• Hurricane Helene caused historic flooding and destruction across the southern Appalachians one year ago. • The storm was responsible for more than 250 deaths, with at least 108 fatalities in North Carolina alone. • Helene made landfall in Florida's Big Bend as a Category 4 hurricane before weakening and causing record rainfall inland. • Recovery efforts are still ongoing in affected regions, with some sites only recently reopening to the public.

It’s been a year since meteorologists first spotted the system that would become Hurricane Helene , a storm that strengthened into a major hurricane, made historic landfall in Florida’s Big Bend and unleashed record rainfall and flooding across the southern Appalachians, leaving a trail of destruction from North Carolina to Georgia.

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