FILE – Teresa Elder walks through a flooded Sandy Cove Drive from Hurricane Helene on Sept. 27, 2024, in Morganton, N.C.AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek, File

Helene and another storm dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain

The Southeast was drenched with enough water to fill the Dallas Cowboys' stadium 51,000 times

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