2024-10-02 06:15:27
In the wake of Hurricane Helene, the relief effort has been in full swing in the United States. SEAN RAYFORD/GETTY IMAGES via AFP
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Helene’s money is growing every day. Relief operations continued on Tuesday in the southeast of the United States, several days after the record of Hurricane Helene which caused at least 155 deaths, while Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will visit this Wednesday, October 2 , separately, in disaster areas.
Many areas were inaccessible by road and more than 1.4 million homes and businesses were still without power on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. (1:30 a.m. Wednesday, Paris time), according to the official site. energy consumption.us.
“We know the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene is beyond what we can imagine”North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper said Tuesday. His state, which was hardest hit by the typhoon, claimed at least 74 deaths on Tuesday.
“Areas have been wiped off the map”added the governor during a press conference, specifying that the authorities expect the cost to worsen.
Liz Sherwood-Randall, Joe Biden’s home security adviser, said on Monday that authorities have not heard from 600 people, saying that she still hopes that some of these people are still there. “envy”.
President 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 25 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.
Trump attacked Biden
Donald Trump visited a town in Georgia hit by a hurricane on Monday, and accused the federal government of not “reaction” faced with the scale of the disaster. The Republican candidate has also accused North Carolina officials, led by Democrat Roy Cooper, of “deliberately not helping people in Republican districts”.
“You are lyingretorted a virulent Joe Biden. What makes me angry [c’est qu’il] means we don’t do everything possible […]. This is wrong and irresponsible. »
Joe Biden has already indicated that he will not travel as long as it can interfere with relief operations.
In South Carolina, at least 36 deaths have been recorded, while Florida has 14, Tennessee 4 and Virginia 2, according to a report compiled Tuesday by AFP from statements by local authorities.
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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, Helene caused flash floods with extensive 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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