Angel Mitchell was in knots Friday morning at the eastern Tennessee hospital where her 83-year-old mother had been admitted days earlier for pneumonia. While Mitchell and her brother visited their mother, who was undergoing tests at Unicoi County Hospital, she could hear urgent conversations among the nurses to evacuate the small facility in Erwin, nestled…
More than 150 deaths have been confirmed since Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm, including dozens in flood-stricken North Carolina. “Communities were wiped off the map,” North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said. Entire communities in the state are underwater, with dozens of people dead in Buncombe County. Just before Helene…
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Four days after Hurricane Helene ravaged this community, there are lines for groceries, lines for gas, lines to get into shelters and lines at charging stations to juice up cellphones. Outside the Mellow Mushroom, there was a long line of people Tuesday waiting for something that has also been hard to come…
The death toll has risen to at least 175 across the Southeast since Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm last week, and hundreds of people are still missing amid the historic flooding. Power connections are being restored, but about 1.3 million energy customers are still without power from Florida to…
SWANNANOA, N.C. — Flattened homes, impassable roads, swamped fields, downed power lines, raw emotions. Nearly a week after Hurricane Helene pummeled this small mountain town 20 miles east of Asheville, residents and business owners were trickling back Wednesday to see what was left and what could be salvaged. Beverly and Baxter Eller barely escaped the…
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring two more tropical cyclones growing stronger in the Atlantic on Thursday. Hurricane Kirk and Tropical Storm Leslie currently pose no direct threat to land, but threaten to bring more rain to regions already reeling in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Kirk was upgraded to hurricane status Tuesday night and…
Former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle has been using a private helicopter to deliver supplies to stranded victims of Hurricane Helene in parts of western North Carolina. Biffle, a NASCAR Hall of Fame nominee and pilot, is documenting the supply runs on X, where commenters are praising him for his efforts. Biffle, a NASCAR Hall of…
The Summary More than 50 heat records were broken in the Western U.S. on Wednesday. Daily temperature records included a high of 108 degrees Fahrenheit in Phoenix and 106 degrees in San Jose, California. The October heat wave is expected to continue into the weekend, with extreme conditions in California, Arizona, Nevada and other states….
“The amount of supplies that have been donated, the number of pilots who have shown up with their own planes and at their own expense, has been amazing,” said Carroll, 36, of Durham, North Carolina. “Some of the pilots have been flying in with their planes already packed with supplies.” Pilot Gerald Herbert, 60, who…
The Summary Flooding in North Carolina following Hurricane Helene has led to swarms of yellow jackets. Heavy rain and standing water likely destroyed the insects’ nests underground and in trees. State health officials said they have bought Benadryl and EpiPens to help people who get stung, especially those with allergies. Severe flooding in western North…
