To those who live on the narrow spit of land that is the Pass-a-Grille neighborhood — the tail end of barrier islands extending from St. Pete Beach up to Clearwater known as “The Key West of Tampa Bay beaches” — it’s a slice of paradise developed at the turn of the century and historically sheltered from major storms.

Hurricane Helene has made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm. It is the strongest hurricane on record to slam into Florida’s Big Bend. You can track Helene’s path with CNN’s storm tracker. • A sprawling storm: Helene is one of the largest storms in the Gulf of Mexico in the last century,

Residents in the Venetian Isles neighborhood of St. Petersburg, Fla., began to comb through their homes in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

Enter Hurricane Helene. The punishing force of the Category 4 storm has left millions of power customers without electricity in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. At least 20 people have been confirmed killed,

Helene hit Florida as a Category 4 hurricane Thursday, bringing deadly storm surges and flooding to much of the Southeast U.S.