The rundown: Social media users have posted pictures showing the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene, the storm that has flooded and destroyed roads and buildings across Florida and Appalachia. See the dramatic before and after photos here.
Why it matters: After making landfall in Florida, where tidal storm surges battered buildings, it then traveled north, hitting Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee, as well as impacting parts of Virginia, West Virginia, Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky. At least 95 people have been killed by the storm, according to The Associated Press. The storm made landfall in Florida's Big Bend region as a powerful Category 4 hurricane with catastrophic 140-mile-per-hour winds and torrential rain. Footage showed houses swept away by the ocean. In North Carolina, heavy rains caused severe flooding and mudslides in the western part of the state, among other destruction.
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