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Hurricane Helene makes landfall in Florida moves to Georgia:What is coming next

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Hurricane Helene has been downgraded to a category one storm but authorities warn winds and rainfall are still high risk threat.

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Hurricane Helene is classified as category one less threatful but dangerous.

Authorities warned that winds and rainfall still pose a threat to people in Carolinas, Georgia and Florida.

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What happened when Hurricane Helene hit Florida?

  1. Hurricane Helene made landfall at 03:10 GMT on Thursday night 23:10 Eastern Standard Time with maximum sustained winds at 225 kilometers per hour 140 miles per hour.
  2. As a category four storm it was powerful to hit the State Big Bend region Few hours later at about 06:40 GMT authorities downgraded the hurricane to category one but warned that heavy rainfall and strong damaging winds still posed a mega threat.

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  1. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has urged students to remain indoors and avoid roadways as mega storm surge from Helene floods like streets and make threatful scenario.
  2. Fallen trees make power line down across the state and 6:40 GMT 1.3 million people in Florida without power.
  3. Florida has population of 22 million people
  4. The weather service warned people to treat the strong winds like a tornado is coming move to an inside room.

What are conditions in Georgia and neighboring states?

  1. In North Carolina over 260,000 person have been placed under a flash flood threat in Asheville. The National Water Center warned that flooding along the Swannanoa River is possible.
  2. Some 770,709 people were without power across Georgia North Carolina and South Carolina according to power outage.us.
  3. According to National Weather Service over 37 million person from the southern tip of Florida to western North Carolina were placed under tropical storm warning Friday.
  4. This means that tropical storm conditions with winds reaching 117 km/h are anticipated in the region within next 36 hours.
  5. In Georgia Helence could bring 30.5cm of rain or more on Friday destructing the pecan crops and state cotton which are mid harvest.

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Which direction is Hurricane Helene moving?

  1. Authorities added damaging winds will be felt across Georgia and the Carolinas throughout Friday in higher areas of Southern Appalachians in North Carolina.
  2. Helene landed almost mouth of the Aucilla River in the Big Bend region of Florida Gulf Coast.
  3.  At 05 GMT local authorities said Helene was moving northwards to Georgia. The National Hurricane  Centre said eyewall the part of storm with strongest winds underneath it was entering the southern part of state.

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  1. President Biden who authorised on Thursday disaster declarations for Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama said people to treat the storm extremely seriously cautioning that it was expected to be catastrophic.

What do hurricane categories mean?

  1. The National Weather Service NWS in US employs the Saffir Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale to classify storms.
  2. Categories one and two are considered dangerous
  3. Category 3 and above are considered major hurricanes because of potential for loss of life and damage.
  4. Category one will have winds at 119-153 km/h
  5. Category four hurricane will sustain winds from 209-251 km.h.

The NHC warned that catastrophic and deadly storm ug reaching as high as 20 feet would hit parts of Bing Bend coast with danger of life threatening storm surge across the whole of western coast of the Florida peninsula.

Hurricane Helene is fourth hurricane to make landfall in the US this year coming over month after Storm Debby slammed into Sunshine state.

Helene is expected to turn toward the west and travel towards Tennesse through the Appalachian Mountains some time over course of today before cutting into Kentucky in Bowling Green area around 8pm.

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency on thursday for all 159 counties adding “The current forecast for Hurricane Helene suggest this storm will impact every part of our state”

“We are not taking anything for granted which is why i have directed appropriate state agencies to work around the clock to ensure we are prepared for whatever is heading our way”

Tropical storm force winds are forecast to reach Kentucky by around 2pm on Friday afternoon before reaching Tennessee, North Carolina and Alabama.

Two victims died in Wheeler County Georgia after their trailer was picked across High way 19 before landing in a field.’

At least three person have died so far as result of storm including a driver a who was killed when sign fell onto their car in Tampa according to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

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200 miles separate Key West and Parkland.

One dates back centuries while other is 50 years old. One holds itself up to be model of modern suburban living.

