Cars were trickling off the island very slowly while driving through the remaining sea water. Street barricades and other debris floated along Crescent Street just before dawn.

Hurricane Helene is moving up and through the Gulf of Mexico. This blog provides the latest impacts and development in Lee County.

Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region — where the state’s peninsula meets the Panhandle — about 11:10 p.m., the National Hurricane Center said. The massive system is now “an extremely dangerous Category 4” storm,