🌀Hurricane Helene left an enormous path of destruction across Florida and the southeastern 🇺🇸 U.S. on Friday, killing at least 45 people, snapping towering oaks like twigs and tearing apart homes as rescue crews launched 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 falling tree. According to an Associated Press tally, the deaths occurred in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

The Category 4 hurricane knocked out power to some hospitals in southern Georgia, and Gov. Brian Kemp said authorities had to use chainsaws to clear debris and open up roads. The storm had maximum sustained winds of 140 mph (225 kph) when it made landfall late Thursday in a sparsely populated region in Florida’s rural Big Bend area, home to fishing villages and vacation hideaways where the state’s panhandle and peninsula meet.

Moody’s Analytics said it expects $15 billion to $26 billion in property damage.

The wreckage extended hundreds of miles northward to northeast Tennessee, where a “ dangerous rescue situation ” by helicopter unfolded after 54 people were moved to the roof of the Unicoi County Hospital as water rapidly flooded the facility. Everyone was rescued and no one was left at the hospital as of late Friday afternoon, Ballad Health said.

In North Carolina, a lake featured in the movie “Dirty Dancing” overtopped a dam and surrounding neighborhoods were evacuated, although there were no immediate concerns it would fail. People also were evacuated from Newport, Tennessee, a city of about 7,000 people, amid concerns about a dam near there, although officials later said the structure had not failed.

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They battling natural disaster and we battling steady hunger over here.

Tinubu dañ burú bà

I can see Helinues swimming to safety...

The main problem is their wooden houses. Every little breeze, their houses are falling apart. They loath solid structures. Just woods and nails. And they will charge millioms for those wooden coffins that are vulnerable every hurricane season.

The only thing the US is good at is regime change and sponsoring terrorists....

MadPolitician:
The main problem is their wooden houses. Every little breeze, their houses are falling apart. They loath solid structures. Just woods and nails. And they will charge millioms for those wooden coffins that are vulnerable every hurricane season.

It because of natural disaster like this they prefer wood. Take in the cold weather as well.

Concrete and brick are expensive to built with there. I would say the prefer that, easy to renovate, built is perfect and cheap.

What do I even know . . . It their architecture style.

Chai...WriterNig. take it easy.

Something must kill a man in USA..

Omoh we no get problem for here yet o

Home insurance about to triple 🤣🤣🤣🤣

CodeTemplarr:
Chai...WriterNig. take it easy.

The guy gives all the vibes of a sick human being.

Mercy LORD

This world ehn, wahala just too much.
You dey Nigeria Na another matter.
You dey American another matter.

May Person Sha give him life to Jesus cos this world get as he be.

diamond68:

what's funny ?

Florida and hurricane all the time.

Wow

RIP to them

PerfectStranger:
They battling natural disaster and we battling steady hunger over here.

Tinubu dañ burú bà

Hahaha please don't kill me with laughter

Your figure 48 is inaccurate, the number is far more more 48. We should be talking about 100 now.

Natural disasters everywhere.

Nawa o

Dammmmmmmmnnnn it😳😳😳😳
... and the only hurricane ravaging Nig are criminal, self serving poliTHIEFcians with the corridors of power 💯💯💯💯💯

WriterNig:
...

Na Old News-On over 4- days ago!

Maiduguri part II

If not for bad leaders, we are blessed in this country aswear.

more safety caution ,









that is nature for you.














We love you Princess FChukwu