Photos of devastation caused by Helene’s floodwaters in North Carolina
After battering Florida as a Category 4 hurricane Thursday, Helene dumped historic rainfall on Georgia, the Carolinas and other states, spurring flash flooding and leaving scores of people confirmed dead, with others still missing. The highest death toll was in North Carolina, where flooding wiped out whole communities. Residents there and across vast areas of the Southeast were without water, power, and phone and internet communication. Rescues continued Sunday as the flood started to recede.