This was what everyone feared would happen, as we waited for Category 4 Hurricane Helene to move onshore in Florida, and make its way north to Georgia, the Carolinas, and Appalachia this weekend. The storm has left a trail of death and destruction, with at least 44 people dead, and others critically injured, across four Southeastern U.S. states, and power outages as far afield as Indiana and Ohio being reported late Friday night into Saturday morning.
via the Associated Press:
Hurricane Helene left an enormous path of destruction across Florida and the entire southeastern U.S. on Friday, killing at least 44 people in four states, snapping trees like twigs, tearing apart homes and sending rescue crews on desperate missions to save people from floodwaters.
Among those killed were three firefighters, a woman and her 1-month-old twins, and an 89-year-old woman whose house was struck by a…
