President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit the devastated areas in North and South Carolina on Wednesday.
10:53•Updated 10:56
The death toll from Hurricane Helen has risen to 166, according to AP’s calculations. The storm is one of the most destructive in recent years in the United States.
In North Carolina’s Buncombe County and the city of Asheville alone, 57 people died.
Many residents in North and South Carolina are still without clean water, telephone connections and electricity. Damages are estimated at billions of dollars.
– The process of recovering from the storm must be started urgently. People are desperate, said the president Joe Biden on Tuesday.
Biden is scheduled to visit disaster areas in North and South Carolina. Vice President and Presidential Candidate Terrible Harris go to Georgia instead.
More than 150,000 households have registered themselves in the littovalto program as needing help. The number is expected to rise in the coming days.
Two million food rations and more than one million liters of water have been delivered to the worst affected areas. Delivering help becomes easier. because on Tuesday, highway 40 connecting Tennessee and North Carolina was opened to traffic again after mudslides.
Search patrols continue to search for survivors in the Appalachian Mountains. The National Guard of North Carolina calculates that it has rescued more than 500 people in distress after the storm.
AP, Reuters