Helene struck Florida’s Big Bend as a powerful category 4 hurricane late Thursday night and moved north into Georgia during the early morning hours. The size and strength of the storm brought strong winds,

A hurricane made landfall in northwestern Florida as a Category 4 storm as forecasters warned the enormous system could create a “nightmare” storm surge and bring dangerous winds and rain across much of the southeast.

Helene made landfall late on Thursday in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 Hurricane. It weakened Friday morning to a tropical storm with sustained winds of 70 mph.

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