Hurricane Idalia crashed into Florida as a fearsome Category 3 storm Wednesday morning, ripping roofs off homes and leaving entire neighborhoods submerged before tearing into Georgia.
as a fearsome Category 3 storm Wednesday morning, ripping roofs off homes and leaving entire neighborhoods submerged before tearing into Georgia and sending residents scrambling for cover.sparsely populated Big Bend region at 7:45 a.m., toppling power lines, unmooring boats and propelling debris as water levels vaulted 9 feet in just two hours.Thomas and his family relocated to an inland motel to ride out the storm — but didn’t venture quite far enough.“It was frightening,” he said.
A 59-year-old Gainesville man was killed after careening into a ditch and crashing into a tree line, highway patrol officials reported. “Our entire downtown is underwater,” he said. “Part of a whole hotel just broke apart and went into the Gulf. It’s like the Gulf is trying to swallow us up.”The system also upended travel plans for thousands of fliers as airports closed in advance of the hurricane’s approach, leading to mass cancellations in Florida and Georgia.
“Mason, Madison, Mamie and I were home at the time, but thankfully no one was injured,” she wrote on X along with a picture of the severed tree.CRISTOBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock “They are 100% OK,” he said. “We’re going to get to those folks just as fast as we can get our emergency access teams to them.”A man walking through floodwaters near his home in Jena.After hitting Tallahassee, Idalia exited the Sunshine State and rolled into Georgia as a weakened Category 1 hurricane, blasting the southern portion of the state with high winds and rain.
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