AFAR - Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region on September 26 as a Category 4 storm before devastating states to the north (including, most notably, western North Carolina) as one of the deadliest hurricanes in the United States in the past 50 years.
Less than two weeks later, on October 9, Category 3 Hurricane Milton directly targeted the Sarasota area, just south of Tampa Bay, as what’s predicted to be one of the costliest storms on record. Read the story here: