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Helene Hectic Aftermath

Damage from Tropical Storm Helene on Presbyterian College’s campus on Oct. 1, 2024. The storm took out 39 trees on campus but caused limited damage to buildings.
Gavin Jackson
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Damage from Tropical Storm Helene on Presbyterian College’s campus on Oct. 1, 2024. The storm took out 39 trees on campus but caused limited damage to buildings.

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for October 5, 2024: a look at response and recovery efforts in South Carolina to Tropical Storm Helene, which rolled through the state early last Friday, causing more than 41 deaths, damaging over 3,500 homes, and plunging 1.3 million residents into darkness—which, as of our taping, still includes 270,000 outages.

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Gavin Jackson graduated with a visual journalism degree from Kent State University in 2008 and has been in the news industry ever since. He has worked at newspapers in Ohio, Louisiana and most recently in South Carolina at the Florence Morning News and Charleston Post and Courier.