PERRY, Fla. (AP) Massive rains from powerful Hurricane Helene left people stranded, without shelter and awaiting rescue Saturday, as the cleanup began from a tempest that killed at least 64 people, caused widespread destruction across the U.S. Southeast and left millions without power.

Ive never seen so many people homeless as what I have right now, said Janalea England, of Steinhatchee, Florida, a small river town along the states rural Big Bend, as she turned her commercial fish market into a storm donation site for friends and neighbors, many of whom couldnt get insurance on their homes.

Helene blew ashore in Floridas Big Bend region as a Category 4 hurricane late Thursday with winds of 140 mph (225 kph).

From there, it quickly moved through Georgia, where Gov. Brian Kemp said Saturday that it looks like a bomb went off after viewing splintered homes and debris-covered highways from the air. Weakened, Helene then soaked the Carolinas and Tennessee with torrential rains, sending creeks and rivers over their banks and straining dams.

Western North Carolina was isolated because of landslides and flooding that forced the closure of Interstate 40 and other roads. All those closures delayed the start of the East Tennessee State University football game against The Citadel because the Buccaneers drive to Charleston, South Carolina, took 16 hours.