Emergency teams are trying to restore power and confront the consequences of the hurricane, which led to the flooding of roads, homes, and stores, and the destruction of many of them.
A tally compiled by Agence France-Presse, based on data from local authorities, stated that at least 24 people were killed in South Carolina, 17 in Georgia, 11 in Florida, 10 in North Carolina, and one person in Virginia.
The US National Hurricane Center said: “Conditions will continue to improve on Saturday Floods catastrophic events over the past two days.
And he arrived Hurricane Helen It made landfall in northwest Florida on Thursday evening, reaching Category 4 on a scale of 5 degrees, with winds blowing at speeds of 225 kilometers per hour.
A federal state of emergency was declared in 6 states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
On the island of Cedar Keys, which has a population of a few hundred people and is located on the west coast of Florida, roofs of houses collapsed and walls were destroyed.
The storm then moved to several American states, causing landslides and severe floods, even Asheville in North Carolina.
“This is one of the worst,” Gov. Ray Cooper said at a briefing Friday evening Storms In recent history, it struck parts of the west of the state, noting that “emergency teams are continuing rescue operations.”
The National Weather Service warned that a dam in East Tennessee was about to collapse, and urged residents of towns downstream to “immediately move to higher ground.”