In South Florida the dividing line between 2 more people moving in and those leaving is Broward Miami Dade county line.

North of that in Palm Beach counties and Broward the population increase.

South in Miami Dade and Monroe counties more people moved out.

The rapid growing city in Florida with 20,000 resident between 2020 and 2023 was Haines City. Heart of Florida is what it says on city seal.

Haines City is about 40 miles south of Orlando. Its population  grew by 35%.

.These two cities are on different end of spectrum of Florida population growth.

Parkland is rapid growing city in South Florida with over 20,000 residents since the Covid-19 pandemic. Its population has increased more than 9%.

Key West is facing drop in residents losing 5 % of population between April 2020 and July 2023.

Parkland is city for people to move to said Parkland Mayor Richard Walker.

Even though one is increasing and one is falling the two cities share some of same driving forces behind population changes, home prices and housing supply.

More homes are coming to Parkland. The city bought part old Heron Bay Golf Course about year and half ago.

The course hosted the Honda Classic for 6 years it closed in 2019.

Parkland paid $25.4 million for 65 acres of course.It sold two dozen acres to home builder for $19.5 million.

52 luxury homes are expected to be spread across 21 acres.

The area is expected to include commercial development like restaurants and shopping.

Walker said :We bought that kind of limit how much residential we can have in there.

“It gives us chance to provide amenities to residents. We do not have shopping restaurants.

City is not finished. Walker and city have eyes on largest undeveloped tract of land in Broward County. Hendrix Farm has 739 acres sitting between Parkland northwest border and Loxahatchee Road.

“We will have additional supply whether its three years. four years 10 years from now we do not really know that.”

In Key West Johnston hopes to address lack of housing supply by asking voters to change city charter permitting it to purchase properly for housing.

The city can buy property if voters okay purchase through a ballot refrendum.

“If we desire employes to stay here and live here in city of Key West raise their families here send kids to our schools we have got to do something to impact that. That falls into category of housing.”

Florida homeowners pay highest premium for home insurance. Florida close to $11000 a year.

The 6 most expensive cities for home insurance in country are in South Florida.

Key West had additional challenge that taxpayer backed Citizen properly Insurance the insurer of last resort often is only insurer.

Four out of five home insurance policy in Keys is with Citizens.

Johnston pointed out home is difficult in Key West. The median price of home for sale is $1.5 million.

Key West in good company of South Florida cities shrinking since covid.High price of housing is one reason to drop in population.

Aventura and Miami Beach lost 4% residents. Sunny Isles Beach and Coral Gables shrunk by 2%

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Central Maine Power Consumer will save more than initially thought in 2024

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It seems that Central Maine Power customers will save even more in 2024 than we thought. In recent past the Maine Public Utilities Commission announced that they approve the cost of electricity in CMP standard offer. For the first occassion in few years that amount had decreased. The new rate is about 35% less than in 2023.

Central Maine Power is one of the state mega electric utilities. The company serves about 650,000 consumers in 346 Maine municipalities. The company operates about 235,000 miles of distribution lines and has about 2900 miles of transmission lines.

The company is also dedicated to assisting the people of Maine. Central Mained Power is a assistant of the Travis Mills Foundation the Maine Veterans Project Partnership.

The reason for decrease was a reduction in the cost of natural gas. Much of CMP’s electricity is created through the burning of natural gas. There are gossips that price will drop down more.

Reduction is only in the cost of the electricity itself. Central Maine Power electricity delivery cost will drop by about 4% in 2024.Average CMP customer will save about $35 per month.It means you can save $420 for the next year.This saving will help you to purchase more grocery for your family.

CMP delivery Price will decrease to 11.7 per kilowatt hour from 12.2 cents starting next january.It is second announcement of drop rates in past two weeks.

Electric bill in Maine includes two parts delivery and supply.Delivery cost go to local utilities and supply cost go to the electricity generators.

CMP spokesman Jon Breed told that delivery price is derived from a complicated formula made by ISO New England the region grid operator and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The rate is attached with regional transmission service and cost of local.