to emphasize what sara is saying, storm surge is happening right now and getting worse. i just got word that idalia is now a category 2 storm as it moves inland. the wind speeds are decreasing, but as bad as the wind is, about 100, 105 miles per hour, that s not the story we re most concerned about right now. it is the storm surge. i m going to go to bill weir who is in steinhatchee right on the coast. bill, i was with you there last night. i just saw pictures of where we were standing last night. the water is now over where our heads were, substantially over where our heads were. just tell us what you re seeing. well, this is the steinhatchee river where you did that live shot yesterday, the banks of it. it norm it alley would flow from east to west, but right now, thanks to the dirty side of idalia, it is pumping upriver now. we re watching pieces of the sea hag marina and those docks and
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Hurricane Idalia barreled into Florida's Big Bend region on Wednesday, bringing devastating storm surge and submerging some homes near their rooftops. Idalia is likely to still be at tropical-storm strength off North Carolina's coast Thursday.
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