Receding floodwaters began to reveal the extent of damage from Hurricane Helene as states across the Southeast begin to focus on repairs to critical infrastructure. 

Major highways remained closed Sept. 30 between Tennessee and North Carolina, where floodwaters have washed away bridges, landslides have blocked key roadways and floodwaters have piled debris on roads. Nearly 2 million people across seven Southern states were still without power Monday as utilities continued efforts to assess damages to transmission and generation infrastructure, forecasting several more days of darkness for the areas that were hardest hit, including the city of Asheville, N.C.