FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell tells PEOPLE Helene was “a unique storm,” that brought “different types of threats” to different areas across the U.S. South

Nearly a week after Hurricane Helene hit the Southeast, the Category 4 storm has killed nearly 200 people and caused widespread destruction.

Helene made landfall in Florida's Big Bend region Thursday night as a massive Category 4 hurricane -- the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the Big Bend on record.

Millions of people from coastal Florida to the Blue Ridge Mountains are reeling in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. The storm made landfall on Florida’s Big Bend as a Category 4 hurricane – the strongest on record to strike the area.

At least 61 people have died in hard-hit Buncombe County, North Carolina, which encompasses Asheville, county officials said. Hundreds of thousands of customers in the South are still without power nearly one week after Hurricane Helene made landfall.

By now, you have probably seen the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene’s trek through the southeastern United States. Helene was just about as bad as it can get. What if such a storm were to move through the ArkLaTex?

Many Americans are still without power, water, and other basic necessities, days after Hurricane Helene’s deadly force tore a path through the southeast. Helene made landfall as a category four storm in the Big Bend of Florida on the night of September 26.

Helene came ashore last Thursday in northern Florida before carving a path of destruction through the south east.