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Governor Roy Cooper has announced a staggering $53 billion in estimated damages from Hurricane Helene, marking it as the deadliest and most economically devastating natural disaster in North Carolina's history.
The mountain county was among the hardest hit by Helene.
“This is so much worse than we could have imagined.”
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