The anniversary of Hurricane Helene making landfall is Sept. 26. The eye of the storm did not make a direct hit on the Tampa Bay region. Still, it did have a devastating impact on many Floridians.
“Don’t just take the intensity of the storm and be like, ‘OK, it’s just a tropical storm. I’m going to be fine,’ ” Florida Public Radio Emergency Network (FPREN) Senior Meteorologist Megan Borowski said.
Take Helene for example. It was an extratropical cyclone when it reached the Carolinas and then dumped tremendous amounts of rainfall…