at least 19 more in Florida, 33 in Georgia, 11 in Tennessee and two in Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helene is the second deadliest hurricane to hit the mainland United States since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana\u2019s Plaquemines Parish on August 29, 2005. The Category 5 storm killed nearly 1,400 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Joe Biden traveled to Raleigh, North Carolina on Wednesday to meet with first responders and others affected by Helene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden praised the Democratic governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, and the Republican governor of South Carolina, Henry McMaster, for their responses to the storm, saying in the wake of disasters \u201cWe put politics aside.\u201d \u201dNo one can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore,\u201d Biden said, adding, \u201cStorms are getting stronger and stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The death toll from Hurricane Helene has exceeded 250 across six states, as clean-up and recovery operations continue. 700 people are still thought to be missing, though many may simply be disconnected… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"17","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":50454,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-64-8-png.webp","type":"image\/png"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[9940],"class_list":["post-50453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news","tag-hurricane-helenes-death-toll-passed-250-across-the-six-states-most-devastated-by-the-storm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50455,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50453\/revisions\/50455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}