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(CNN) — Hurricane Idalia is now thrashing much of northern Florida and south Georgia, whipping winds up to 90 mph, dumping heavy rain and hurling seawater into flooded cities as
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) warned shortly before Hurricane Idalia made landfall in the Florida Big Bend on Wednesday morning that it could bring a storm surge approaching 16 feet. “I think that it’s a hazardous situation,” DeSantis, a Republican presidential hopeful, said at Wednesday’s press conference. “If you end up with storm surge that…
The Category 3 storm hit along the coast of the Florida Big Bend near Keaton Beach about 7:45 a.m. local time, posing an immediate threat to lives and properties with its 125 mph winds and significant flooding.
Hurricane Idalia has become an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm, with winds of 130 miles per hour. Effects on Flagler limited.
Hurricane Idalia is now a Category 4 Hurricane located about 90 miles south of Tallahassee, FL, moving north-northeast toward Taylor County, Fla. in Florida's Big Bend. Bainbridge and Decatur County are under a Tropical Storm Warning. Expect 2-4 inches of rain to fall and about a 40 percent chanc