The most shocking videos of Hurricane Helene in Florida- Grupo Milenio

He Hurricane Helene made landfall Thursday night in northwest Florida like a category 4 storm, as forecasters warned the massive system could create a “nightmare” storm surge and bring dangerous winds and rain to much of the southeastern United States.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami said that Helene made landfall around 11:10 p.m.. EDT near the mouth of the Aucilla River in the Big Bend area of ​​Florida’s Gulf Coast.

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It had maximum sustained winds estimated at 140 mph. (225 kph). That location was only about 20 miles northwest of where Hurricane Idalia made landfall last year with almost the same ferocity and caused widespread damage.

Helene sparked hurricane and flood warnings sudden surges that extended well beyond the coast to northern Georgia and western North Carolina. More than a million homes and businesses were without power in Florida and more than 50,000 in Georgia, according to the tracking site poweroutage.us. The governors of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, the Carolinas and Virginia declared emergencies in their states.

One person died in Florida when a sign fell on their car and two people were reported killed in a possible tornado in southern Georgia as the storm approached.

“When Floridians wake up tomorrow morning, we will wake up to a state where there has most likely been additional loss of life and there will certainly be loss of property,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a news conference on Thursday night.

He National Weather Service in Tallahassee had issued an “extreme wind warning” for the Big Bend as the eyewall approached: “Treat this warning like a tornado warning,” he said in a post on

Even before hitting the ground, the fury of the storm was widely feltwith sustained tropical storm force winds and hurricane-force gusts along the west coast of Florida. Water lapped over a road on Siesta Key, near Sarasota, and covered some intersections in St. Pete Beach. Lumber and other debris from a fire in Cedar Key a week ago crashed onto the shoreline in rising water.

Hurricane Helene Videos

In social networksdozens of Internet users have dedicated themselves to sharing videos and photographs where they were shown destruction caused by Hurricane Helene.

The X user @WxNB_ shared a video with the following text: “The National Center for Hurricanes It is now forecasting an “unsurmountable storm surge” of up to 20 feet from Hurricane Helene in Florida’s Big Bend. This is what you see.”

​The user of @krassenstein shared another video where you could see the effects of Hurricane Helene inside a housethe water entered the home causing it to flood and damage some objects.

“I’m not saying this happened because of climate change, but these storms seem to be stronger and more frequent,” the netizen wrote.

The account from TikTok mrdunks1 published a video where he showed different images of the damage caused by Helene in the coastal area of ​​Florida.

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