Hurricane Helene Sept. 2024

Hurricane Helene took a path across multiple states and caused catastrophic damage and loss along her way. Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina and North Carolina all felt the affects of this system. Halo and partner teams staged in Tallahassee Florida and waited for land fall.

Helene formed on September 24, 2024, and rapidly intensified into a Category 4 hurricane. It made landfall near Horseshoe Beach, Florida, on September 26, 2024, with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph (220 km/h)

Helene resulted in at least 234 fatalities and caused economic damage estimated at over $120 billion. It was the deadliest hurricane to strike the U.S. since Hurricane Maria in 2017.

Rescue and support was provided by air, boat and vehicles to reach those in need. Teams moved as the eye of the storm was just moving fulling onto land trekking down to Steinhatchee FL. Supporting local and state organizations with boat rescue for areas that were inundated with water. With more information coming in about the destruction of the storm as it moved north east teams pivoted and worked back up to Georgia.

Monitoring the information as it rapidly came in a clear need for support in NC was noted. Wasting no time our team headed on the trip up to provide live saving and sustaining support. Waters still raging and families trying to make sense of what happened as we hit the ground and air full force.

More Details and Pictures to Follow

Hurricane Idalia – August 2023

Hurricane Idalia was a powerful and destructive Category 4 hurricane that caused significant damage across parts of the southeastern United States, especially in North Florida, in late August 2023. The tenth named storm, third hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season.

The system was upgraded to a tropical depression on August 26, 2023, and strengthened into a tropical storm a day later, receiving the name Idalia. It traversed the Gulf of Mexico where it underwent rapid intensification, briefly becoming a Category 4 hurricane prior to making landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida at Category 3 strength on August 30. Idalia remained a hurricane as it moved through Northern Florida and crossed into Southeast Georgia; it then pushed into the Carolinas as a tropical storm. On August 31, Idalia emerged into the Atlantic, where it transitioned into a post-tropical cyclone that same day. Later, it passed south of Bermuda, made a counterclockwise loop, then meandered off the coast of Nova Scotia while winding down.

H.A.L.O Responded to the storm – Below is a snapshot of our deployment.