Extreme winds and intense rain as Hurricane Helene's eyewall strikes the Big Bend of Florida

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Storm chaser Aaron Jayjack showed the extreme conditions in Perry, Florida, with landfall of Hurricane Helene imminent as the strongest hurricane to ever strike the area.

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00:00The strongest hurricane ever to make landfall in the Big Bend of Florida is about an hour away.

00:08Our team coverage continues now live with storm chaser Aaron Jayjack.

00:13He is live in Perry, Florida.

00:15So again, we've made the call.

00:17The landfall is going to be just off to your east, just off to your west, Aaron.

00:23But you are getting in.

00:24You're going to be into that eyewall here within the next 15 to 20 minutes.

00:30We are moments away from that eyewall.

00:35We're already feeling the effects of the pressure in Perry, Florida.

00:39As you can see behind me, frequent power flickers here and power flashes going on all throughout

00:44the area.

00:45Winds gusting 50, 60 plus miles per hour right now.

00:49Probably sustained winds in the 40 to 50 mile per hour range as well.

00:52So conditions are getting very nasty here.

00:54Unfortunately for right now, we do still have power here in Perry, Florida.

01:08How about we do this?

01:10Take the camera and I want you to pan around and zoom around and show our viewers some

01:15of the conditions that we're dealing with here.

01:17Let's show what we're looking at here.

01:19There is the rain that's falling.

01:21You can see it's almost falling in parallel here as we're looking at wind gusts of over

01:2860 miles per hour.

01:29Aaron's going to walk through the lot here.

01:31Aaron, do be careful.

01:32You can see the rain coming in.

01:34As bad as things are now, they are going to ramp up here very quickly within the next

01:39half hour to 40 minutes or so.

01:41So Aaron, do be safe.

01:43Again, you are in extreme wind warning right now.

01:46Wind gusts of at least 115 miles per hour.

01:51There's been the flickering of power outages, and I suspect, again, things will be going

01:56downhill very quickly.

01:57Aaron, we're going to check back with you.

02:00Stay safe, my friend.

02:01You're going to be getting in to the eyewall of the strongest hurricane ever to hit the

02:06Big Bend of Florida.

02:08That's coming within the next 15 to 20 minutes.

02:12in Perry.

02:14In Perry, that is, let me see, located about 56 miles away from the center of the circulation

02:23of Haleen.

02:24All right.

02:25We called.

02:26Landfall is imminent.

02:27It is going to be right in here at the mouth of the Osceola River right here.

02:31That is between Taylor.

02:33This is Taylor County.

02:34This is Jefferson County.

02:36That's where we're going to be getting the landfall here within the next 45 minutes or

02:40so.

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