“I did not expect this bad" - Atlanta hit with flooding as Helene wreaks havoc

Record ID: 1844535

  • Title: “I did not expect this bad" - Atlanta hit with flooding as Helene wreaks havoc
  • Date: 27th September 2024
  • Summary: ATLANTA, GEORGIA, UNITED STATES (September 27, 2024) (Reuters) FLOODING NEAR CROSS CREEK CONDOS, AN ATLANTA COMMUNITY RESIDENTS GATHERING NEAR FLOOD WATERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) CROSS CREEK RESIDENT, STUART SHELDON, SAYING: “Last night was much less intense than the forecast. I'm thankful for that. We were expecting 60 mile an hour winds. I think it was probably more in th
  • Embargoed: 11th October 2024 18:19
  • Keywords: Aftermath Flooding Storm Helene
  • Location: ATLANTA, GEORGIA, UNITED STATES
  • City: ATLANTA, GEORGIA, UNITED STATES
  • Country: US
  • Topics: Disaster/Accidents,Floods,North America
  • Reuters ID: LVA001750827092024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Tropical Storm Helene caused wide destruction through Florida and Georgia overnight, killing at least five people, swamping neighborhoods and leaving more than 4 million homes and businesses without power.
    Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said on X that two people in Wheeler County had died after a tornado touched down during the storm, and an ABC News affiliate reported that a firefighter was killed when a tree fell on his vehicle in Blackshear, Georgia.
    Police and firefighters carried out thousands of water rescues throughout the affected states, including in Atlanta, where an apartment complex had to be evacuated due to flooding.
    Helene came ashore in Florida with 140 mph (225 kph) winds, weakening to a tropical storm as it moved into Georgia early on Friday (September 27). It was carrying maximum sustained winds of 60 mph (97 kph) as of 8 a.m. and was forecast to continue shuffling northward toward the Tennessee Valley.
    More than 4 million homes and businesses were out of power in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas, with tens of thousands more facing outages in Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky, according to the tracking website Poweroutage.us.
    Reinsurance broker Gallagher Re said preliminary private insurance losses could reach $3 billion to $6 billion, with additional losses to federal insurance programs approaching a potential $1 billion.
    (Production: Jayla Whitfield-Anderson, Rollo Ross)
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