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Editor's Note: For the latest news on Helene, see our live coverage for Saturday, Sept. 28. Helene made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane about 11:10 p.m. ET near Perry, Florida, with 140 mph ...
The storm was a major hurricane when it made landfall near Perry, Florida, at 11:10 p.m. Eastern Time Thursday with maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per hour.
Helene made landfall at about 11:10 p.m. ET near Perry, Florida. Hours later, the system weakened to a Category 1 storm and continued to produce hurricane-force winds as it moved toward Georgia.
Perry is a city and the county seat of Taylor County, Florida, United States.As of 2020, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 6,898. [4] The city was named for Madison Perry, fourth governor of the state of Florida and a Confederate colonel during the American Civil War.
According to local historians, Dekle Beach was acquired and developed by Perry, Florida businessman and politician Gus J. Dekle sometime in the mid-1940s. Dekle was the owner of Dekle Motor Company, a local Chevrolet dealership, as well as a previous member of the City Council of Perry and a member of the Florida House of Representatives during the 1940s and 1950s.
Taylor County is a county located in the Big Bend region in the northern part of the U.S. state of Florida.As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,796. [1] Its county seat is Perry. [2]
When Hurricane Helene battered Florida’s Gulf Coast this week, one of the hardest-hit areas was the small town of Steinhatchee, which was overwhelmed by a 10-foot storm surge and 140 mph winds ...
Benson died at Taylor Correctional Institution in Perry, Florida of a stab wound to the right side of the head with a homemade knife on July 3, 2015. [8] [9] Benson was in a long running feud with Cordell Washington, another inmate at the facility. The feud went back to at least 2012 after a series of assaults by Washington.