Hurricane Helene was a historic storm that will be on the minds of those affected for years to come. During the evening of Sept. 26, the storm made landfall along Florida’s Big Bend area as a category 4 with wind speeds of 140 mph.

W hen Hurricane HELENE hit Florida’s Big Bend on September 26th it was hard to imagine that it would wreak the most devastation over 400 miles north in the Appalachian mountains. Officials report that flooding across the Southeast has killed about 200 people,

Helene’s death count in North Carolina is by no means final. But Lau was one of dozens known to have been killed after the hurricane’s powerful remnants reached Western North Carolina, with more fatal tragedies yet to be reported or even discovered.

By Karl Plume ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of western North Carolina residents remained without running water on Wednesday, six days after Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida and carved a destructive path through much of U.

Under pressure to control housing costs, Republican lawmakers rejected standards meant to protect against disasters, experts say.

This map shows rainfall from Helene and in the days preceding the storm that combined to create disastrous flooding.

Helene’s rainfall would have been enough to cause flooding anywhere, but it was exacerbated by a weather front that had stalled over the Appalachians befo

Post-apocalyptic’ scenes in North Carolina as hundreds more feared dead from storm - Death toll continues to climb as at least 133 people killed by Helene, with 40 people dead and 600 still missing in