USA: Number of Victims of Hurricane Helene Reaches 130 People
But the number of missing people, about 600, suggests the final casualty count will be much higher
As of October 1, the death toll from Hurricane Helene, which hit the southeastern United States, has reached 130. The tropical storm made landfall on September 26 and has since left nothing but devastation in six different states: Virginia, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina. Its journey covered 800 kilometers.
When Helene arrived in Florida, it was classified as a Category 4 hurricane, the second highest level on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale (SSHS), which measures the intensity of tropical typhoons. Initial damage estimates range from 20 to 100 billion dollars; millions of people have been left without power, and the number of deaths has reached 130: 56 in North Carolina, 30 in South Carolina, 25 in Georgia, 11 in Florida, 6 in Tennessee, and 2 in Virginia. But the death toll will only increase, given that hundreds of people are missing. The White House has announced that “the number of deaths from Hurricane Helene in the United States could reach 600.”
Donald Trump flew to Georgia, where he went all out attacking the government, explaining that “Joe Biden was sleeping” on the beach instead of organizing humanitarian aid, and criticized Kamala Harris, who was in Nevada to raise funds rather than in the affected disaster areas. Biden assured that the government “will assist the affected states as long as necessary. It was something we had never seen before.”
