TALLAHASSEE, Florida (From CNN) - Emergency officials in Florida shifted their focus from search and rescue to relief efforts Monday after Hurricane Jeanne cut a destructive path through the state. Florida Secretary of Health John Agwunobi said trucks carrying water, ice and other essentials were making their way to areas hardest hit. As of 5 p.m. ET, Jeanne had been downgraded to a tropical depression and its remnants were moving north-northeast through Georgia at about 13 mph with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph -- centred about 15 miles east-northeast of Macon.

At least six people died in Florida as a result of the storm, state law enforcement officials said, and about 2.6 million customers were without power, said Secretary of Environmental Protection Colleen Castille. The storm made landfall late Saturday with 120 mph winds near the southern end of Hutchinson Island, five miles southeast of Stuart on Florida's east coast, near where Hurricane Frances came ashore September 5. It collapsed beachfront homes and ripped off roofs on a barrier island near Vero Beach in Indian River County. Concrete utility polls snapped at their bases, leaving power lines in the streets. In Melbourne, traffic was at a near standstill as residents who evacuated tried to return to their homes. City Manager Jack Schlukebier estimated that several hundred homes were damaged. About 75 percent of Melbourne residents were without power; at least 2,500 people remained in shelters, local officials said. Stuart Mayor Jeff Krauskopf said the biggest problem appeared to be roof damage. "Frances took out all the vegetation. Then when Jeanne came through, it got most of the roofs. Commercial [buildings] have had their roofs ripped off and they are being saturated with water," Krauskopf said.

One of the major problems, Florida officials said, was flooding. Osceola County officials said they got 20 inches of rain as the storm passed, inundating areas that already were flooded from previous storms. Jeanne was the fourth hurricane to hit Florida in the past six weeks. "The resiliency of this state is awesome. While we're strained in terms of the resources of our state right now, we're unbowed," Gov. Jeb Bush told reporters during a visit to Pensacola, the Panhandle city that was hard hit by Hurricane Ivan nearly two weeks ago. President Bush declared Florida a major disaster area, making way for additional federal aid to supplement the state's recovery efforts.

These Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) Level 1 and 2 images acquired over the Atlantic Ocean, show Hurricane Jeanne (centre image), as it approached Florida.