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Central Florida braces for wind, rain from ‘monster storm’ Helene
Residents in Central Florida filled sandbags and loaded shopping carts with batteries and canned goods Wednesday in preparation for gusty winds and heavy downpours across the region Thursday from...
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Hurricane Helene surges to major Category 4 storm, forecast for...
Hurricane Helene intensified into a major Category 4 hurricane on Thursday and the National Hurricane Center predicted it would bring devastation to Florida’s Big Bend region. “A catastrophic and...
View ArticleHurricane Helene causing deteriorating weather conditions
Central Florida is feeling the effects of Hurricane Helene. There is a Tornado Watch and a Tropical Storm warning in effect for all of east Central Florida, according to NWS Melbourne. It will be windy...
View ArticleHurricane Helene: Windy day with strong gusts, possible tornados in Central...
Central Florida faced high winds Thursday — with gusts reaching up to 50 mph by midafternoon — as Hurricane Helene powered its way north across the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall in the...
View ArticleTallahassee may avoid worst of Helene, DeSantis says, but statewide impact...
The increasingly powerful Hurricane Helene may not strike Tallahassee directly, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday morning, but the storm will likely still cause major damage to the capital region and...
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Pictures: Florida feels Hurricane Helene impact
Charles Starling, a lineman with Team Fishel, is pelted with rain as he walks by a row of electrical line trucks staged in a field in The Villages on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. Thousands of the trucks...
View ArticleHurricane Helene: Tornado warnings hit Central Florida, under watch until 8 p.m.
Central Florida has already seen a few tornado warnings Thursday as the region and much of the Florida peninsula remains under a tornado watch until 8 p.m. as Hurricane Helene’s far-reaching bands...
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Downtown Orlando’s inflatable pigeons ‘hunkered’ for Helene
Downtown Orlando’s inflatable pigeons, which are perched atop buildings as part of a public art project, have decided not to fly the coop, even amid winds and rain caused by Hurricane Helene. The...
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‘This storm has rattled a lot of people’: Tallahassee braces for Hurricane...
TALLAHASSEE — As a potentially catastrophic Hurricane Helene churned its way north, residents of the state’s capital hit the few remaining stores and restaurants still open Thursday — or took solace in...
View ArticleJim Cantore watch: Wherever he is, you need to move in the opposite...
Jim Cantore is kind of like death and taxes when it comes to a hurricane — inevitable. The Weather Channel rock star heads toward the eye while everyone else is running for the hills. So, as Hurricane...
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Residents of Pinellas Hope tent city evacuate before Helene
CLEARWATER — They waited in a long line spilling out of the tent city, snaking down the sidewalk, shouldering everything they owned. Backpacks and grocery sacks, garbage bags bulging with T-shirts,...
View ArticleWind advisory across parts of Central Florida linger after storm warnings end
Tropical storm warnings are finished but a wind advisory continues across east Central Florida. The wind advisory lasts until 11 a.m., with southwest winds up to 25mph and gusts up to 35mph, according...
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Hurricane Helene wreaks damage, flooding across Florida
Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend area as massive Category 4 storm late Thursday and left a huge swath of damage all along Florida’s Gulf Coast from Tampa Bay northward. Almost 1.2...
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Hurricane center tracks newly formed Tropical Storm Joyce, 2 other systems on...
The National Hurricane Center continued to keeps its focus Friday on what had been Category 4 major Hurricane Helene as it moved inland and became post-tropical, but also was keeping tabs on newly...
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Pictures: Destruction caused by Hurricane Helene
Destroyed homes in the small community of Dekle Beach that was devastated by Hurricane Helene near Keaton Beach, Fla., on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. Helene thrashed Florida as a powerful hurricane,...
View ArticleThanks, Helene! Some St. Pete residents can’t flush toilets, drain sinks for...
ST. PETERSBURG — After days of news conferences warning about Hurricane Helene’s expected historic 5- to 8-feet storm surge, and hours after the window to evacuate had passed, Mayor Ken Welch announced...
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DeSantis: Helene’s ‘historic storm surge’ dealt deadly blow to coastal Florida
Historic storm surges from Hurricane Helene inundated communities across the state’s Gulf Coast — and more than 2.5 million people across Florida lost power — as the massive Category 4 storm made...
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In Hurricane Helene’s wake, feds could fall short on money to help businesses...
As Hurricane Helene bore down on Florida’s Panhandle on Thursday, lawmakers in Washington prepared to leave town without allocating additional money to help small businesses recover from major storms....
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‘It’s gone’: In tiny Gulf Coast community, Helene wiped out homes and businesses
STEINHATCHEE — As Hurricane Helene pounded this tiny coastal community Thursday night, Charles and Dana Webb abandoned their wooden cottage, seeking shelter in a sturdier concrete house next door. They...
View ArticleHurricane Helene continued its path of death, destruction in Georgia, other...
Hurricane Helene weakened into a tropical storm over Georgia on Friday but left a path of death and destruction in its wake as it traveled from its Florida landfall — snapping trees like twigs, tearing...
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