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Thousands of people have woken up in the dark across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach amid hurricane-force winds, with over 7 million people under flood watch.

A senior Weather Channel meteorologist said it was "Miami's wettest day in over 11 years."

No name system even show a broad area of circulation on radar as it rolled past South Florida early Thursday morning.

The no-name storm swept the region over two days and dumped up to 14 inches of rain in some spots, with gusts as high as 75 mph in Miami Beach and Dania Beach.

Https://youtu.be/UEFKudNMHls?si=WwcQy9fC2ym-A1qU Incredible catastrophe still playing out in Acapulco, following devastating Hurricane Otis last week. The storm's rapidly intensification is likely a preview of future attractions along the US Gulf and East Coasts, as the video above discusses.Otis and its implications have largely disappeared from the mainstream media radar. Will Bunch in the Philadelphia Inquirer: Nearly…

Yes, the intensity forecast for Hurricane Otis was a bust. They key lesson that we should take away from the disaster in Acapulco, Mexico.

More than two dozen people were killed and three were missing after the most powerful hurricane to hit the Pacific coast of Mexico turned a popular tourist destination into a scene of mass devastation, shocking forecasters and government officials with its intensity.

Photographs and videos showed ravaged hotel rooms, doors ripped from hinges and furniture scattered throughout city streets.

The storm was one of the strongest ever to hit the southwest coast, but the extent of the destruction in Acapulco and elsewhere was unclear early Thursday.

Hurricane experts were shocked by how quickly the storm intensified.