With about 48 hours before the storm makes landfall, Helene is expected to become a destructive Category 3 hurricane – or worse as it nears the Tallahassee area and Florida's Big Bend.

Some communities that need both houses and the taxes they generate are declining to allow applications to proceed.

A week after Hurricane Helene tore through the U.S. Southeast and devastated western North Carolina with heavy rains and severe flooding, satellite images are showing the extent of the damage.

"We still remember the devastation our area experienced from hurricane Irene in 2011, so we want to help in any way we can." Now, customers here at home are already doing their part in Luzerne County.

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Oct. 2—WILKES-BARRE — As communities across the south continue to recover from the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Helene, The Salvation Army is actively mobilizing its national Emergency ...

They are assisting local rescue teams there that themselves deployed to Vermont after the state’s own disastrous storms this year and last. Hurricane Helene hit the northern Gulf coast of ...

Salvation Army Wilkes-Barre Corps volunteers Mark Jacukowicz, left, and Chris Winborn have been deployed to Tampa, Fla., for two weeks to assist with relief efforts in hurricane response.

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Crews from our region are hard at work lending a helping hand to southeastern states hit hard by Hurricane Helene. The storm is now blamed for more than 100 deaths.

While Helene was smashing into Florida and dumping rain on the southeast, hurricane forecasters were watching three systems in the Atlantic. One of them is a new hurricane way out in the ocean.

THAT’S ACTUALLY FROM THE POST-TROPICAL CYCLONE NOW HELENE. SO NO LONGER A HURRICANE OF COURSE, BUT THAT’S WHY WE HAVE SOME OF THOSE UPPER LEVEL CLOUDS IN HERE. WITHOUT THAT, WE’D HAVE A LOT ...

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