Hurricane Helene has left 4.4 million people without power and at least 30 dead across four states as it battered Georgia and moved into the Carolinas early on Friday.
The storm has been downgraded to a tropical depression and is located about 125 miles southeast of Louisville, Kentucky, as of Friday afternoon.
It was updated to Category 4 earlier in the evening, and hit the Florida‘s Big Bend region just after 11pm with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph.
But the damage extended hundreds of miles to the north, with flooding as far away as North Carolina, where a lake used in scenes from the movie ‘Dirty Dancing’ overtopped a dam.
At least 15 people have died in Georgia and 17 in South Carolina due to the storm.
Helene had already spurred warnings and several states of emergencies, not only Florida, but all the way to Georgia and the Carolinas. More than 60million Americans in 12 states are under some form of advisory.
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