The Jax Ale Trail was started back in 2014 as a way to shine the spotlight on Jacksonville breweries. The city's tourism bureau bills beer as a big reason to visit and a fun way to see the city.
The Jax Ale Trail was started back in 2014 as a way to shine the spotlight on Jacksonville breweries. The city's tourism bureau bills beer as a big reason to visit and a fun way to see the city.
hurricane matthew makes its way, the eye of that storm, makes its way toward daytona beach. the forecast is calling for it to remain offshore, which is obviously good news. the further offshore it goes, the better it is for this community. that will lessen the chance we ll see the stronger hurricane force winds swirling around the eye of that storm. the winds obviously can do property damage. that s a given. what is a big concern is the storm surge and the water coming off the ocean because 9 times out of 10 it s going to be the water that may cause a loss of life. now, at 12:45 precisely eastern time, that s the next high tide cycle in this area. we do expect to see some flooding take place. the question is, just how close that eye is because it s going to be right off our shore line here, maybe 40, 50 miles away, and it depends on how strongly those winds are blowing at that hour that will determine the actual storm surge. right now, current projections,
water. that s where you re going to get gusts up to 130, 140-mile-per-hour gusts potentially. right along the immediate coast here is where we still could get some of the gusts in the 90 to about 110-mile-per-hour range. and this is what we need to closely watch during the day today. this is the daytona beach area here. you re now down to 19 miles from the worst of those winds. it is going to be very close call if this actually makes it into the daytona beach area or if it remains about 10 miles just offshore. the titusville area where we re getting reports of damage, i just saw on social media, i just retweeted a picture of a house that lost its roof in the titusville area. you can see that there, and i ll clear that and go in closer. there s a lot of small communities. we get the space coast in here. the space coast kind of ends here. that s the military area. the first population centers are oak hill. oak hill, if there s any really significant damage done to any populated area, it
450,000 people just east of the intercoastal waterway as well. some of the evacuation zones, they had water and sewers shut off to protect the integrity of the systems. we re bracing for the impact of the storm. this is a storm that is so strong, this area has not seen something like this since the 1800s. 1898 is the last time they saw this type of storm. the concern, again, is that storm surge, even if it stays offshore, and even if the wind damage isn t as bad as was expected here, and again, as those communities further in south florida and miami and ft. lauderdale and west palm, even though they dodged a bullet, even if they miss the wind damage, we myth still get the storm surge up to 11 feet is expected. the mayor and local officials, emergency management authorities here are urging people to stay indoors at this point. hunker down, and again, expecting the more severe parts of the storm in the early afternoon to the mid-afternoon. that s when we expect winds to kick up around 80