(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.
Supplies, emergency workers rush to North Carolina as Southeast digs out from Helene’s deadly march
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.