Articles filed under Weather
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Hurricane Milton strengthens into a Category 5 storm. Florida orders evacuationsOct 07, 2024 7:15 am - Milton strengthened rapidly Monday into a Category 5 hurricane on a path toward Florida, threatening the densely populated Tampa area with a potential direct hit and menacing the same stretch of coastline that was battered by Hurricane Helene less than two weeks ago.
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Inside a helicopter bringing lifesaving relief to N.C.’s storm-ravaged countiesOct 04, 2024 9:07 am - ABOVE ASHE COUNTY, N.C. — Five days after Helene decimated this region, a lone man remained stranded and needed help. He was waving his arms next to a big X made from deb...
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Helene’s death toll reaches 200 as crews try to reach the most remote areas hit by the stormOct 03, 2024 12:56 pm - Hurricane Helene's death toll reached 200 on Thursday and could rise higher still, as searchers made their way toward the hardest to reach places in the mountains of western North Carolina, where the storm washed out roads and knocked out electricity, water and cellular service.
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Nearly all homes in counties hardest hit by Helene lack national flood insuranceOct 03, 2024 12:37 pm - In Buncombe County, North Carolina, where an entire town disappeared beneath floodwaters, less than 1 percent of households had flood insurance. In Unicoi County, Tenness...
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Harris, Biden take in Helene’s destruction in separate visits to Carolinas, GeorgiaOct 02, 2024 3:45 pm - AUGUSTA, Ga. — President Joe Biden flew over toppled trees, twisted metal and towering piles of debris in the normally tourist friendly downtown of Asheville, North Carol...
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Southerners stay in touch the old-fashioned way after Helene cuts roads, power, phonesOct 02, 2024 6:59 am - 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.
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‘Yes, we’re ready’: Suburban firefighters doing search and rescue in hurricane-ravaged North CarolinaOct 01, 2024 7:26 pm - Two dozen firefighters from Cook and DuPage counties are among the first responders doing searches and rescues and providing other assistance near Asheville, North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
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Crews search for survivors in North Carolina’s mountains days after Helene's delugeOct 01, 2024 8:12 am - Rescuers fanned out across the mountains of western North Carolina on Tuesday in search of anyone still unaccounted for since Hurricane Helene’s remnants caused catastrophic damage to the Southeast, with the death toll nearing 140 people.
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Supplies arrive by plane and mule to North Carolina as Helene death toll tops 100Sep 30, 2024 7:07 am - A crisis unfolded in western North Carolina as officials rushed to get more water, food and other supplies to flood-stricken areas without power and cellular service Monday, three days after Hurricane Helene ripped across the U.S. Southeast. The death toll from the storm approached 100.
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‘Short corn’ could replace the towering cornfields steamrolled by a changing climateSep 29, 2024 6:00 am - Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly everything other than the sun and an occasional water tower.