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(NewsNation) — Homes successful Keaton Beach, Florida, were leveled arsenic Category 4 Hurricane Helene ripped done the Gulf Coast community.
The tempest made landfall Thursday night, ripping homes from their instauration and flooding neighborhoods with an estimated 15 feet of tempest surge, according to the National Hurricane Center.
NewsNation spoke with a nonmigratory named Missy, whose spot was leveled successful the "massive" tempest she says has made the country "unrecognizable."
"It's truthful overwhelming, I can't adjacent statesman to picture it. It's dissimilar thing I've ever experienced, I've ever seen. We've been done respective storms here, and this is similar thing I would've ever imagined," she said.
A section quality presumption says officials estimation 90% of the homes determination were destroyed aft Helene made landfall.
"I don't cognize if we'll beryllium capable to travel backmost from this ... it's a lot. This is our blessed place," Missy told NewsNation. She said that "most everyone we know" evacuated the country anterior to the storm.
At slightest 40 radical person died across 4 states — Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina — arsenic a effect of the hurricane. Millions stay without power.
Watch: 90% of Keaton Beach, Florida, homes destroyed successful Hurricane Helene, report says
