Helene made landfall on Florida’s northwest coast late Thursday after strengthening into a Category 4 storm hours earlier.
Helene became a tropical storm Tuesday in the western Caribbean Sea and became a hurricane Wednesday.made landfall in northwestern Florida as a Category 4 storm as forecasters warned that the enormous system could create a “nightmare” storm surge and bring dangerous winds and rain across much of the southeastern U.S. There were at least three storm-related deaths.around 11:10 p.m. Thursday near the mouth of the Aucilla River in the Big Bend area of Florida’s Gulf Coast.
“Helene continues to produce catastrophic winds that are now pushing into southern Georgia,” the hurricane center said in an update at 1 a.m. Friday. “Persons should not leave their shelters and remain in place through the passage of these life-threatening conditions.” The storm made landfall in the sparsely-populated Big Bend area, home to fishing villages and vacation hideaways where Florida’s Panhandle and peninsula meet.
“This is the first time we’ve actually come to a shelter, because of the complexities of the storm and the uncertainties,” she said. “You live down here, you run the risk of losing everything to a bad storm,” said Anthony Godwin, who lives about a half-mile from the water in the coastal town of Panacea, as he stopped for gas before heading west toward his sister’s house in Pensacola.
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