As it works to restore power to the Georgians impacted by Tropical Storm Helene, Georgia Power said the company had so far gotten the lights back on for about 690,000 customers.

Helene made landfall late on Thursday in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 Hurricane. It weakened Friday morning to a tropical storm with sustained winds of 70 mph.

Calling it the largest storm to ever hit Florida’s Big Bend region, the American Red Cross is urging Americans to rush donations to their organization as recovery efforts in Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina,

Eleven people were killed in Georgia as Helene barreled through the east central part of the state, Gov. Kemp said during a Friday briefing of the storm's aftermath. The latest: One of those 11 victims of the storm is a first responder,

On top of the property damage and power outages, officials have confirmed to ABC News that nine lives have also been lost.

Helene has weakened to a tropical storm as of Friday morning and will continue to weaken today as it moves over Georgia toward the Tennessee Valley. The extent of the damage from the storm is yet to be realized but widespread flooding was reported across the Southeast. National Hurricane Center

In the Georgia Power Storm Center, they are coordinating the many crews and sending them to places like a Brookhaven Street, where a tree fell on wires that then snapped this pole in half.

A hurricane made landfall in northwestern Florida as a Category 4 storm as forecasters warned the enormous system could create a “nightmare” storm surge and bring dangerous winds and rain across much of the southeast.

After making landfall in Florida, Helene swept through several southeastern states, causing severe flooding, destruction and power outages.