Severe flooding hit North Carolina in the early hours of Friday as Hurricane Helene brought torrential rainfall to swaths of the Southeast.hienca

The storm weakened to Category 2 hurricane as it raced into Georgia, but was still packing a punch with 110 mph winds, forecasters said.

Before Helene made landfall, a driver was killed in Ybor City outside Tampa Bay when a sign fell on top of their vehicle, according to Gov. Ron DeSantis and reports.

And in Georgia, two people died in a possible tornado from Helene’s outer bands as the storm bore down on the coast.

Experts have also warned that a large stretch of the Florida Panhandle could see “unsurvivable” storm surge of up to 20 feet.