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he need for power and water grew more urgent Thursday for hundreds of thousands of residents across the Southeast a week after Helene began a deadly, devastating march as a historic Category 4 hurricane slamming onto Florida's Gulf Coast. Almost 1 million homes and businesses remained without power in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Tens of thousands residents, most in Western North Carolina, remained without running water. The death toll related directly or indirectly to Helene grew to more than 184, and it was expected the number could rise as search and rescue efforts continued. That includes 91 who died in North Carolina, 36 in South Carolina, 25 in Georgia, 19 in Florida, 11 in Tennessee and two in Virginia, a USA TODAY Network analysis found.