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Tropical Storm Helene Rains on Florida Panhandle

Aired September 22, 2000 - 10:12 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Weather-wise now, folks along the gulf coast of Florida feeling the effects of Tropical Storm Helene. The storm has weakened quite a bit, but there's still plenty of rain falling in the area, and the threat of tornadoes as well is still out there.

CNN's Brian Cabell live in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida with us now.

Hey, Brian, good morning to you. How are conditions? They look like they're kind of nice, actually, improving anyway. Good morning.

BRIAN CABELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: They are pretty nice, as a matter of fact, Bill. Helene has put a damper on some early fall vacations, but that's about all.

Let's take a look, first of all, at this one shot that will give you an idea of how serious Helene is in these parts. Here we have a couple of children frolicking in the hotel pool.

Out on the water out in the gulf here, there are people walking along for the last couple of hours. We have had no rain, I'd say, for the last two hours. Winds topped out at about 45 miles an hour just before dawn this morning. We probably had a couple inches of rain. We had surf maybe six feet high.

We talked to a county official here just about a half hour ago. He said there's been no building damage in this county, no road damage whatsoever. They had a couple shelters open overnight. Those have now been closed down. The bigger problems may lie to the east. That's where there's some concern about flooding, also some concern about the spawning of tornadoes.

But here in Ft. Walton Beach, even though government offices are closed, schools are closed, vacations have been put on hold to some degree and it's not quite as nice as they would like, the conditions really are not all that bad. In fact, we may get some sun a little bit later today.

So, all in all, Helene was not a major problem. They did not think it would be when we came in last night. There was no sense of urgency, no homes boarded up by any means, no windows taped over. And what we have today is just a cloudy day with a little bit of sun shining through and kids frolicking in the swimming pool.

I'm Brian Cabell, CNN, live in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida.

HEMMER: All right, Brian, thanks.

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