Hit florida in more than ten years stormed ashore early this morning. The eye of hurricane hermine made landfall on floridas gulf coast 50 miles east of panama city with dangerous storm surge 12 feet and ten inches of rain is raising fears of widespread flooding. High water has already forced evacuations and in some coastal communities, residents had to be rescued. There are Power Outages and downed trees and tornado warnings have been posted throughout north florida. Our orlando station wkmg is in shell point beach. What is happening there . Reporter we are, right now, in the eye of the storm. Even though its still raining and we are getting some strong wind gusts, its fairly calm what we have seen throughout the night and particular before hermine made landfall. The worst we saw was 10 30 and first eye wall where the rain was going horizontally and strong wind gusts knocking down palm trees and tornado warnings just to our north. But what surprised me was the storm surge, that floodi
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we have rain too. roads are wet, slick, and in spots where rain was heavy overnight, youre going to have things like that to deal with. just be sure youre giving yourself plenty of time. were seeing breaks in the rain. thats good news. further inland, and if we expand the view, theres more wet weather to come. danny has a look at your commute right now. its going to be one of those mornings. good morning to all of you. well be dealing with wet roads. that split line the 271. if youre east of 271, you will still see the rain showers. were not tracking any accidents just yet. remember, hydroplaning and ponding on the roads. heres the picture in the area. 77 just south of i90 where people are getting by just fine. currently we have normal drive times. thank you, dani. its almost 5 02. lets go outside and see the problems that are caused because of the rain. Tiffany Tarpley shows you how the weather may affect you. tiffany . reporter hey, john and lynna. you have to worry about hydroplanin