Cleaning up after a hurricane or other storm is exhausting but necessary. If you're doing it yourself, here are a few tips to make it a bit easier.

Only 2 percent of households in flooded parts of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina can get insurance payments.

Hurricane Helene flooded properties and devastated buildings in recent days as it tore across a vast stretch from Florida to Tennessee. Over the coming days and weeks, households will start to rebuild -- and the costs will be enormous.