Helene reached hurricane status on Wednesday and is expected to reach Category 4 strength winds as it makes landfall starting Thursday and marches up through much of Georgia to possibly include the Augusta area.
“Our team has put together requests to the Emergency Management Compact,” said Chris Stallings, director of the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency, during a media briefing on Wednesday. “We’ve requested an additional fleet of generators from the state of New Jersey.
“We’re also prepping a state logistics staging area where a lot of these resources will be moved to middle Georgia to get to areas in south Georgia a lot faster once the storm has settled.”…