Important Takeaways:

• Helene’s path of destruction stretched more than 500 miles, from coastal Florida to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
• Short on supplies, power and patience, storm victims who saw the brutal force of Helene upend their lives have emerged to a new week, facing the daunting challenge of rebuilding.
• Some of the roads and bridges they need to do the job aren’t there anymore.
• Electricity could be a week away or longer.
• Emergency services are stretched.
• Communications infrastructure is in shreds.
• North Carolina suffered the highest death toll, at least 42 so far
• At least 25 storm victims also perished in South Carolina, 17 in Georgia, 11 in Florida, four in Tennessee and two in Virginia.
• More than 2 million customers remain without power
• Officials in Buncombe County, North Carolina – where at least 30 people have died – have received about 600 missing persons reports through an online form

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