(NEXSTAR) — As the worst of Hurricane Helene’s destruction fades, many are taking to social media to share videos of the severe flooding and damage.
Helene has caused billions of dollars in destruction across a wide swath of the U.S. Southeast. More than 2 million customers were without power Sunday as some faced a continued threat of floods.
Helene blew ashore in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 hurricane late Thursday and then quickly moved through Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee, uprooting trees, splintering homes, and sending creeks and rivers over their banks and straining dams.
Several videos from Asheville, North Carolina — which you can see in the video player above — show entire communities submerged in water, with only street lights and upper floors of buildings visible amid the flooding.
Floodwaters pushed by the remnants of Hurricane Helene left North Carolina’s largest mountain city isolated Saturday by damaged roads and a lack of power and cellphone service.
“Oh, we are hanging in there and trying to get over the shock of what’s happened in Asheville. But doing all right, just recovering,” said Laura Reiley, an employee at the Moxy Hotel in Asheville.
The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency released a video showing destruction and flooding across the Northeast region of the state, and urging anyone who could to donate to the East Tennessee Foundation to aid survivors.
Video of a drive through Watauga County, North Carolina, shows streets littered with downed trees and power lines.
Those trapped after the storm are urged by authorities to “not self-deploy without coordination with local officials.”
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
