At least 64 dead after Helene's deadly march across the Southeast

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00:00It's been days since the storm front hit this seaside town in Florida, and residents have

00:05returned to find the canal littered with debris, 90 per cent of homes seriously destroyed,

00:11and in some cases, gone completely.

00:14This was where our home was.

00:16This was where we lived full time, right there.

00:19It was a big two storey blue and white house.

00:23With gusts measured at 225 kilometres per hour, the hurricane blew everything away.

00:30It is the third since last summer in Florida's Big Bend, and many residents now have incomplete

00:35insurance policies, or no protection at all.

00:39Couldn't afford it.

00:41I don't know what I'm going to do.

00:43I can't rebuild.

00:44I don't have the money.

00:46Maybe clean this up and put a camper, but you know, I don't know, I hadn't even really

00:51thought about it.

00:52Never thought this would happen.

00:53The tempest caused widespread destruction across the southeast United States, killing

00:58scores of people, leaving millions without power, and prompting a major search and rescue

01:03operation that is still ongoing.

01:06Atlanta Georgia experienced more rain over 48 hours than it has seen since record keeping

01:11began in 1878, and in North Carolina, authorities described it as the worst flooding in a century.

01:19Here in Asheville, this nurse recounts the moment she was pulled from a vehicle as water

01:23raged around her.

01:25That scared me because I'm like, okay, chick, what do you do now?

01:28You know, I didn't know what to do, but then about that time the officer knocked on the

01:32window and said, come on, I'm here to get you out of there.

01:36According to Moody's financial analysis, the damage caused by Hurricane Helene could cost

01:41between $15 and $26 billion.

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