Hurricane Helene tears through Big Bend region

(leaves 600 mile swath of destruction across Southeast) Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. The remnants of Hurricane Helene – which struck the Big Bend region as a major storm last Thursday night – were still wreaking havoc across the U.S. Southeast on Sunday and into Monday, leaving a reported 600-mile swath of death and destruction in its aftermath. The National Hurricane Center reports that Helene had an enormous wind field, with hurricane-force winds extending outward 60 miles from its center, and tropical storm-force winds reaching out as far out as 345 miles from the center. As of Sunday, the storm, which had been downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone, was still stalled over