Helene made landfall in Florida's Big Bend region Thursday night as a massive Category 4 hurricane -- the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the Big Bend on record.

Hurricane Helene’s death toll has reached 200 and could rise higher still, as searchers make their way toward the hardest to reach places in the mountains of western North Carolina, where the storm washed out roads and knocked out electricity,

Hundreds more are still thought to be missing, though many may simply be disconnected from their families due to lack of power and communications, authorities have said