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Maps show the areas impacted by storm surge, rainfall levels and more as Helene, once a major hurricane and now a tropical storm, moves inland from Florida's Gulf Coast over Georgia.
Helene made landfall at about 11:10 p.m. ET near Perry, Florida, on Thursday with 140-mph winds, making it the first known Category 4 storm to hit the state's Big Bend region since records began ...
As of 6:45 p.m. ET, 620,313 customers in Georgia are without power, making it the state with the second most power outages caused by the storm, according to PowerOutage.US.
Extensive damage occurred across the county due to high winds and falling trees. A weather station near the Florida-Georgia border recorded a maximum gust to 96 mph (154 km/h), and another station in Valdosta recorded a gust to 83 mph (134 km/h). [60] Strong winds heavily damaged at least 115 buildings in Valdosta. [61]
As of Wednesday evening, more than 42 million people in Florida, Georgia and Alabama were under hurricane and tropical storm warnings, the National Weather Service said.
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]
Helene slammed into Florida as a Category 4 hurricane at about 11.10pm ET on Thursday night, before weakening to a Category 1 storm as it charted a path into Georgia with maximum sustained winds ...
The National Weather Service Office in Atlanta said on Wednesday that flash flooding could be of concern in north and central Georgia with 4-10 inches of rain forecasted.