Read our past coverage on Hurricane Helene as it made landfall in Florida and began moving north into Georgia. Damaging Helene has swept through Georgia, leading to 11 deaths. All 159 counties are now assessing the devastation and working to rebuild,

More than 1.2 million people were without power early Friday morning after Helene made landfall near Perry, Florida, as a Category 4 storm.

Helene blew ashore in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 hurricane late Thursday and then quickly moved through Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee, uprooting trees, splintering homes and sending creeks and rivers over their banks and straining dams.

Massive rains brought by Hurricane Helene have left many people stranded or homeless as the cleanup begins from the monster tempest that killed at least 64 people