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Category 3 Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Taylor County’s Keaton Beach area, where the sheriff said it could have been worse.
Sea defenses were breached in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday night as the waters in the harbor stood at 9ft - 3ft over the average high water mark.
Some communities across Florida’s west coast battered by Idalia’s deluge and ferocious winds endured a “life-changing event,” an official says, after the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the Big Bend region in at least 125 years delivered record water levels, damaging thousands of homes in its path.
Tropical Storm Idalia is still pounding the Southeast’s Atlantic coast, bringing flash flood warnings in North Carolina as communities across Florida’s west coast survey extensive damage.
Hours after Hurricane Idalia hit, Gov. Ron DeSantis went to rural Taylor County, where downed trees and some power lines littered the roads.