Hurricane Helene's death toll reached 200 on Thursday and could rise higher still, as searchers made their way toward the hardest to reach places in the mountains of western North Carolina, where the storm washed out roads and knocked out electricity, water and cellular service.
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00:30Unfortunately, we have up to 33 fatalities in the state of Georgia right now and close
00:52to 200 impacted in total by the storm.
00:56Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to the families of those that have just experienced
01:03this heartbreak and this tragedy to the communities that's affected.
01:08And this is unprecedented that we're dealing with.
01:11Previously, the worst storm Georgia power had ever dealt with.
01:14They had 1700 poles that needed to be replaced.
01:17Currently, there are over 8000 that have to be replaced.
01:22So this is just a significantly larger power outage storm that we've ever dealt with in
01:28the history of our state.