Live Breaking News & Updates on Big Grand Old Trees

reporter: i am north of you, sara, steinhatchee, florida, and first light is giving us our first look at hurricane idalia, she s somewhere over there. this is just the edge, the southern tip of the big bend, as the wilderness preserves and the nature coast goes around to the panhandle here, these big grand old trees are what worries the folks in the immediate term. we re in that sort of surreal early storm phase between the bands where it gets calm, actual calm and then boom a gust will come up and catch you. we re hearing the corrugated roofs on the docks banging around down there. there s a big worry if the storm surge is as predicted over a dozen feet it could lift pretty much every one of these floating docks off of their moorings and let them fly and float around this neighborhood. this is a fishing community, small, about a thousand people or so, it should be the height of scallop season with tourists, ....

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