Local responders adopt watchful waiting posture for Hurricane Helene

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Bulloch County EMA Director Corey Kemp, seen here in the county Emergency Operations Center in April, convened a meeting in the Emergency Operations Center Wednesday concerning the approach of Hurricane Helene to the Bulloch County area Thursday and Friday. On Wednesday evening, Helene was still in the south of the Gulf of Mexico, headed north from near the Yucatan Peninsula but with eastern Georgia already under a tropical storm warning, and Bulloch County emergency responders were preparing but also watchfully waiting. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff

Bulloch County EMA Director Corey Kemp, seen here in the county Emergency Operations Center in April, convened a meeting in the Emergency Operations Center Wednesday concerning the approach of Hurricane Helene to the Bulloch County area Thursday and Friday. On Wednesday evening, Helene was still in the south of the Gulf of Mexico, headed north from near the Yucatan Peninsula but with eastern Georgia already under a tropical storm warning, and Bulloch County emergency responders were preparing but also watchfully waiting. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff

Wednesday, with Hurricane Helene still way down south in the Gulf of Mexico, headed north from near the Yucatan Peninsula but with eastern Georgia already under a tropical storm warning, Bulloch County emergency responders were preparing but also watchfully waiting.