Material losses are estimated at many billions of dollars. "We have Bible-sized demolition here," said Ryan Cole, a Buncombe region official. "Helene" is the most deadly hurricane the United States has visited since the apocalyptic "Katrina" which killed at least 1392 people in 2005.
Cataclysm was formed over the highly warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, which scientists believe have heated up due to climate change. "Helene" drew energy from the hot ocean and struck the large Bend region in Florida on September 26 at night as a powerful fourth-class hurricane on a five-stage Saffira-Simpson scale. The wind reached 220 km/h. Then “Helene” weakened to the category of a tropical storm, but inactive devastating swept through Georgia, South and North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. The top ravages occurred in North Carolina, where the disaster killed at least 95 people. Among the victims are workers answering emergency calls, who remained in positions until the end. 2 firefighters, 53-year-old Chad Satcher and 18-year-old Landon Bodie died in Saluda, South Carolina erstwhile a tree fell on their car. Sheriff Michelle Quintero was the manager of Madison region County prison in Florida, which found itself on the way of a raging element. Quintero tried to get her car into prison to save the inmates, erstwhile the dam abruptly burst and the road was flooded. Her car was kidnapped by rocked waters. The female didn't survive.
Workers at the Impact Plastics mill in Erwin, Tennessee say that despite informing against the hurricane they were ordered to work. Only erstwhile the light went out and the water flooded the parking lot was allowed to evacuate. Robert Jarvis, employed at the factory, said: “I tried to escape by car, but there was adequate on the water road that only 4 - wheeled cars could break through. any guy came in this car and took any of us. If it wasn't for him, we'd be dead by now."
Joe Biden's administration sent 6,000 National defender soldiers and 4,800 national officials to help. However, the inhabitants complain that it was besides late and people had to cope on their own. possibly this tardiness from Washington will increase the chances of winning the Donald Trump presidential election, which was the first to visit the areas affected by the natural disaster. After him, Kamala Harris did, and yet Joe Biden, who said on 2 October at the briefing in Raleigh, North Carolina: “No 1 can deny the effects of the climate crisis, at least that I hope. If anyone denies it, there's no brain. present I saw the effects of this element."
