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US: Hurricane Helene: Flooding In Clearwater, FL

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Clearwater, United States - September 26, 2024

VERIFIED: Big Bend area late Thursday night but was rapidly weakening as it raced inland early Friday, the National Hurricane Center said. Helene was bringing a life-threatening storm surge, strong winds and heavy rain, the centre said.

Some 1.3 million customers in Florida were without power as of early Friday morning, according to utility tracker PowerOutage.us, along with approximately 583,000 in Georgia. That number was growing rapidly. What more, 143,000 homes and businesses were in the dark in South Carolina and 43,000 in North Carolina.

So far, there have been at least three weather-related deaths attributed to Helene. Two people were killed in Wheeler County, Georgia, the county coroner, Ted Mercer, told CBS New by phone. No further details were provided.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis confirmed in a late-night news conference that at least one person was killed in the Tampa area when a traffic sign fell on a vehicle.

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