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Days after Hurricane O'Lean arrived as a Washington, I'm Jack Spear.

Days after Hurricane O'Lene arrived as a strong category four storm in the Florida panhandle

some of the worst damage is well to the north, in the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Georgia.

Nearly 2 million homes and businesses are still without power this morning.

The death toll from the storm has risen to more than 120 people over six states.

Well, Kewat lives in

Asheville, North Carolina, he says basic services are still

mostly out.

We just got cell phone service back last night

at around 11 o'clock.

So we were at a cell phone service for about two days.

But I mean, you know, we were you can't get gas right now.

So if you can't go anywhere, you can't call anybody,

even for the people stranded.

You know, it's it's a very essential thing that we need to have or

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