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Cedar Key's mayor issued an evacuation order to residents as they brace for Idalia’s expected storm surge that is “not at all survivable."

Florida’s Big Bend is one of the last truly natural places in the state.

Florida residents living in vulnerable coastal areas were ordered to pack up and leave Tuesday as Hurricane Idalia gained steam.

Florida’s Big Bend is one of the last truly natural places in the state

Idalia strengthened into a hurricane Tuesday and barreled toward Florida’s Gulf Coast as authorities warned residents of vulnerable areas to pack up and leave. (Aug. 29) (AP video by Daniel Kozin)

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CEDAR KEY, Fla. -- Florida residents living in vulnerable coastal areas were ordered to pack up and leave Tuesday as Hurricane Idalia gained steam in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and threatened to unleash life-threatening storm surges and rainfall.

The National Weather Service called Idalia “an unprecedented event” since no major hurricanes on record have ever passed through the bay abutting the Big Bend.

CEDAR KEY, Fla. (AP) — Florida residents living in vulnerable coastal areas were ordered to pack up and leave Tuesday as Hurricane Idalia gained steam in the

Florida’s Big Bend is one of the last truly natural places in the state. It’s not Disney World. It’s not South Beach. This is where people go to hunt alligators,