Rescue crews and volunteers in the remote mountains of North Carolina are facing obstacles at every turn, paddling canoes across swollen rivers and steering horses past mudslides in a race to reach those stranded or missing after Hurricane Helene’s rampage, which killed more than 200 people throughout the Southeast.
The exact number of missing or unaccounted for remains unclear. The death toll rose to 215 on Thursday as more victims were found, making Helene the deadliest hurricane to hit the mainland U.S. since Katrina in 2005. Roughly half of the victims were in North Carolina, with dozens more killed in South Carolina and Georgia.
Along the Cane River in western North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, rescuers from the Pensacola Volunteer Fire Department cleared their way through trees at the top of a valley nearly a week after a wall of chocolate-milk-colored water swept through for hours.
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Helene's death toll tops 200, search for the missing continues
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