In the southeastern United States, where Category 4 Helene continues its destructive path, more than four million homes and offices are without electricity, according to the specialized website PowerOutage.
At least 26 deaths, streets flooded by an unprecedented storm surge, damage to structures and more than four million people without power is the desolate panorama with which the southeastern United States woke up this Friday, September 27, after the arrival of Helene as a Category 4 hurricane.
As reported early by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, one person died after a tree fell on a home in Dixie County, in the region where Helene made landfall last night as a major hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. , out of a total of 5, review EFE.
In this southern state, there are seven deaths recorded so far. DeSantis had reported two fatalities and this morning Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri reported that so far there have been five deaths, two of them due to drowning.
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Meanwhile, the office of Georgia Governor Biran Kemp reported 11 deaths, and his North Carolina counterpart, Roy Cooper, reported two deaths in this state.
The ABC network reveals that at least six deaths have already been reported in South Carolina, a figure that brings Helene’s death toll to 26.
In the southeastern United States, where Helene continues its destructive path, now as a tropical storm after entering the west coast of Florida, more than four million homes and offices are without electricity, according to the specialized website PowerOutage.
The hurricane made landfall just after 11:00 p.m. Thursday night, local time (03:00 GMT Friday), near the town of Perry, in the region of northwest Florida known as Big Bend, with maximum sustained winds of 225 kilometers per hour (140 miles).
Videos and photos show large waves hitting bridges and homes in coastal areas that were almost submerged in water during the cyclone’s passage.
So far this Friday, more than 700 flights have been canceled in the USthe vast majority of them with scheduled departures or arrivals at the international airports of Charlotte, Atlanta and Tampa.
In anticipation of Helene’s trajectory between Thursday and Friday, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, signed a disaster declaration for the states of Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and Alabama.
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