Deadly hurricane Helene affects students home life
By Linda I.
In September of 2024, Hurricane Helene significantly affected students' home lives particularly on the east coast with South Carolina being one of the main states hit. The storm caused a lot of property damages, interruptions to education, and more. This made students not able to go to school and miss out on their education.
The hurricane has caused many problems to thousands of people in six states, this is also stated by the University of South Carolina. It has caused students and families to be left without any power for days. This has caused students to rely on doing all of their work at school. The hurricane has even caused many deaths, even in South Carolina.
Students from AHS weren’t able to do complete their daily/weekly necessities because of power being cut off, Wi-Fi being shut down for days at a time such as the fact they couldn’t wash clothes or complete any online work, etc things they need to do for school that could possibly impact their grades especially since at airport students had to complete work to be marked present and some students couldn’t do it due to electricity.
The most significant impact on students is that they and their families had to possibly throw away their food because of the power being off for days at some houses and neighborhoods.
One student at AHS, who has decided to remain anonymous but has had an experience from the hurricane, explains, “ It’s been a week since the hurricane, [and] I still have no Wi-Fi and these teachers are still giving us online work.” This student is trying to imply that the hurricane is still affecting people, even though it already passed and has been almost two weeks. The same anonymous student at AHS says, “After the hurricane I went to the supermarket to get food and the whole freezer section--well, everything that had to be cold was gone.” This is just showing that a lot of food was wasted and had to get thrown out by workers and families.
“Nothing really happened to my house, my power only went out for like four hours,” another student explains. This is really describing how for everyone it was different, some people didn’t have any problems and some families had deaths. It was all a different experience for people.
Some people think the hurricane was a horrible experience and was harmful since there was flooding and houses getting hit by trees Electricity being down for days and more. Other people think that hurricane wasn’t that bad since it didn’t really hit where they lived. For some people that did get it but didn’t get it bad. Also feels that way because they just got rain and wind.
More than 215 people died across the south east and at least 46 people in South Carolina due to the hurricane. On CBS NEWS, an article states that in South Carolina a couple was killed by a tree that had landed in their bedroom and were found hugging while being deceased. From Columbia to Spartanburg to Aiken Morrisville, more homes were destroyed and more people were left without power, more people died. It was stated by The Post and Courier that by 5 AM on September 27th Helene was still packing 70 mph winds as it moved into South Carolina. On Education Week it was stated that more than 700,000 people in the Carolinas had no power days after the storm.
To find out more information about hurricane Helene check out CBS news, CBS news, the Post and Courier, University of South Carolina, and Education Week.
You can also track various hurricanes, including Milton, which just decimated Florida, by going to the National Hurricane Center.