Following Helene’s landfall, Send Relief, SBDR respond

PERRY, Fla. – Send Relief is supporting multiple state Southern Baptist Disaster Relief (SBDR) teams after Hurricane Helene marched through the Southeast, impacting Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas and leaving more than 4 million without power.

Hurricane Helene made landfall after 11 p.m., Thursday, September 26, near Perry in the Big Bend area of Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm and was not downgraded from hurricane strength until it reached central Georgia. As of early Friday afternoon, the death toll had risen to at least 22.