After hitting Florida as a Category 3 storm, it turned to the northeast. It is expected to wreak havoc in Georgia and the Carolinas into Thursday.
Idalia moved into Florida’s Big Bend region about 7:45 a.m. Eastern time as an “extremely dangerous” Category 3 storm, with winds approaching 125 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said, tying a 1896 hurricane as the strongest on record to hit that area. After coming ashore, Idalia turned northeastward and weakened in strength but was still expected to wreak havoc as a tropical storm in Georgia and the eastern Carolinas well into Thursday, forecasters said.
The paper mill town of Perry, with a population of 7,000, was not so lucky. Though it sits more than a dozen miles inland, Idalia’s winds had hurled massive pine and oak trees into the roofs of homes and businesses, downed power lines and ruptured water pipes. Few residents had evacuated, and scary storm stories abounded, tales of ripped holes in ceilings and crushed cars.The power was out, and so was water in some places.
President Biden called DeSantis and the governors of surrounding states to show support, and directed federal agencies to position personnel and resources to aid response and recovery efforts in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, the White House said. “Keaton Beach took knuckles to the face and brushed it off,” she said while drinking a Modelo beer on her deck shortly after returning Wednesday. “I have never been so humbled in my whole life. It’s just a relief.”
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