(1 Oct 2024)
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Augusta, Georgia – 01 October 2024
1. Close of boxes of food being prepped
2. Med of people distributing food and boxes at a water and food distribution point
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristie Nelson, resident:
"Without the air conditioning, I mean, it’s a lot hotter in the house than it typically would be."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristie Nelson, resident:
"I’m just dying for a hot shower right now. And I mean, that’s that’s that’s rough."
5. Med of people setting up food and boxes at a water and food distribution point
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristie Nelson, resident:
"It’s like we haven’t got a definite date when our electricity because we keep getting a tentative date. I think the first day we were it was like, what is 16th. We’ve heard 12th, we’ve heard the fifth. So we don’t know exactly when we’re going to get it back."
7. Med of Andy Brown using a chain saw to remove trees that have blocked his car
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Sherry Brown, resident:
"It’s awful and we hadn’t even been able to get out of our driveway. Our car is blocked in behind the tree."
9. Med of Andy Brown using a chain saw to remove trees that have blocked his car
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sherry Brown, resident:
"God could have made things a whole lot worse. But God is… God’s pulling us through it. I still have faith. And I feel I feel good. I mean, you know, it happened. We gotta, we gotta deal with it and move on."
11. Various of Andy Brown using chain saw to remove trees
STORYLINE:
Massive rains brought by Hurricane Helene have left many people stranded or homeless as the cleanup begins.
In Augusta, Georgia, a line wrapped around a massive shopping center, past the shutterd Waffle House and at least a half mile down the road to get water Tuesday.
At 11 a.m. it still hadn’t moved. Kristie Nelson arrived with her daughter three hours earlier. it was a muggy morning for October but they had their windows down and the car turned off because gas is a precious, hard-to-find commody too.
"It’s been rough," said Nelson, who still hasn’t gotten a firm date from the power company for her electricity to be restored. "I’m just dying for a hot shower."
Augusta and Richmond County have five centers for water set up for it’s more than 200,000 people. The city hasn’t provided specifics on the durations of outages for both water and power.
All around the city, trees are snapped in half and power poles are leaning. Traffic lights are out _ and some are just gone from the hurricane force winds that hit in the dark early Friday morning from Hurricane Helene.
There are similar stories of levels trees and shattered lives that follow Helene’s inland path from Valdosta, Georgia, to Augusta to Greenville and Spartanburg, South Carolina and into the North Carolina mountains.
Some 1.4 million people across the three states remain without electricity around noon Tuesday, according to power outage.us.
"It’s been hard ," said David Reese who was probably looking at spending his entire day in a line for water, then for gas. "We appreciate the people that have came out to the city to help out. I don’t know what would be without them."
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