Hurricane Helene and its remnants slammed Asheville, North Carolina, and its mountainous county particularly hard over the past couple days in what one local official described as “biblical devastation.”
The storm, which became a powerful Category 4 hurricane before making landfall late on Thursday, swept through the southeastern United States into the weekend, and dozens of deaths across Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia have been attributed to it.
Visceral images of submerged buildings have emerged out of Buncombe County, and in particular Asheville, where the National Weather Service said “devastating flooding” had taken place. On Sunday, local authorities said up to 30 people were dead in the county because of the storm.
Devastating flooding in the Asheville area from Helene. https://t.co/lKFM5PQPps
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