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Florida residents had begun stocking up on sandbags and evacuating homes in low-lying areas along the coast on Monday.

State of florida in many, many different ways. be prepared to lose power. this is going to come in if it's cat 3 plus, there's going to be a lot of trees that are going to get knocked down. there's going to be a lot of debris. >> reporter: and the governor says that they are prestaging tens of thousands of linemen to be able to get that power back online as soon as it is safe to do so, and one other issue that i want to point out is that over the weekend there was an issue with gas. there was widespread gas contamination in the tampa area, gas that had been accidentally mixed with diesel. we n...

The source of the leakage and the type of the gas are yet to be ascertained, they added. Police have sealed the area while a fire brigade and an ambulance have been deployed there.