Massive surge, wind, and rain impacts are spreading across North Florida and west-central Florida, and you should be sheltering in place in these areas into the afternoon.
Joe Raedle/GettyHurricane Idalia made landfall as an “extremely dangerous” Category 3 hurricane on Wednesday morning with winds near 125 mph and warnings of deadly storm surge.The National Hurricane Center said at 7:45 a.m. ET that the storm had come ashore along the Gulf Coast near Keaton Beach. Idalia was downgraded from Category 4 earlier in the morning, but forecasters underscored that the storm was severe, bringing “catastrophic storm surge and destructive winds” in Florida’s Big Bend regio
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debris that has been knocked around. so there s a lot of moving parts there, kind of at ground zero. we have a national guard unit there. the general will talk more about that. coast guard is active, including with rotary wing assets. florida fish and wildlife has both boats and vehicles en route. florida department of transportation has been conducting cut and toss operations, starting at the southern part of the state as the storm moved through southwest florida, clearing those roads and then moving all the way up north. they are en route to clear all the way up to taylor county. right now, tampa airport is going to reopen for incoming flights at 4:00 p.m., by 3:00 a.m. tomorrow it will be fully reopened. gainesville airport will reopen tonight. tallahassee airport will reopen first thing in the morning. the ports in tampa and manatee are undergoing assessment.concl