Tallahassee’s 90,000 Homes At Huge Risk As Hurricane Helene Hits
Hurricane Helene will come ashore in the middle of Florida’s Panhandle region. As a Category 4 storm, it will have 150 MPH winds and could dump 20 inches of rain. The one large city in its path is Tallahassee, Florida’s capital, which has almost 90,000 occupied housing units. Across the nearby metro area, the total is over 120,000.
Gulf Coast
The one fortunate thing for Tallahassee is that it is not directly on the Gulf Coast. As Hurricane Beryl hit Houston earlier in the summer, the damage showed that a storm surge created by a hurricane is not the only damage it does. However, smaller Florida cities like Panama City, directly on the Gulf, face storm surges as high as 20 feet.
Houston Damage
Beryl was “only” a Category One hurricane when it hit Houston. Nevertheless, it cut electricity to almost two million homes and damaged thousands of homes and businesses. Beryl’s nationwide cost was $30 billion, with a large part of that in Texas’s largest city.
CBS News recently reported, “If Hurricane Helene becomes a Category 3 storm, it could be the first of that magnitude to slam Tallahassee, Florida, which appears to be in the storm’s path.” Helene may be more powerful than that. The risk to Tallahassee’s homes is significant.
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