Hurricane Helene carved a path of destruction from deep South Georgia to the state’s mountainous northeast and on into the Carolinas and Tennessee.

Emergency crews rushed Friday to rescue people trapped in flooded homes after Helene roared ashore as a powerful Category 4 hurricane in Florida, generating a massive storm surge and knocking out powe

Hurricane Helene’s floodwaters have barely receded from Florida’s west coast, but forecasters are already tracking two more disturbances. The National Hurricane Center is watching a disturbance that is over the western Caribbean Sea and might strengthen in a similar spot where Helene did Tuesday before slamming into the Big Bend as a Category 4 hurricane just before midnight Thursday.