Following the devastation of Hurricane Helene in the Southeast, federal and state agencies are warning residents to be careful of whom you trust to repair your home and which businesses you employ. “After a disaster,

The National Hurricane Center on Saturday forecast the growing system in the Gulf of Mexico to develop into a tropical depression or storm and head to Florida. In the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical advisory, it said showers and thunderstorms associated with a broad area of low pressure in the southwestern Gulf are gradually becoming more organized.

The National Hurricane Center lowered its prediction the season’s next tropical depression or storm would form in the Gulf of Mexico, but Florida is likely to get heavy rain next week whether it develops or not.