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The extent of the flooding, destruction and death caused by Hurricane Idalia is now being reported, which struck Florida’s Big Bend coastline on Wednesday morning and moved into Georgia and the Carolinas later in the day.

Flooding from Hurricane Idalia’s storm surge and tree damage were keeping firefighters from getting to a house that was on fire in Hernando County, also known as Florida’s “Adventure Coast.”

Residents in Hernando Beach clean up after serious flooding and house fire caused by Hurricane Idalia.

After being held in limbo – meandering for days in the northwestern Caribbean – Idalia, now a strengthening hurricane, is making a beeline for Florida’s Big Bend, with devastating impacts forecast as it comes ashore as a major hurricane tomorrow.

Hurricane Idalia was forecast to intensify as it drives a potentially deadly storm surge toward the Big Bend area of Floridas Gulf Coast.

Hurricane Idalia was forecast to intensify as it drives a potentially deadly storm surge toward the Big Bend area of Florida's Gulf Coast.      

Hurricane Idalia, which struck western Cuba as a tropical storm, strengthened to Category 2 on Tuesday and barreled toward Florida's west coast where it is forecast to make landfall as a Category 4 hurricane Wednesday.

Idalia made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane and it's now traveling through northern Florida and into Georgia as a Category 1 storm. Follow here for live updates.

Hurricane Idalia was intensifying as it drives a potentially deadly storm surge toward the Big Bend area of Floridas Gulf Coast. Updates.

Hurricane Idalia path live tracker: Georgia and South Carolina are bracing for heavy rain and wind after the storm made landfall near Keaton Beach, Fla.