(Latest known state death totals from Helene)

[nitpicked]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/10/03/hurricane-helene-aftermath-live-updates/75493504007/

ASHEVILLE, N.C. ? The death toll surpassed 200 as the need for power and water grew more urgent Thursday for hundreds of thousands of residents across the Southeast a week after Hurricane Helene began a deadly, devastating march across the region.

Outages decreased from a peak of more than 4.5 million reports last week, but about 784,000 homes and businesses remained without power across Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Tens of thousands of residents, most in western North Carolina, remained without running water.

According to a USA TODAY Network analysis, the number of confirmed deaths in the region crossed the 200 threshold Thursday when North Carolina officials said the state's tally had risen to 97, a figure that later climbed to 108. In addition, South Carolina has reported 41 fatalities, Georgia 33, Florida 19, Tennessee 11 and Virginia two for a total of 214.

Helene is now the fourth deadliest hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. mainland since 1950 and the deadliest since Katrina in 2005.
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[nitpicked]

1. Besides Katrina

The other two hurricanes (per Wikipedia) were Audrey (1957, at least 416) and Camille (1969, at least 256 US).

[jaxexpat]

3. I remember those storms.

Audry: My 4-year-old self was confused and disappointed to learn that Steve Allen's wife's sister, whom I'd recently met on our new Admiral, would be the cruel sister. Like the wicked witch of the west v the good witch of the north, both of whom I'd recently met on that same TeeVee. Mid-century sensory overload took no prisoners.
Camille: Heavy rain messed up my grandfather's tobacco staked out in the field. Costly and muddy, all-hands-on-deck affair to deal with. The party in Woodstock, though, kinda stole oxygen from the disaster news.

[live love laugh]

2. Red states don't always report this kind of data accurately.

[PennRalphie]

4. Friends have family in Boone, NC

The amount of devastation and death is just beyond imagination, according to them. Their family wasn’t affected by the water, but had the wind. No power no cell service, there's starlink hookups around the area.

I think people keep forgetting NC has a Democratic governor. Asheville is a very progressive city.

[GP6971]

6. Back again I see.

Don’t you ever tire of pizza?

[FSogol]

7. why do you instanly believe every RW talking point and dumbass tweet? Why let it make

you so angry that you spam DU with nonsense 24/7?

Get some help and go away.

[OneGrassRoot]

9. I don't know that we ever get accurate death tolls...

after such disasters as Katrina and what we now see in WNC. Bodies are being discovered in debris fields. It's a nightmare. They're trying to rescue people still and then have to focus on recovering the bodies being reported around the area, while simultaneously keeping well-intentioned helpers out of the way because in many cases they're disrupting what the local fire departments and others are trying to do.

BTW, I have a feeling I know you. Care to send me a PM and tell me who you are? You likely are indeed a former acquaintance here or there who fully caved to QANON in 2020. Anti-vaxxer perhaps?