Rescue crews faced obstacles at every turn in North Carolina's remote mountains in the rush to reach those stranded or missing by Hurricane Helene's rampage that killed more than 200.
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John Savage said his grandparents were found hugging one another in the bed, adding that the family thinks it was God's plan to take them together, rather than one suffer without the other.
Widespread devastation left behind by Hurricane Helene came to light Monday across the South, revealing a wasteland of splintered houses, crushed cargo containers and mud-covered highways.Â
Authorities rushed to airlift supplies and restore communications and roads in flooded Asheville, North Carolina, on Sunday as Florida residents gathered for church services amid the wreckage of Hurricane Helene.Â
Now a post-tropical cyclone, the storm was expected to hover over the Tennessee Valley on Saturday and Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said.
Hurricane Helene left an enormous path of destruction across the southeastern U.S. on Friday, snapping trees like twigs, tearing apart homes and sending rescue crews on desperate missions.
Hurricane Helene roared ashore as a powerful Category 4 storm in a sparsely populated region of Florida.Â
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