Hurricane Helene: Environment Florida, Environment Georgia leaders available to talk

For immediate release: 

Thursday, September 26, 2024

For more information: 

Mia McCormick, Environment Florida Advocate, [email protected], 813-416-5577

Jennette Gayer, Environment Georgia State Director, [email protected], 703-475-3228

Mark Morgenstein, Media Relations Director, [email protected], 303-573-5556

Hurricane Helene: Environment Florida, Environment Georgia leaders available to talk 

With major storm set to strike Florida, head into Georgia, experts on ground can discuss impacts

TAMPA, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center says: “HELENE STRENGTHENING AND EXPECTED TO MAKE LANDFALL IN THE FLORIDA BIG BEND THIS EVENING AS A MAJOR HURRICANE… …PREPARATIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY SHOULD BE RUSHED TO COMPLETION.” 

The NHC predicts that after producing life-threatening storm surge across Florida’s Gulf Coast, Hurricane Helene will then march through a large portion of Georgia at tropical storm strength.  

Tampa-based Environment Florida Advocate Mia McCormick and Atlanta-based Environment Georgia State Director Jennette Gayer are available for eyewitness accounts about Helene’s effects, plus context on what concerns exist in their states. In addition, their extensive networks of in-state contacts could prove useful.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out to McCormick and/or Gayer directly or email [email protected]. If Helene renders McCormick and/or Gayer unreachable, we can still help you: Our national subject matter experts can discuss a variety of potential environmental, health and consumer problems. With Helene, as with all hurricanes in our modern age, Americans face physical threats from wind and storm surge — and financial threats from price gougers, scammers and unethical contractors. 

Here is our most recent data and graphics on potential environmental, health and consumer dangers potentially created by hurricanes — and the flooding that follows:

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