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PERRY — The county seat of Taylor County felt the full force of Hurricane Idalia as it ravaged the Big Bend of Florida. Residents lost personal possessions, roofs and countless trees. But in the tight-knit city of about 7,000, at least the people of Perry have each other. “We lost everything,” said Jean Padgett, whose father-in-law is Taylor County Sheriff Wayne Padgett. “In this community, ...
Effort when it comes to hundreds of thousands of pine trees that exist up here in the northern part of florida, trying to get them out of the roadways. i suspect probably 100 mile per hour winds all the way to i-10, that would certainly put a kibosh on the travel there until they get the trees out of the way. this will be a real long duration power outage event. and then we're going to take a look at the rainfall coming into georgia, and through the carolinas. so we have to be very careful where you have evacuated to because there will be flash flooding here in those 6 to 10 inch rainfall area...
I-75, they would be driving 400 miles per hour, there is a lot of strategy that goes into prepositioning state resources. florida has a lot of experience in this, not necessarily this part of florida, from nature coast up through big bend back to 1851, there has not been a category 4 plus that made landfall thchl is marshy, not like the beaches. it is marshy and a lot of pine trees through here, especially getting away from the coasts, which are susceptible to snapping off with wind of this magnitude thchl is going to lead to power outages. we've been watching this closely, watch this wobble t...
And power lines that it became hard to navigate around this city. we expect that to be the case again now because a lot of these, of course the ground underneath the trees getting saturated, that means these trees are going to be vulnerable. when the wind starts to kick up, we know it's coming here in tallahassee soon, when that kicks up everybody here has to be very careful. nobody should be out trying to navigate these roads. we did hear, our team about an hour and 15 minutes ago, we heard first responders and sirens, that's not the case in the next couple of hours. as we've been told up and...
Life-threatening storm surge, hurricane-force winds and heavy rain. leon county residents, you should expect downed trees, blocked roads, power outages, flooding and overall dangerous conditions. now more than ever you must stay informed and follow all emergency orders. everyone must shelter in place until the storm has passed. please continue to follow leon county on social media, our website, and local radio station wfsu. i encourage everyone to try and hunker down and stay safe until the storm has passed. once the storm passes we may have many people without power and there may be lots of d...