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Less than two weeks ago, on September 26, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a category for hurricane.

It's hurricane season, obviously, but the intensity with which the storm accumulated power

has destroyed communities far from the shore.

Helene plowed through as far north. destroyed communities far from the shore.

Helene plowed through as far north as the Blue Ridge Mountains and left communities

like Asheville, North Carolina, way inland in the wake of destruction.

According to ABC News, the death toll in Asheville now stands at 230 people all the way,

hundreds of miles.

Actually, I should look up the exact distance but it's you know it's

in the foothills of the mountains in the western part of the state this community

notably one that residents thought was a climate haven

exempt from the most devastating impacts of climate change.

And now Hurricane Milton is expected

to make landfall in Florida tomorrow also as a category four storm. Here's

Miami meteorologist John Morelli's from NBC six South Florida. He's a long time

meteorologist who got emotional as you'll hear when

reporting on the incoming storm. It's an incredible incredible

incredible hurricane. It has dropped. It has dropped 50 millibars in 10 hours. I apologize. This is just horrific.

When maximum sustained winds are 160 miles per hour and it is just gaining strength in the Gulf of Mexico where you can imagine the winds, I mean the seas are just so incredibly

incredibly hot a record hot as you might imagine you know what's driving that I

don't need to tell you global warming climate change

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