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Why has God unleashed floods and hurricanes upon the God loving Bible Belt causing unprecedented disasters? What have they don't to offend God?
Helene aftermath: Southeast reels from deadly storm damage and heavy
flooding
Tomorrow, President Joe Biden will visit North Carolina and Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Georgia to assess the damage.
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Stunning new images show Hurricane Helene's path of destruction
Updated Oct. 2, 2024, 12:35 AM EDT
By NBC News
This live blog has now ended. Follow the latest updates here.
4d ago / 12:35 AM EDT
Stories of survival, heroism and hope emerge amid heartbreak
Priscilla Thompson
Reporting from Johnson City, Tenn.
01:29
Hospital staff members in Tennessee made sure dozens of patients were
rescued after a flooding disaster. Across the country, volunteers are
helping with disaster relief.
4d ago / 12:02 AM EDT
A tree punched a hole in his roof. He's staying put for now.
Evan Bush
A tree crashed into Doug Miller’s house in Arden, North Carolina, on Friday
and punched a hole in his roof when the remnants of Hurricane Helene
struck. Another tree took out his van.
“We spent the first few nights in our neighbors' house, God bless them, to
make sure this tree is not going to make like a cheese slicer and slice its
way through the block of cheese — our house," Miller said.
Miller covered the tree with a tarp and has returned home since.
“It seems to be staying in a stable position," he said. "We’re staying in a different part of the house. It’s not overhead.”
Miller, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of North
Carolina Asheville, said his neighborhood has banded together to check in
on one another, share food and saw down trees blocking roads. He reckons
his area won’t have running water for two to three weeks.
Miller had followed the forecast carefully, and he expected Asheville to
take a serious blow, but not like this.
“We weren’t expecting it to be this bad,” Miller said. “A lot of people
were hit by basically hurricane-force winds and rain — it was still a very intense storm. We were seeing gusts that were easily 60-70 mph and
potentially 80. What I saw was rain horizontally and trees moving in ways I never expected.”
4d ago / 11:31 PM EDT
Region's senators pushing for quick action from Congress
Julie Tsirkin and Frank Thorp V
A bipartisan group of senators from states affected by Helene is calling
for Congress to act quickly to pass disaster relief, perhaps returning
early from its recess, which is supposed to last until after the Nov. 5 election.
All senators from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Tennessee and Virginia signed a letter today addressed to Senate leadership
and top appropriators (senators charged with writing spending bills) with
the request.
“Although the true level of devastation is still unfolding, it is clear
that Congress must act to meet the unmet needs in our states and address
the scope and scale of destruction experienced by our constituents,” the senators wrote.
“This may even require Congress to come back in October to ensure we have enough time to enact legislation before the end of this calendar year,”
they added.
It remains unlikely that Congress will return early from its recess.
Congress just passed a government funding bill that is expected to give the Federal Emergency Management Agency the resources it needs in the near
term. And, as NBC News has reported, officials are expected to take several weeks to finish assessing hurricane damage and determine what additional resources are required from Congress.
Still, a letter from senators whose constituents are most affected by the
storm carries weight, and the optics of being off on recess during a
natural disaster are not helping.
4d ago / 10:49 PM EDT
Sam Brock
Reporting from Swannanoa, North Carolina
Drinking water crisis in North Carolina days after flooding disaster
02:31
Access to water is a critical need in western North Carolina as the region struggles days after the flooding disaster caused by Hurricane Helene. Many
of the pipes that deliver the water were washed away.
Some families are still trying to get in touch with loved ones who haven’t
been heard from.
4d ago / 10:17 PM EDT
World Central Kitchen has served more than 64,000 meals in hurricane-hit
states
Dennis Romero
World Central Kitchen, the nonprofit disaster relief organization founded
by celebrity chef José Andrés, said today it has served 64,049 meals in
North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida and Georgia.
The organization, aided by 16 restaurant-based partners in North Carolina
and Tennessee, has also distributed 5,200 sandwiches in those storm-
affected states, it said in a statement.
It has set up field production kitchens in Clearwater, Florida, and
Asheville, North Carolina, the latter emerging as the center of the
hardest-hit region in the wake of the hurricane. At least 57 people are confirmed dead in Buncombe County, where Asheville is, according to Sheriff Quentin Miller.
Five tanker trucks carrying 6,200 gallons of water each were sent to
Asheville, which has suffered a breakdown of its water system, the
organization said.
Thirty-five World Central Kitchen food trucks were deployed to Florida,
Georgia and Tennessee, it said.
Two helicopters were also sent to “scout” areas in North Carolina and
Florida to determine need, the organization said. Food distribution in storm-ravaged areas, including western North Carolina, will continue to
expand this week, it said.
4d ago / 9:19 PM EDT
Georgia governor suspends gas tax after hurricane
Phil Helsel
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said tonight that he has suspended the gasoline tax
in the state as more than 400,000 homes and businesses remain without electricity.
“As Georgians recover from Hurricane Helene, with the support of our legislative partners, I have suspended the gas tax for the duration of this State of Emergency — bringing relief to communities who continue to rely on fuel to power their homes and necessary equipment,” Kemp wrote on X.
Georgia’s state gasoline tax is a little more than 32 cents per gallon.
Tonight there were 400,030 customers without power in the state, according
to the outage tracking website poweroutage.us. The utility Georgia Power
said today that Hurricane Helene was "the most destructive hurricane in the Georgia Power’s history" and that it had around 278,000 customers without electricity.
4d ago / 8:46 PM EDT
More than 1.4 million in Southeast still without power
Dennis Romero
More than 1.4 million utility customers in the Helene-ravaged Southeast
remain without power, according to the utility tracker PowerOutage.US.
South Carolina remained the state with the most customers in the dark. The number is 540,849 tonight, with the counties of Greenville (149,907) and Spartanburg (121,277) posting the largest outage numbers, which represent
more than half the known utility customers in those locations, according to PowerOutage.US.
Georgia has 412,471 customers in the dark, followed by North Carolina, with 359,170.
The numbers are a vast improvement from the time of the storm's peak destruction last week, when nearly 5 million customers were without power.
The White House said in a fact sheet that more than 50,000 personnel from outside storm-affected states were sent to help restore power and that the
Army Corps of Engineers is moving generators and other equipment to the Carolinas.
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