By The Associated Press Desperate residents of the storm-battered mountains of western North Carolina lined up for water and food, hunted for cellphone signals and slogged buckets from creeks to flush toilets days after Hurricane Helene’s remnants deluged the region. Emergency workers toiled around the clock to clear roads, restore power and phone service, and reach people stranded by the storm, which killed at least 133 people across the Southeast, a toll expected to rise. President Joe Biden was set to survey the devastation Wednesday. Related Articles National News | NHC tracks 3 systems with chances of development on top of Hurricane Isaac, Tropical Storm Joyce National News | At least 64 dead and millions without power after Helene’s deadly march across the Southeast National News | Hurricane Helene enters Gulf, forecast to hit Florida as major hurricane with 20-foot storm surge National News | A huge Hurricane Helene is expected to hit Florida as a major storm and strike far inland National News | Louisiana residents brace as Tropical Storm Francine is expected to hit their coast as a hurricane Follow AP’s coverage of tropical weather at https://apnews.com/hub/weather. Here’s the latest: Helene and other storms dumped a whopping 40 trillion gallons of rain on the South More than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed in ahead of it — an unheard of amount of water that has stunned experts. That’s enough to fill the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium 51,000 times, or Lake Tahoe just once.