{"id":212711,"date":"2024-09-29T10:28:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T14:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=212711"},"modified":"2024-09-29T10:28:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T14:28:30","slug":"hurricane-helene-aftermath-at-least-64-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/hurricane-helene-aftermath-at-least-64-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Helene aftermath: At least 64 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"antig-1451415844\" class=\"antig-ecab antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:342\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1201\" height=\"401\"   \/><\/a><\/div><div id=\"antig-3699072976\" class=\"antig-before-content antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/medicalbenefitsscheme\" aria-label=\"mbs ad\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1200\/h:400\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/mbs-ad.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1200\/h:400\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/mbs-ad.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/mbs-ad.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:341\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/mbs-ad.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/mbs-ad.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>(AP) \u2014 Massive rains from powerful\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-helene-florida-georgia-storm-surge-48bc645cdc70bf40c0b62457e87dd1de\">Hurricane Helene<\/a>\u00a0left people stranded, without shelter and awaiting rescue Saturday, as the cleanup began from a tempest that killed at least 64 people, caused widespread destruction across the U.S. Southeast and left millions without power.<\/p><div id=\"antig-2616389751\" class=\"antig-content_5 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ablpag\" aria-label=\"ABLP_2026_Launch_English_Digital-BB\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_2026_Launch_English_Digital-BB-1.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_2026_Launch_English_Digital-BB-1.png 2160w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:150\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_2026_Launch_English_Digital-BB-1.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:512\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_2026_Launch_English_Digital-BB-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:384\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_2026_Launch_English_Digital-BB-1.png 768w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1536\/h:768\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_2026_Launch_English_Digital-BB-1.png 1536w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_2026_Launch_English_Digital-BB-1.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"2160\" height=\"1080\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never seen so many people homeless as what I have right now,\u201d said Janalea England, of Steinhatchee, Florida, a small river town along the state\u2019s rural Big Bend, as she turned her commercial fish market into a storm donation site for friends and neighbors, many of whom couldn\u2019t get insurance on their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helene&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-helene-florida-georgia-mexico-42fb7cc90604b7f87179920f97627873\">blew ashore<\/a>&nbsp;in Florida\u2019s Big Bend region as a Category 4 hurricane late Thursday with winds of 140 mph (225 kph).<\/p><div id=\"antig-62843814\" class=\"antig-content_4 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:342\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1201\" height=\"401\"   \/><\/a><\/div><div id=\"antig-1782792800\" class=\"antig-content_12 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ablpag\" aria-label=\"ABLP_2026_Launch_English-_lineup_Digital-BB (1)\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_2026_Launch_English-_lineup_Digital-BB-1.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_2026_Launch_English-_lineup_Digital-BB-1.png 2160w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:150\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_2026_Launch_English-_lineup_Digital-BB-1.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:512\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_2026_Launch_English-_lineup_Digital-BB-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:384\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_2026_Launch_English-_lineup_Digital-BB-1.png 768w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1536\/h:768\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_2026_Launch_English-_lineup_Digital-BB-1.png 1536w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_2026_Launch_English-_lineup_Digital-BB-1.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"2160\" height=\"1080\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>From there, it quickly moved through Georgia, where Gov. Brian Kemp said Saturday that it \u201clooks like a bomb went off\u201d after viewing splintered homes and debris-covered highways from the air. Weakened, Helene then soaked the Carolinas and Tennessee with torrential rains, sending creeks and rivers over their banks and straining dams.<\/p><div id=\"antig-2350686766\" class=\"antig-content antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ReggaeInTheParkAntigua\" aria-label=\"lucanio\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:864\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lucanio.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:864\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lucanio.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:240\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lucanio.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:819\/h:1024\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lucanio.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lucanio.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-helene-asheville-flooding-north-carolina-tennessee-078a298cdcaaf46749f3f6683a4e1057\">Western North Carolina<\/a>&nbsp;was isolated because of landslides and flooding that forced the closure of Interstate 40 and other roads. All those closures delayed the start of the East Tennessee State University football game against The Citadel because the Buccaneers\u2019 drive to Charleston, South Carolina, took 16 hours.<a><\/a><\/p><div id=\"antig-2763106674\" class=\"antig-content_2 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.com\/antigua\/\" aria-label=\"500X500 (1)\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:500\/h:500\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/500X500-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:500\/h:500\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/500X500-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/500X500-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:150\/h:150\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/500X500-1.