Tag: Hurricane Idalia

Hurricane Idalia has caused a lot of damage on the beautiful Gulf Coast of Florida. It has flooded towns near the coast and sadly, two people have lost their lives.

Idalia arrived in Florida around 7. 45am It hit an area in Florida called the Big Bend region, which is a rural and not very crowded place that is also known as Florida’s ‘Nature Coast. ‘

In simple words, the Big Bend area doesn’t usually get directly affected by hurricanes. This made the National Weather Service in Tallahassee describe the storm as something extremely rare and unexpected.

Idalia hit the area of Keaton Beach, which is not officially part of a city, directly. Keaton Beach is about 22 miles south of Perry and 20 miles north of Steinhatchee, a town by the coast.
The town is located where the river meets the sea, and it experienced very bad flooding shortly after the storm came nearby.

At 730am, the Steinhatchee River was 0. 83 feet above its usual height.

By 745am, the height had increased by 2. 49 feet more than usual. Just one hour later, the National Weather Service measured that the water levels were 8. 02 feet above the normal average.

Videos from Steinhatchee show that the flooding was very bad. The flood was so bad that some buildings were surrounded by the rising river water and looked like islands.
The NOAA said the water at Cedar Key was 6. 8 feet higher than usual. The people living there were asked to leave by the government.

Most of the 900 people living on the islands left before the storm came, but a few locals and emergency workers stayed behind.

Videos posted by Cedar Key Fire Rescue show that the streets of the island are completely flooded with water from the sea.

The agency said, “We will need everyone to be patient. ” They said that the tide will keep rising until twelve o’clock in the afternoon. Most of the roads near the city center are covered in water.
Afterwards, the emergency workers said that propane tanks were exploding all over the island while the storm was happening.

They told us not to go to Cedar Key.

The police in Florida announced that two people have died because of the bad weather.

The first person died in Gainesville at around 6:00am on Wednesday morning. While driving in very heavy rain, a driver went off the road and hit the trees.

There was another death in Pasco County, near the Big Bend. The driver was going too fast and crashed into a tree after sliding off the road.

Hurricane Idalia has hit the shores of Florida’s Gulf Coast as a very destructive Category 3 storm.

Idalia hit the mainland United States around 7. 45am on Wednesday, after getting stronger in the Gulf of Mexico for a few days.

The storm hit the Keaton Beach, Florida area, according to the National Weather Service.

The National Hurricane Center said that dangerous winds that can cause harm to people’s lives will happen when the center of Hurricane Idalia reaches the coast in the Big Bend area of Florida.

They also said there would be big waves and floods that could go up to 16 feet above the ground level.

Florida Governor Ron DeSant is said that if a storm surge reaches around 16 feet, it is highly unlikely that people will be able to survive. ‘You should be in a building with three floors because it is going to go up very, very high. ’

Idalia is moving slowly towards the north and is expected to bring strong rain and damaging winds to southern Georgia.

A Category 3 hurricane, according to the Saffir-Simpson Scale, can maintain winds of 111 to 129 miles per hour.

Idalia grew stronger overnight, briefly reaching Category 4 status before being lowered once more at 7 o’clock in the morning.

The Big Bend area of the Gulf Coast, where storms often don’t get ashore, was directly impacted by the storm.

The National Weather Service station in Tallahassee stated Wednesday that no major hurricanes had ever passed across the Apalachee Bay in recorded history. “DO NOT attempt to compare this storm to others. Nobody has ever seen this.

Hurricane Idalia makes landfall in Florida to heavy winds and rain.

Orders were given to leave in 22 counties in the area, which included everyone who lives in Cedar Key, an island by Levy County.
Simply put, Cedar Key Commissioner Sue Colson told residents to leave. ‘We shouldn’t talk about it. ‘

Cedar Key Fire Rescue said during the storm that the tide will keep rising until noon. Many of the roads near the city center are flooded. Right now, we are unable to go outside and see the extent of the problems. Please stay away from Cedar Key.

Later in the morning on Wednesday, they gave a serious warning to the small number of people who remained on the island: “There are exploding propane tanks scattered all over the island. ” Don’t drive and don’t go outside. “We are currently unable to reach them. ”

The photos and videos taken in the area that was directly hit by a disaster show that the power lines have fallen down, the streets are covered with water, and homes are underwater.

More than 200,000 people in Florida lost electricity, mainly in the Big Bend area.