U.S. Geological Survey

Scenes of flooding around Fort Myers Beach

Hurricane Helene's wind and surge brought sand - and arguments - ashore

Tom Bayles

What to do with perfectly fine beach sand — once it's been cleared that it's really perfectly fine — depends on whom you talk to, and who pays

USGS scientists attach wind sensors to things they believe will still be there on Friday, as a worker is shown here doing to a pier piling during a different storm, just hours before Hurricane Helene moves into the Gulf of Mexico

Environment

USGS scientists rush to attach wave sensors to piers, seawalls, before Hurricane Helene's arrival

Tom Bayles

With little time to spare scientists with the USGS attached wave sensors on anything the agency thought might be standing after Hurricane Helene roared through

Hurricane

USGS: Hurricane Helene likely to re-shape Florida's west coast

Tom Bayles

The U.S Geological Service forecast that soon-to-be Huricane Helene is so strong it will send waves overtopping the beaches and dunes everywhere on Florida's Gulf Coast leading to a "worst-case scenario"