MIAMI, Florida, USA – Una storm surge unprecedented flooding and damage to structures and trees that have so far left at least four dead y dozens of people trapped in their homes It is the desolate panorama with which the dawn southeastern United States after the arrival last night of the powerful Hurricane Helene to the northwest coast of Florida.
The serious impact of Helene, which made landfall around midnight on Thursday in the so-called Big Bend de Florida like a powerful hurricane 4continues this Friday its escalating destruction in Georgia and the Carolinasstates in which their inhabitants are preparing for the worst.
Of the four deaths reported, one has occurred in Florida, as confirmed by the state governor. Ron DeSantisdue to the fall of a pole, two more in Alamo, Georgiaand another one in North Carolina.
Helene degraded to tropical storm
Although downgraded to tropical storm This Friday, it is expected that the threat from Helene will continue while the arduous rescue and search tasks for victims are just beginning, some of them elderly people who did not want to vacate their homes.
In the area of Cedar Keynear where Helene made landfall, patrols began early in the morning to remove trees from the main roads to maintain the flow of rescuers.
In its most recent newsletter, the National Hurricane Center The US National Highway Administration (NHC) reported that Helene is still producing “damaging wind gusts and potentially life-threatening flooding in several parts of the Southeast and southern Appalachians.”
Flash flood threat in Atlanta
Although Tallahassee, the capital of Florida, was spared the direct impact it feared, because the system moved a little further to the east, other capitals, such as Atlanta, Georgia, remain under emergency due to flash flooding in its metropolitan area, detailed the NHC.
More than 2.5 million people in the American southeast are under this threat, while blackouts reach more than two million customers, according to the portal poweroutage.us.
The tropical storm was located this Friday about 60 kilometers southwest of Clemson, South Carolina, and about 130 kilometers northeast of Atlanta, Georgia.
The system has maximum sustained winds of 95 kilometers per hour and is moving north at 40 kilometers per hour.
The authorities fear severe damage from storm surge along portions of Florida’s Big Bend coast, where the Flood has reached unprecedented levels.
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