Cuban comedian Andy Vázquez, who has been residing in Cape Coral, on Florida's west coast, since the beginning of the year, did not hesitate to leave his home to help a friend amidst the torrential rains and floods that marked Thursday night in the state due to the impact of Hurricane Helene.
A video shared by the comedian on Facebook shows how, amid the terrible weather, he came to the aid of a friend whose car had gotten stranded in the middle of the street due to the storm.
Although Cape Coral, located in Lee County, is not in the northern part of the state, where the powerful Category 4 hurricane made landfall, the entire coastal area of the west suffered the blows of the weather phenomenon, according to images posted on social media and also confirmed by the video shared by the comedian on his networks.
"Don't leave the house, stay in the house," recommended Vázquez, who was a witness in the street not only to flooding, heavy rains, and winds, but also to the intervention of firefighters in some cases.
"This looks bad here; trying to tow the car and this looks bad," Andy said, although later, on the way home, he showed pride in having successfully completed the mission.
"The cyclone went to hell..., it's in the field and look how Cape Coral continues," he concluded jokingly amidst the astonishment because the sprinkler system for watering the gardens had gone off in some houses.
In the comments section of the post, many followers of the comedian praised his attitude, asked him to take care of himself, and joked with him about the supplies he bought and wanted to return since the hurricane did not pass through Cape Coral.
Helene made landfall at night in the Big Bend region, north of Florida, accompanied by cyclonic surges described as "catastrophic" and extremely dangerous winds.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) of the U.S. confirmed that the eye of the storm entered at 11:10 p.m. approximately 40 miles from Tallahassee, the state capital, just east of the mouth of the Aucilla River, and about 10 miles from the rural town of Perry.
After intensifying over several hours during its passage through the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, Helene made landfall with maximum sustained winds of 225 km (140 mph).
The phenomenon lost intensity in its land advance over the state of Georgia, and is now a tropical storm. Helene has so far left five dead: one in Florida, two in Georgia, one in North Carolina, and another in South Carolina.
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