David Jones navigated ‘tangled mess’ of flooding and debris in trek to Tennessee after hurricane ravaged south-east

A US man has made his case for all pending father of the year contests after reportedly walking 30 miles (48km) through flooding and debris inflicted by Hurricane Helene to walk his daughter down the aisle at her wedding in Tennessee.

David Jones’s determined trek took him through some of the areas most devastated by Helene after the powerful category 4 hurricane made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region and crossed much of the south-eastern US.