Even when a life-threatening hurricane is headed your way, there are many reasons why you might stay put. You might have dependent family members who can’t leave due to disabilities or other health-related reasons; you might not have reliable transportation to get to a safer area, and what’s more, no gas to get there. Sometimes,…
As the Hurricane Helene-driven waters rose around the Nolichucky River in Tennessee, Boone McCrary, his girlfriend and his chocolate lab headed out on his fishing boat to search for a man who was stranded by floodwaters that had leveled his home. But the thick debris in the water jammed the boat’s motor, and without power,…
Mark Starling, the morning show host and news director for iHeart Media-Asheville on News Radio 570 WWNC, has been on the air since 3:30 a.m. today, trying to keep local residents informed and calm after Hurricane Helene devastated the western North Carolina city of Asheville. But as a resident himself who lost neighbors in the…
An enormous tropical storm named Helene, now a Category 1 hurricane, is churning across the Caribbean near Cuba and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Forecasters predict the hurricane — which as of Wednesday morning has maximum sustained winds of 80 miles per hour — will rapidly intensify in the next 24 hours before ramming into western Florida…
