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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.