Loading ...The hurricane now grows to Cat 4′
Hope those who will ride it out not in surge areas stay together in one safest room so they know where they are and can stay out during the worst of it. I’ve heard more than once people losing children sleeping in a different room by falling debris usually trees.
now saying surge to increase to 20 feet.
Hurricane Helene is now forecast to reach catastrophic Category 4 strength by the time it makes landfall in Florida on Thursday, the National Hurricane Center says, with storm surge potentially climbing to 20 feet along some parts of the coast.
Helene could be the strongest hurricane to hit the United States in over a year – and time is running out for those in its path to prepare.
“Preparations to protect life and property from storm surge and damaging winds along the Florida Big Bend coast should be rushed to completion today,” the center warned.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/25/us/helene-tropical-storm-florida-evacuations/index.html