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00:00It's been days since the storm front hit this seaside town in Florida, and residents have
00:05returned to find the canal littered with debris, 90 per cent of homes seriously destroyed,
00:11and in some cases, gone completely.
00:14This was where our home was.
00:16This was where we lived full time, right there.
00:19It was a big two storey blue and white house.
00:23With gusts measured at 225 kilometres per hour, the hurricane blew everything away.
00:30It is the third since last summer in Florida's Big Bend, and many residents now have incomplete
00:35insurance policies, or no protection at all.
00:39Couldn't afford it.
00:41I don't know what I'm going to do.
00:43I can't rebuild.
00:44I don't have the money.
00:46Maybe clean this up and put a camper, but you know, I don't know, I hadn't even really
00:51thought about it.
00:52Never thought this would happen.
00:53The tempest caused widespread destruction across the southeast United States, killing
00:58scores of people, leaving millions without power, and prompting a major search and rescue
01:03operation that is still ongoing.
01:06Atlanta Georgia experienced more rain over 48 hours than it has seen since record keeping
01:11began in 1878, and in North Carolina, authorities described it as the worst flooding in a century.
01:19Here in Asheville, this nurse recounts the moment she was pulled from a vehicle as water
01:23raged around her.
01:25That scared me because I'm like, okay, chick, what do you do now?
01:28You know, I didn't know what to do, but then about that time the officer knocked on the
01:32window and said, come on, I'm here to get you out of there.
01:36According to Moody's financial analysis, the damage caused by Hurricane Helene could cost
01:41between $15 and $26 billion.