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/a40dcbb\/2147483647\/strip\/false\/crop\/6000x4000+0+0\/resize\/1486x991!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fca%2F7a%2F1bf6619c99c389f40a4dd49f8b9e%2F361dc18f3549463a95a0c413c96257d9\" alt=\"At least 64 dead after Helene's march across the U.S. Southeast\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-helene-tropical-weather-destruction-16b41006d3cb6fedad78d19ca3f389a9\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-helene-tropical-weather-destruction-16b41006d3cb6fedad78d19ca3f389a9\">At least 64 dead after Helene&#8217;s march across the U.S. Southeast<\/a><\/p><div id=\"antig-4106171202\" class=\"antig-content_3 antig-entity-placement\"><a 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height=\"401\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/bbdaabb\/2147483647\/strip\/false\/crop\/5349x3566+0+0\/resize\/1486x991!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fea%2Fff%2F58cf319dfb94a52f4f6488a0c677%2Ffe152dab29404de29b5a03ebca923180\" alt=\"Hurricane Helene makes landfall in northwestern Florida\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-helene-florida-georgia-mexico-42fb7cc90604b7f87179920f97627873\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-helene-florida-georgia-mexico-42fb7cc90604b7f87179920f97627873\">Hurricane Helene makes landfall in northwestern Florida<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been hundreds of water rescues, none more dramatic than in rural Unicoi County in East Tennessee, where&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-helene-florida-georgia-north-carolina-2277be0d4b8648113508f39bfff56193\">dozens of patients and staff<\/a>&nbsp;were plucked by helicopter from a hospital rooftop Friday. And the rescues continued into the following day in Buncombe County, North Carolina, where part of Asheville was under water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo say this caught us off guard would be an understatement,\u201d said Quentin Miller, the county sheriff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asheville resident Mario Moraga said it\u2019s \u201cheartbreaking\u201d to see the damage in the Biltmore Village neighborhood and neighbors have been going house to house to check on each other and offer support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no cell service here. There\u2019s no electricity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While there have been deaths in the county, Emergency Services Director Van Taylor Jones said he wasn\u2019t ready to report specifics, partially because downed cell towers hindered efforts to contact next of kin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Relatives put out desperate pleas for help on Facebook. Among those waiting for news was Francine Cavanaugh, whose sister told her she was going to check on guests at a vacation cabin as the storm began hitting Asheville. Cavanaugh, who lives in Atlanta, hasn\u2019t been able to reach her since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think that people are just completely stuck,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The storm, now a post-tropical cyclone, was expected to hover over the Tennessee Valley on Saturday and Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Catastrophic\u2019 flooding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It unleashed the worst flooding in a century in North Carolina, where Gov. Roy Cooper described it as \u201ccatastrophic\u201d as search and rescue teams from 19 states and the federal government came to help. One community, Spruce Pine, was doused with over 2 feet (0.6 meters) of rain from Tuesday through Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in Atlanta, 11.12 inches (28.24 centimeters) of rain fell over 48 hours, the most the city has seen over two days since record keeping began in 1878.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Joe Biden said Saturday that Helene\u2019s devastation has been \u201coverwhelming\u201d and pledged to send help. He also approved a disaster declaration for North Carolina, making federal funding available for affected individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With at least 25 killed in South Carolina, Helene is the deadliest tropical cyclone for the state since Hurricane Hugo killed 35 people when it came ashore just north of Charleston in 1989. Deaths also have been reported in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moody\u2019s Analytics said it expects $15 billion to $26 billion in property damage. AccuWeather\u2019s preliminary estimate of the total damage and economic loss from Helene in the U.S. is between $95 billion and $110 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate change has exacerbated conditions that allow such storms to thrive, rapidly intensifying in warming waters and turning into powerful cyclones sometimes in a matter of hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Evacuations and overtopped dams<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Evacuations began before the storm hit and continued as lakes&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-helene-north-carolina-flooding-dam-29c07657e7664c9f06778343a87f7d2b\">overtopped dams<\/a>, including one in North Carolina that forms a lake featured in the movie \u201cDirty Dancing.\u201d Helicopters were used to rescue some people from flooded homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in Newport, Tennessee, Jonah Wark waited so long to evacuate that a boat had to come to the rescue. \u201cDefinitely a scary moment,\u201d Wark said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After touring the damage by helicopter, a stunned U.S. Rep. Diana Harshbarger said, \u201cWho would have thought a hurricane would do this much damage in East Tennessee?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the 11 confirmed deaths in Florida were nine people who drowned in their homes in a mandatory evacuation area on the Gulf Coast in Pinellas County, where St. Petersburg is located, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of the victims were from Taylor County, which is where the storm made landfall. It&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/live\/hurricane-helene-tracker-maps-updates\">came ashore<\/a>&nbsp;near the mouth of the Aucilla River, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) northwest of where&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tropical-storm-idalia\/\">Hurricane Idalia hit<\/a>&nbsp;last year at nearly the same ferocity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you had told me there was going to be 15 feet to 18 feet of storm surge, even with the best efforts, I would have assumed we would have had multiple fatalities,\u201d Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taylor County is in Florida\u2019s Big Bend, went years without taking a direct hit from a hurricane. 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