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Division of Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie said Southwest Florida was experiencing storm surge late Tuesday as Idalia moved through the Gulf of Mexico.
Hurricane Idalia, a powerful Category 2 storm, has rapidly intensified and is threatening a potentially catastrophic collision with Florida's west coast while officials plead with residents to evacuate.
Idalia is expected to bring "life-threatening and catastrophic storm surge flooding" to the Florida coast.
(CNN) — Hurricane Idalia intensified early Wednesday into a dangerous Category 3 storm and is expected to strengthen further before a potentially catastrophic morning collision into Florida’s west coast –
“You really got to go back to the late 1800s to find a storm of this magnitude that will enter (the state) where this one looks like it’s going to enter tomorrow,” Gov. DeSantis said Tuesday evening.