Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is assessing the damage left behind after Tropical Storm Helene moved through early Friday morning.
“We got hit really hard,” the governor said in an exclusive interview with Channel 2′s Richard Elliot .
Helene made landfall on Thursday night as a Category 4 hurricane, but quickly weakened to a Category 1 hurricane. By early Friday morning, it weakened to a tropical storm.
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Even though Helene moved through quickly, it left major damage in south Georgia and major flooding in metro Atlanta and north Georgia, Kemp said.
He says that there have been multiple fatalities reported, including at least one that involved a tree hitting a car.
The governor says there are hospitals and nursing homes in south Georgia that don’t have power.
More than one million people across Georgia are without power on Friday morning.
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