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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 storm weakened to a Category One on Friday but continued to sweep its way across Georgia, NBC News reported. Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida on Thursday as a Category 4 hurricane.
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.
Helene caused major damage to Georgia's poultry farms, causing damage or total destruction to 107 facilities. [203] Georgia and surrounding regions produce almost half of the 9 billion chickens consumed annually across the United States, and manure runoff from the damaged facilities raised alarms about the quality of streams and groundwater. [203]
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.
Key takeaways:•Life-threatening, damaging and disruptive impacts from Helene are underway across the interior Southeast, following the storm's landfall southwest of Perry, Florida, on Thursday ...
How to report Hurricane Helene damage in Macon. 11 deaths in Georgia. Jeremy Chisenhall, Jesse Fraga, Lucinda Warnke. September 27, 2024 at 4:17 AM. ... 15 a.m. - There have been two storm-related ...
From reporter Miguel Legoas: According to USA Today's live "OFF THE GRID" tracker, Georgia has seen 15,323 outages within the last 72 hours as of 9:15 a.m. Currently the county with the highest ...