A university soccer staff was stranded on buses in the midst of a flooded interstate in North Carolina on Friday night time, as Hurricane Helene continued to deliver flash flooding throughout a number of southeastern states.Â
The staff, East Tennessee State College (ETSU), was on its technique to a sport in Charlston to play The Citadel. However the staff’s buses solely made it so far as Exit 44 on I-26 once they hit floodwaters and have been pressured to cease on the shoulder.Â
“We’ve got been stranded on our buses exterior of Asheville since 11AM right now 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 anyplace close to. We have not had cell service all day and it is nonetheless down all through the realm.”Â
The staff’s head coach, Tre Lamb, mentioned the staff was lastly capable of get out of the “flood entice” after 14 hours.Â
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The East Tennessee State College soccer staff was stranded in flooding brought on by Hurricane Helene for 14 hours. (Tre Lamb/@CoachTreLamb9)
“It received very scary on some low floor for a couple of hours, we needed to discover excessive floor. Shoutout to our bus drivers, athletic trainers, employees, officers for retaining 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 that they had no entry to any info.Â
“Have but to talk with households or family members however we’re on the way in which and able to play @Citadel1842 every time they determine,” Lamb wrote. “Prayers for all affected. What an terrible storm we noticed first hand. A lot of stranded households.”
Hurricane Helene has already resulted within the postponement or cancelation of multiple different faculty 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 in opposition to Samford, whereas Appalachian State canceled its scheduled sport in opposition to 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 rapidly flooded streets round St. Pete Seaside on Thursday night, with excessive tide a number of hours away.
The hurricane made landfall in Florida’s Huge 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 Pictures)
The Nationwide Climate Service in Tallahassee issued a uncommon excessive wind warning for a number of counties within the Huge Bend forward of the method of the eyewall.
The storm resulted in no less than 40 deaths and is anticipated to trigger $15 billion to $26 billion in property injury.
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