Massive Hurricane Helene crashed into Florida’s sparsely populated Big Bend region, bringing storm surge and high winds across the state’s Gulf Coast communities before ripping into southern Georgia.
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The storm will continue to weaken as it continues to move north across Georgia. At 8 a.m., Helene was centered about 35 miles south-southwest of Clemson, South Carolina, and about 80 miles east-northeast of Atlanta, moving north at 30 mph , the hurricane center in Miami reported. Early Friday, sheriff's officials in Hillsborough County, where Tampa is located, were using a large ATV to rescue people who were stranded by rising waters.
"It actually blew out the storm panels on the front doors. Blew out one of the breakaway walls on the back and two entry doors,” the agency posted online. “It appears that we had about 6 feet or better of water inside.”Much like the way a storm’s sustained winds do not include the potential for even stronger gusts, storm surge doesn’t include the wave height above the mean water level.
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