Trees come down in Tallahassee as Helene tears through Florida

AccuWeather's Ali Reid reported live from Tallahassee early in the morning of Sept. 27, surveying damage as trees fell on top of homes and vehicles.

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00:00We want to go now live to Allie Reed. She is thankfully a bit inland so she's not

00:04going to float away but there is a lot of wind a lot of rain and Allie Reed

00:08how's it going out there right now?

00:12Well Jeff you mentioned it perfectly we didn't see a ton of wind we didn't see a

00:17lot of rain we are still seeing that right now but not nearly as bad as some

00:21other areas around Florida right? Unfortunately this area many people

00:25going to be waking up tomorrow morning and seeing damage like this. This is

00:30something to see huh? A tree completely ripping into the top of this apartment

00:35complex here. Thankfully we've been speaking to neighbors we're told that

00:39this entire apartment complex had actually taken the advice of city

00:43officials a number of days ago and they evacuated to get out of this area. The

00:48other thing to note there is a car underneath the debris here whether or

00:53not that's going to be drivable when this family gets back to this area that

00:57is to be determined. But certainly lives were saved here today because the people

01:04in this apartment complex they listened to local officials and they evacuated

01:08like they were told to do. Thankfully no one inside of this apartment building

01:13when this tree came down on this apartment. If there was someone inside I

01:17could imagine that this could have been a very very different scenario here. Now

01:22I think the big topic of concern again while this area may not have seen as

01:26much wind or rain like other parts of this parts of the state may have seen

01:31people are going to be waking up tomorrow and realize wow there is still

01:35some significant damage here. My photographer Andy and I have been

01:38roving throughout the area over the last hour before we brought to you guys

01:42live just now. We saw a ton of debris everywhere along the street and just a

01:48few minutes drive away from where we were we saw one of those big oak trees

01:51that we were talking about down on the road. We've seen police officers out

01:55catering to those areas. That is going to be a big topic of concern tomorrow. We

02:01were also mentioning those mobile homes, manufactured homes. We've been trying to

02:05keep a close eye on some of those communities to see how they'll make out.

02:08That'll be something that will be on the lookout for tomorrow. But really wow just

02:13something this is just incredible guys. I am so so glad no one was inside of this

02:18apartment building. One thing to note this apartment complex no power here

02:23except for one family. They had a generator around the corner and they've

02:27decided to stick it out in this apartment complex. It is eerily quiet

02:30here in town and because it is so dark a lot of people again not knowing what the

02:36extent of their damage may look like when they wake up tomorrow morning.

02:39That'll be something that a lot of people are gonna have to assess in just

02:42a few hours time once the Sun actually comes up here. Jeff really really

02:46incredible stuff here. I'm glad that everyone made it out safe. Absolutely

02:49well said there Allie. Thank you for that report. In Tallahassee Florida the

02:53center of the storm now racing to the north northeast. We're gonna take you

02:57though even though the center of the storm is technically over Georgia at

03:00this point the storm surge holds and continues in Cedar Key Florida.