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PHOTOS by Chandan Khanna, VIDEO by Gianrigo Marletta

It took an hour for Hurricane Helene to hit northern Florida. Algunos residents can stay in their house before coming to town. Others have failed to contend with the fear that the torment would lead to a certain point in time.

The area lies between Florida's capital, Tallahassee, and the Gulf Coast of Mexico, approximately 70 km south, and is very close to the Helene border, right in the Huracan Center (NHC).

The small towns in this zone of Boscoa have just been asked to do so at a young age after the authorities ordered an evacuation for a while in the streets of the city and nearby towns.

The mayor of Cerraron and the many windows protected by wooden panels and sacos de arenas. But some of my residents, like Lance Palmer, have made their final preparations.

In the first hour, this actor and the music left the depot of their jeep and left his house in Panacea, on the sea border and on the coast.

“The conditions are available so that I cannot stop,” explained this man, aged 53. “I'm just about to reach the water level and continue my way to my house. I think: 'De verdad tengo que irme'”.

For this reason, John Luper had a problem with a lack of gasoline: he wanted to keep a long period of time before the flood, but his wife and his hermano did not get out of the way.

“They are not in the air because they are contaminated with them,” said the resigned entrepreneur on site who delivered the gasoline tanks to him.

The zone where it is not located is near Apalache Bay and can be cycled a few kilometers away without being alerted to the authorities.

Meanwhile, up north in Tallahassee, near Cruz Roja, they have to take the time so that people don't have to hang around during the ordeal.

In one of its improvised accommodations, in the balancing station of a school, the organization distributes itself to the last decades of people who learn it: adults, children and the elderly.

Algunos has installed almohadas and cojines in the forest to spend the next few hours with the great possible comodidad.

Greg Farnsley chose to go to a bench a short time later before the ordeal came to an end.

As she let the hurricane pass through her home, just a few miles from the coast, Helene lost its intensity.

“It is a content that I have here. It is much safer to stay at home,” this man is 66 years old. “Sólo espero que, mañana por la tarde, las carreteras de camino a casa estén depejadas y que esta seguirá ahí ahí, tal y como la déjé”.