Hurricane Idalia slams into Florida; Causes inundation, massive power outage | Oneindia News
Hurricane Idalia plowed into Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday with howling winds, torrential rains and pounding surf, then weakened as it turned its fury on south-eastern Georgia, where floodwaters trapped some residents in their homes. The powerful storm, which the National Hurricane Center (NHC) called "an unprecedented event", made landfall shortly after daybreak with 160mph gusts near Keaton Beach on Florida’s Gulf coast. Idalia grew from a tropical storm into a hurricane early on Tuesday, a day after passing west of Cuba, where it damaged homes and flooded villages. In Florida, it pushed inland a storm surge of up to 16ft, submerging small coastal communities and setting record high water levels across a wide area stretching 200 miles south to Tampa.
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00:00 Hurricane Italia ploughed into Florida's Gulf Coast on Wednesday with howling winds,
00:13 torrential rains and pounding surf, then weakened as it turned its fury on southeast Georgia,
00:18 where floodwaters trapped some residents in their homes.
00:22 The powerful storm, which the National Hurricane Center called an "unprecedented event,"
00:26 made landfall shortly after daybreak with 160-mile-per-hour gusts near Keaton Beach
00:31 on Florida's Gulf Coast.
00:34 Italia grew from a tropical storm into a hurricane early Tuesday, just a day after passing west
00:39 of Cuba, where it damaged homes and flooded villages.
00:42 In Florida, it pushed inland a storm surge of up to 16 feet, submerging small coastal
00:47 communities and setting record high water levels across a wide area stretching 200 miles
00:53 south to Tampa.
00:54 Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis, also warned of a catastrophic impact from the storm as
00:59 he urged residents who had not heeded evacuation orders to shelter in place.
01:04 "Quickly deteriorating conditions," he told a pre-dawn press conference, "would make it
01:09 too dangerous for emergency crews to respond.
01:12 Don't put your life at risk by doing anything dumb at this point," he said.
01:17 More than 280,000 customers in Florida were without electricity, with a further 50,000
01:22 out in Georgia.
01:24 Moreover, 15 tornado warnings were issued for all affected counties.
01:29 More than 40 school districts in Florida cancelled classes.
01:33 Tampa Airport closed to commercial operations with plans to reopen on Thursday.
01:37 U.S. airlines reported the cancellation of more than 850 flights.
01:41 Mandatory evacuation orders were issued in at least 28 of Florida's 67 counties as of
01:47 Tuesday night.
01:48 Most of the state's 21 million residents and many in the adjacent states of Georgia and
01:53 South Carolina were under hurricane warnings and other storm-related advisories.
01:58 State emergency declarations were issued in all three.
02:01 "We're in the thick of this," said a Florida official.
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