A school soccer crew was stranded on buses in the midst of a flooded interstate in North Carolina on Friday evening, as Hurricane Helene continued to deliver flash flooding throughout a number of southeastern states.
The crew, East Tennessee State College (ETSU), was on its method to a recreation in Charlston to play The Citadel. However the crew’s buses solely made it so far as Exit 44 on I-26 after they hit floodwaters and have been compelled to cease on the shoulder.
“We’ve been stranded on our buses outdoors of Asheville since 11AM at the moment due to the flooding. We have been headed to Charleston to play The Citadel tomorrow at 2PM, however are caught and sleeping on the buses tonight within the parking zone,” ETSU quarterback coach Tyler Dell mentioned in a textual content message to OutKick’s Clay Travis. “…No inns with capability or energy and no meals wherever close to. We’ve not had cell service all day and it is nonetheless down all through the world.”
The crew’s head coach, Tre Lamb, mentioned the crew was lastly capable of get out of the “flood lure” after 14 hours.
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The East Tennessee State College soccer crew was stranded in flooding brought on by Hurricane Helene for 14 hours. (Tre Lamb/@CoachTreLamb9)
“It bought very scary on some low floor for a number of hours, we needed to discover excessive floor. Shoutout to our bus drivers, athletic trainers, employees, officers for conserving everybody calm,” he wrote in a publish on X.
Lamb mentioned a random stranger gave the coaches a journey to shelter and later allow them to know the freeway was open. He mentioned they’d no entry to any info.
“Have but to talk with households or family members however we’re on the best way and able to play @Citadel1842 each time they resolve,” Lamb wrote. “Prayers for all affected. What an terrible storm we noticed first hand. A number of stranded households.”
Hurricane Helene has already resulted within the postponement or cancelation of multiple different school soccer video games this weekend. The storm was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone.
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The East Tennessee State College needed to sleep on their busses in a single day as a result of the freeway was flooded. (Tre Lamb/@CoachTreLamb9)
Furman College postponed its conflict towards Samford, whereas Appalachian State canceled its scheduled recreation towards Liberty, and has indicated this system didn’t intend to reschedule the sport.
Flooding has been one of many greatest harmful forces of the hurricane, starting alongside Florida’s coast properly earlier than Hurricane Helene made landfall, with quickly rising waters reported as far south as Fort Myers on the state’s Gulf Coast. FOX Climate’s Ian Oliver mentioned the surge shortly flooded streets round St. Pete Seaside on Thursday night, with excessive tide a number of hours away.
The hurricane made landfall in Florida’s Large Bend area, after intensifying right into a catastrophic Class 4 hurricane with winds of 140 mph. The monster hurricane unleashed a probably “unsurvivable” 20-foot storm surge, catastrophic hurricane-force winds and flooding.
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FILE -Residents fill sandbags at Helen Howarth Park forward of the potential arrival of Hurricane Helene on September 25, 2024 in Pinellas Park, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Photographs)
The Nationwide Climate Service in Tallahassee issued a uncommon excessive wind warning for a number of counties within the Large Bend forward of the strategy of the eyewall.
The storm resulted in at the least 40 deaths and is predicted to trigger $15 billion to $26 billion in property injury.
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