FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell tells PEOPLE Helene was “a unique storm,” that brought “different types of threats” to different areas across the U.S. South

More than 150 deaths have been confirmed in the days since Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm, including dozens in flood-stricken North Carolina. “Communities were wiped off the map,

Hurricane Helene has laid waste to the southeastern United States. Its sheer wind force and deadly floods left behind a path of destruction stretching over 500 miles from Florida to the Southern Appalachians.

More than 100 people are dead with hundreds more unaccounted for after Hurricane Helene tore a path of destruction through the American southeast. Asheville, N.C., was especially hard hit and described as a ‘post-apocalyptic scene’ where supplies are scarce.

Hurricane Helene has left officials in five Southeastern states grappling to respond to the widespread destruction it caused after hitting Florida as a Category 4 storm last week, with the death toll now entering the triple digits.

The death toll from Hurricane Helene continues to rise after the storm led to damage and flooding in multiple states in the southeast US.