The Southern Appalachians, about 400 miles north of where Helene came ashore, suffered the most severe destruction. Two waves of torrential rain unloaded as much as 30 inches in the mountains of North Carolina, unleashing catastrophic landslides while rivers soared to unprecedented levels and lakes overflowed.

The remnants of Hurricane Helene have caused devastation across the Southeastern United States, leaving dozens dead, many stranded, and millions without power. Helene, the strongest hurricane recorded to hit Florida’s Big Bend region,

Millions across the southeastern United States are reeling after Hurricane Helene roared ashore overnight. Now a tropical storm, Helene made landfall late Thursday on Florida’s Big Bend as a Category 4 hurricane – the strongest on record to strike the area.

Hurricane Helene has caused dozens of deaths and billions of dollars of destruction across a wide swath of the southeastern U.S. as it raced through, and more than 3 million customers go into the week