• last year
Florida residents assess the damage from Category 3 Hurricane Idalia's flooding after the storm inundated coastal communities and knocked out power to thousands. Though Idalia weakened to a Category 1 hurricane and eventually a tropical storm with winds of 60 miles per hour, it remained dangerous as it raked over Georgia and into South Carolina.
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00:26 To be honest with you, I woke up this morning just in complete shock.
00:31 I never seen anything like this.
00:33 As I rode through town trying to get to my house,
00:36 you see trees uprooted, power lines laying in the road.
00:39 And it's just pretty devastating.
00:43 It took a toll on this town.
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01:04 So now I'm just cleaning up the mess, the messy yard,
01:15 the fence that blew over, and things like that.
01:18 And waiting for the electricity to come back on.
01:20 So, but like I said, we're the lucky ones.
01:23 I mean, my poor neighbor over here got a boat in his backyard.
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