Weather
The latest Weather coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
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Soul-searching and regret over unheeded warnings follow Helene’s destruction
Before Hurricane Helene's landfall last week, the National Weather Service began an all-out blitz to alert emergency planners, first responders and residents across the Southeast that the storm's heavy rains and high winds could bring disaster hundreds of miles from the coast.
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Twin babies who died alongside their mother in Georgia are youngest-known Hurricane Helene victims
Obie Williams could hear babies crying and branches battering the windows when he answered his daughter's daily phone call last week as Hurricane Helene tore through her rural Georgia town.
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As search for Helene’s victims drags into second week, sheriff says rescuers ‘will not rest’
Hurricane's death toll tops 200
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Hurricane Helene brings climate change to forefront of the presidential campaign
The devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene has brought climate change to the forefront of the presidential campaign after the issue lingered on the margins for months.
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Florida communities hit three times by hurricanes grapple with how and whether to rebuild
It was just a month ago that Brooke Hiers left the state-issued emergency trailer where her family had lived since Hurricane Idalia slammed into her Gulf Coast fishing village of Horseshoe Beach in August 2023.
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Grandparents found hugging one another after fallen tree killed them in their South Carolina home
As Hurricane Helene roared outside, the wind howling and branches snapping, John Savage went to his grandparents' bedroom to make sure they were OK.
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Southerners stay in touch the old-fashioned way after Helene cuts roads, power, phones
Isolated and without electricity or phone service since Hurricane Helene inflicted devastation across the Southeast nearly a week ago, residents in the mountains of western North Carolina are relying on old-fashioned ways of communicating and coping.
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Helene death toll now at least 166 as Biden plans to visit ravaged Carolinas
President Joe Biden will survey the devastation in North and South Carolina on Wednesday as rescuers continue their search for anyone still unaccounted for after Hurricane Helene caused catastrophic damage across the Southeast and killed at least 166 people.
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Search crews with cadaver dogs wade through muck of communities ‘wiped off the map’ by Helene
Death toll passes 150
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Biden plans survey of devastation in North Carolina as Helene’s death toll tops 130
President Joe Biden was set to survey the devastation in the mountains of Western North Carolina on Wednesday, where exhausted emergency workers continued to work around-the-clock to clear roads, restore power and cellphone service, and reach people left stranded by Hurricane Helene.
