Scenes from Helene
Gulf County residents fill sandbags on Knowles Avenue in advance of the pending storm. [ Mary Akin | The Star ]
The CVS in Port St. Joe is all boarded up on Wednesday. [ Mary Akin | The Star ]
Damage to Cape San Blas Road, not far from the Stumphole. [ GCSO | Contributed ]
Flooding on Cape San Blas [ Christina and Callie Clayton | Contributed ]
Mike Savage boards up the windows of his home in the historic district of Apalachicola. [ David Adlerstein | The Times ]
An eel in the ace parking lot of Apalachicola’s Ace Hardware. [ Cecilia Carter | Contributed ]
Helpers work on Thursday morning to prepare Rose’s Botanicals in downtown Apalachicola for the storm. [ David Adlerstein | The Times ]
Trinity Episcopal Church’s Rev. Stephen Pecot appears on the Weather Channel, as seen from a TV in an evacuee’s hotel room in Dothan, Alabama. [ Elizabeth Perkins | Contributed ]
The Eastpoint shoreline, just before the storm. [ Angela Parks | Contributed ]
A look at flooding on St. George Island. [ Teresa Bartlett | Contributed ]
A boardwalk on the bay side in The Plantation on St. George Island. [ Myles Cadwallader | Contributed ]
A washed-up fish under a house on St. George Island. [ Martha Cox | Contributed ]
For the most part, Hurricane Helene’s winds spared the Forgotten Coast, but her rains were not so forgiving.
People heeded the warnings, and boarded up their homes and buildings, and mainly got the heck out of Dodge.
But the aftermath was a lot of soggy ground, and flooded first floors.
Here is a sampling of glimpses of Helene.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.