The powerful storm that slammed into northern Florida as a Category 4 hurricane on Thursday night has been downgraded to a tropical storm as it moves across the southeast.
Hurricane Helene made landfall around 10 miles west of Perry, Florida, at 11:10 p.m. ET, Fox Weather reported. Helene set the record for the strongest hurricane to hit Florida’s Big Bend, the area of the state where the panhandle meets the peninsula.
As the storm moved inland into Alabama and Georgia, it weakened to a tropical storm. Helene, however, remains dangerous, causing flooding and high winds that knocked out power for nearly one million customers in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. That’s in addition to the over 1.2 million customers without power in Florida, CNN reported. At least three storm-related deaths have been reported as of early Friday morning, and around 25 people in Atlanta have…
