
Thousands of Florida residents have been forced to evacuate as the state prepares for rapidly strengthening Tropical Storm Helene, which could bring powerful winds, flooding and life-threatening storm surge to areas already hard-hit by recent hurricanes.
Helene is on track to make landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast – possibly in the Big Bend region – late Thursday and threatens to become the strongest storm to hit the United States in over a year. Expected to become a hurricane on Wednesday, Helene would be the fourth hurricane to make landfall in the US this year and the fifth to slam Florida since 2022. Click for Video…
