One day out from Hurricane Helene's record-setting havoc around Florida's Big Bend, relief workers, politicians and clean-up crews made a push.

Hurricane Helene’s powerful eye spared major cities like Tampa and Tallahassee, instead making a direct hit September 26 on Florida’s sparsely developed Big Bend, a largely lower-income part of the state where towns are small,

The view from the air — flying under 1,500 feet above the damage — evaded blocked roads and phone service gaps.