PHOTOS: Florida cleaning up after Hurricane Helene slams state

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PHOTOS: Florida cleaning up after Hurricane Helene slams state

The storm made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in Florida’s Big Bend region Thursday night with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph.

Hud Lilliott surveys what's left of his home after Hurricane Helene passed the area at Dekle Beach, Fla., in rural Taylor County on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Kate Payne)

Laurie Lilliott surveys what's left of her home after Hurricane Helene passed the area at Dekle Beach, Fla., in rural Taylor County on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Kate Payne)

Workers clear debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, in Cedar Key, Fla., Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Officer Nate Martir, a law enforcement officer from the Florida Fish Wildlife and Conservation Commission, holds an American flag that was lying on the ground amid debris, while patrolling from a high water capable swamp buggy, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, in Cedar Key, Fla., Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Pasha Sinclair takes a break from cleaning the floodwaters of Hurricane Helene from her father's home in the Shore Acres neighborhood Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)

Leslie High surveys the damage near her home in Dekle Beach on the coast of rural Taylor County, Fla., on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Kate Payne)

Leslie High and her husband J.D. High thumb through photos she found in the wreckage near their home Hurricane Helene in Dekle Beach in rural Taylor County, Fla. on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Kate Payne)

Smoke rises from a home that burned amid floodwaters from Hurricane Helene in the Shore Acres neighborhood Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)

Faith Cotto comforts her mother Nancy as they look at the remains of their home which burned during the flooding from Hurricane Helene in the Shore Acres neighborhood Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)

A fire and rescue vehicle drives through destruction in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, in Cedar Key, Fla., Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Destruction is seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, in Cedar Key, Fla., Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Law enforcement officers from the Florida Fish Wildlife and Conservation Commission drive past destruction in a swamp buggy, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, in Cedar Key, Fla., Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Destruction is seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, in Cedar Key, Fla., Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Lieutenant Kevin Kleis, a law enforcement officer from the Florida Fish Wildlife and Conservation Commission, drives past debris in a high water capable swamp buggy on a bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, in Cedar Key, Fla., Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Member of St. Petersburg Fire Rescue help rescue members of the Ocasio-Escobar family of the Shore Acres neighborhood from floodwaters from Hurricane Helene Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)

Law enforcement officers from the Florida Fish Wildlife and Conservation Commission drive past destruction in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, in Cedar Key, Fla., Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

This photo provided by Venice Police Department rescue crews assist residents after conducting door-to-door wellness checks, in coastal areas that were flooded by Hurricane Helene on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024 in Venice, Fla . (Venice Police Department via AP)

This photo provided by Venice Police Department rescue crews assist residents after conducting door-to-door wellness checks, in coastal areas that were flooded by Hurricane Helene on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024 in Venice, Fla . (Venice Police Department via AP)

Tampa firefighters work to contain a house fires, while they walk in a flooded street around the Sunset Park neighborhood after Hurricane Helene on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in Tampa, Fla. (Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

The business Chez What is seen after of Hurricane Helene moved through the area Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in Valdosta, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

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Hud Lilliott surveys what's left of his home after Hurricane Helene passed the area at Dekle Beach, Fla., in rural Taylor County on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Kate Payne)

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