Busick, North Carolina, a remote town near Mount Mitchell State Park, received 30.78 inches of rain as a result of Helene — a record for the highest rainfall in the Appalachians from a tropical weather system. It beats the 27 inches that fell over the Virginian Appalachians in 1969.

Initial impacts from Helene — which hit the Carolinas as a tropical storm — are over. But hundreds of thousands are still without power, dozens of roads are closed, and risks of flooding remain.

Wednesday night into Thursday morning, Helene’s outer bands will start to lash Florida’s Gulf Coast. The worst of the conditions will be throughout the day on Thursday. Helene is forecast to make landfall Thursday night along Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 3 hurricane.