by Hannah Knudsen at Breitbart
“Tens of thousands” of linemen are ready to respond to Hurricane Helene, which is expected to make landfall in northern Florida on Thursday evening, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced.
In a press conference Thursday morning, the governor went over the current state of the storm barreling toward Florida, noting that it is expected to make landfall sometime in the evening. While, at the time of his press conference, Hurricane Helene was a Category 2 storm, he said it is “possible that this storm could make landfall as a major hurricane, as a Category 3, or even potentially a Category 4.”
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“It is moving fast. More rainfall is, of course, expected, and it could lead to significant storm surge in our coastal areas. And so we are prepared for that, of course, and we’ll see what happens in terms of the intensification. I think that these things can rapidly intensify. Sometimes they become major. Sometimes there’s changes. So we’re just going to continue to do our thing and assume that this is going to be a major hurricane when it makes lands fall,” the governor said, emphasizing that the storm is “very large.” Therefore, tropical weather will go hundreds of miles away from the center of the storm.
“[That] doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to have a hurricane Category 3 winds, say, on the east coast of Florida, but you are going to have tropical conditions. It is going to be nasty throughout the latter part of the day here in the state of Florida,” he said, warning of coming power outages and urging residents to stay safe, heed the warnings of local officials, and stay put once the storm hits.
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