ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Western North Carolina officials are telling people to prepare for the worst as Hurricane Helene prepares to make landfall in Florida.
As of 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Helene strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane just south of the Florida panhandle. It’s expected to make landfall late Thursday night near Tallahassee before continuing north through Georgia and up into Tennessee overnight into Friday afternoon.
The storm has a lot of power and is expected to bring damaging winds and catastrophic flooding along its projected path to Tennessee, including in Western North Carolina where a state of emergency has been declared…