Tens of hundreds of North Carolina residents remained with out working water on Wednesday, six days after Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida and carved a damaging path by means of a lot of the U.S. Southeast, killing greater than 160 folks.
The highly effective storm inundated the western a part of the state with catastrophic flooding, destroying pipes, damaging water vegetation and chopping off energy.
One-fifth of the 1 million residents within the western half of North Carolina both had no water in any respect or low system strain on Wednesday, based on a web based state database.