Helene top stories
Gerard Albert III
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Blue Ridge Public Radio
Initial impacts from Helene — which hit the Carolinas as a tropical storm — are over. Emergency workers toiled around the clock to clear roads, restore power and phone service, and reach people stranded by the storm, which killed at least 133 people across the Southeast, a toll expected to rise.
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NC Gov. Office
Helene brought catastrophic damage to scores of roads in western North Carolina. This map, maintained by the N.C. Department of Transportation, tracks the current status of road closures.
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The city of Asheville has restored running water to most of its users nearly a month after Hurricane Helene damaged infrastructure and killed more than 200 people around the region. A boil water notice will remain in effect indefinitely as workers clear sediment from reservoirs and run water quality tests. Some residents find the guidelines for daily tasks without potable water lengthy and confusing. -
More than 6,000 North Carolina households are in FEMA-provided hotels. FEMA spokesman Darrell Habisch, based at the American Tobacco Historic District in Durham, says it's not clear how many had to move to the Triangle.
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The multimillion dollar project will focus on the Town of Nags Head and could improve the area’s storm response. -
Pregnant and newly postpartum women found themselves displaced by Helene — confronting canceled appointments, reworked birth plans and the loss of their belongings.
