More than 2 million customers are waking up without power across the South Friday morning in the wake of Hurricane Helene. More than 1.2 million customers are without power in Florida and over 800,000 are in the dark in Georgia. More than 500,000 lost power in South Carolina and more than 190,000 are without power in North Carolina.

Helene is threatening an “unsurvivable” storm surge in parts of Florida and damaging winds, rains, and flash floods hundreds of miles inland across much of the southeastern US, forecasters said.