2024-10-02 01:34:35
“We know that the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene exceeded expectations,” said Tuesday, October 1, the governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, a few days after the death of the storm in the southeast of the United States, which caused the death of at least 155 people.
“Areas have been wiped off the map”added, during a press conference, the governor of his state, the most affected by the typhoon, has hit at least 74 deaths on Tuesday.
United States President Joe Biden will travel to North Carolina on Wednesday, while Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate on November 5, will travel to Georgia, where twenty-five deaths have been recorded. Their respective trips come as the federal authorities’ response to the disaster has become part of the presidential campaign. Georgia and North Carolina are among seven key states that could swing the election.
Donald Trump visited a town in Georgia affected by the hurricane on Monday and accused the federal government of not “reaction” faced with the scale of the disaster. The Republican candidate has also accused the authorities in North Carolina, by Democrat Roy Cooper, of “deliberately not helping people in Republican districts”. “You’re lying”retorted a virulent Joe Biden. “What makes me angry [c’est qu’il] means we don’t do everything possible. (…) It is wrong and irresponsible. “.
More than 1.4 million homes and businesses are without electricity
On Tuesday evening, during a televised debate between the two US vice presidential candidates, Republican JD Vance, against Democrat Tim Walz, criticized the Biden administration’s response to the tragedy: “Americans need their government to do its job. And I promise that when Donald Trump is president again, the government will put the citizens of this country first when they suffer a disaster. »
More than 1.4 million homes and businesses were still without power on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. local time (1:30 a.m. Wednesday, Paris time), according to the expert site. energy consumption.us.
In South Carolina, at least thirty-four deaths have been recorded, while Florida has fourteen, Tennessee four and Virginia two, according to a report compiled Tuesday by Agence France-Presse based on information from the authority.
Areas that cannot be accessed by road
The authorities expect the total cost to worsen further, as many areas cannot be accessed by road. Liz Sherwood-Randall, Joe Biden’s home security adviser, said on Monday that authorities had not heard from 600 people, saying that she still hoped that some of these people had come. “envy”.
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Rescuers continue to work to try to find survivors and bring food to the population hit by the disaster, sometimes still cut off from the world. In the southern Appalachian Mountains, Hélène caused widespread flooding with impressive damage. Pictures from the area of Asheville, North Carolina, show damaged areas here, roads destroyed there by a flooded river. Due to lack of access by road, authorities are sending relief supplies, water and food by air.
For Joe Biden, no “no doubt” that these destructions are due to climate change which, by warming the oceans, makes, according to scientists, the speed of the storms more likely to increase the risk of stronger hurricanes.
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