Stunning images captured the moment severe flooding caused by Hurricane Helene swept away a Tennessee man’s home.
Owner Jeffrey Fuller livestreamed the hurricane that devastated his property on Facebook.
The video showed waist-deep water rushing through the house, with Fuller shouting over the stream that the storm “came fast… let’s go to the attic.”
It comes as the death toll from Hurricane Helene rose to at least 55 on Saturday, after the weather system left a trail of destruction stretching from Florida to the Carolinas.
Stunning images captured the moment severe flooding caused by Hurricane Helene swept away the home of Tennessee resident Jeffrey Fuller.
Fuller livestreamed how his home was destroyed by the flood, as he could be heard shouting over the stream that the storm “came fast… let’s go to the attic.”
The weather system left a trail of destruction that stretched from Horseshoe Beach in Florida (pictured) to the Carolinas, killing at least 55 people.
In Tennessee, where Fuller’s footage was filmed, torrential rains caused by Helene caused the Nolichucky Dam to burst.
Stunning images of the dam failure showed it bursting with more than 30,000 cubic feet of water per second, the equivalent of an Olympic-size swimming pool of water gushing through the small dam every three seconds.
Although Tennessee avoided some of the worst wind gusts that tore through Florida and Georgia, Helene slowed over the state and pummeled it with heavy rain.
As Helene continues to slow, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) predicted Saturday that the storm would weaken “today through tomorrow” over the Tennessee Valley.
The NHC marked the end of the natural disaster on Saturday when it announced it would stop posting hourly updates on Helene, as it had done since the hurricane made landfall on Thursday.
Pictured: The Nolichucky Dam in East Tennessee. The dam burst with 30,000 cubic feet of water per second about a day ago.
Stunning images of the dam failure showed it bursting after being inundated by Hurricane Helene.
Homes and businesses were destroyed across Florida’s Big Bend region (pictured) after Helene made landfall Thursday night.
As of Saturday morning, Hurricane Helene was responsible for at least 55 reported deaths in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia.
In South Carolina, where a total of 19 people lost their lives due to the storm, two firefighters were among the dead.
George Satcher, 53, and Landon Bodie, who was just 18, were responding to a call Friday morning and were killed when a tree fell on their fire truck, News19 reported.
“That’s a reminder that these first responders risk their lives every day to go out and protect the citizens they serve,” said David Jones of the South Carolina Highway Patrol.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced that at least 11 people had died in the Sunshine State, including several drownings in coastal Pinellas County.
In Georgia, authorities say the death toll has risen to 15, with two people dying after being swept away by a tornado in Alamo, while North Carolina reported six more deaths. Among them was a four-year-old girl who died in a car accident caused by the storm.
Survivors Tammy Bryan, left, hug fellow resident Jennifer Lange amid the destruction following Hurricane Helene in Horseshoe Beach on Saturday, Sept. 28.
Matthew Harris leans on the bed of his truck after Hurricane Helene destroyed the home where he lived in Steinhatchee, Florida.
Wrecked boats washed ashore in St. Petersburg, Florida, seen Saturday morning
The images of the consequences in Florida seemed apocalyptic
Hurricane Helene made landfall in the dark Thursday night, leaving millions of Americans to wake up Friday morning to widespread destruction.
The Big Bend region of Florida was among the hardest hit, and images of the aftermath look apocalyptic.
More destruction was seen on Treasure Island, near Tampa, where dozens of wrecked boats littered the streets.
Treasure Island has an elevation of 3 feet above sea level, which was no match for the roughly 7-foot storm surge seen in the Tampa Bay area.
Horseshoe Beach, a northern town that was much closer to where Helene landed, saw homes and businesses reduced to rubble.
Despite urgent calls from officials to evacuate in the days and hours before, some residents remained in the path of the storm, and traumatized citizens were seen crying as they saw entire blocks irradiated by the storm, leaving nothing but planks of debris. wood and other debris.
Michael Bobbitt, 48, was one of those who decided to stay behind.
“We feel pretty beat up here in Cedar Key. When we were fighting this at night, as bad as we thought it would be, it’s much worse in daylight.
“Cedar Key, as we know it, is completely gone,” he told the New York Times.
‘Entire houses have been collected and evacuated. We had to wade through four feet of water to get to them. The post office is destroyed.’
