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Anniversary of Hurricane Helene reinforces importance of severe weather preparedness for Georgia Power and customers
One year ago today, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane before entering Georgia as a Category 2 storm, barreling through the state leaving behind unprecedented devastation. With 53 counties declared major disaster sites by FEMA, Helene became the most destructive hurricane in Georgia Power's 140-year history — causing more damage than hurricanes Michael, Irma, and Matthew combined. Ultimately, Georgia Power restored 1.5 million total customer outages following the
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