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A view of storm damage at Chez What on Sept. 28 in Valdosta, Ga. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images) (Getty Images) Photos from across the region show the devastation left by Helene.
Hurricane Helene hit Florida's Big Bend as a powerful Category 4 storm with 140 mph winds. At least 3 million homes in 5 states lost power during the storm, which has weakened to a Category 1.
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — It has been just over 24 hours since Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida, bringing devastating storm damage to Tampa Bay.
Before and after satellite images show Hurricane Helene's destruction across Florida's coastline when it made landfall on Thursday as a Category 4 storm.
A man crosses a storm surge flooded area on the coast of Gulfport, Fla. on Sept. 26, 2024. Credit - Thomas Simonetti—The Washington Post/Getty Images
Georgia was severely impacted by Hurricane Helene during late September 2024, causing over 34 reported deaths and significant rainfall across the state. After making landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida on September 27, the hurricane began to traverse over land across Georgia as a Category 2 hurricane prior to tracking into the Appalachian mountain range as a tropical storm.
The damage wrought by Hurricane Helene was especially extensive in western North Carolina, a region far from the Florida coast where the system made landfall as a Category 4 storm.
A man crosses a storm surge flooded area on the coast of Gulfport, Florida, as Hurricane Helene passed through the Gulf of Mexico to the west on Sept. 26, 2024. / Credit: Thomas Simonetti for The ...