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North Carolina residents support each other in old-fashioned ways after Helene cuts power, phones

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Summary
Nutrition label

77% Informative

Residents in western North Carolina relying on old-fashioned ways of communicating.

More than 1.1 million customers still had no power Wednesday in the Carolinas and Georgia .

Death toll from Hurricane Helene has reached 179 , including 179 in six states.

Vice President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to the disaster areas in Florida and Georgia on Thursday .

Floodwaters swept away 11 workers at a plastics factory in Tennessee last week .

Tennessee state authorities are investigating the company that owns the plant.

It may be weeks before water is fully restored in Asheville , North Carolina .

Thousands of feet of pipe from one reservoir were washed out and will have to be rebuilt.

VR Score

78

Informative language

77

Neutral language

65

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

53

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

Source diversity

1

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