Hurricane Idalia is unleashing life-threatening wind and rain in Florida and Georgia. It made landfall as a dangerous Category 3 hurricane early Wednesday in the lightly populated Big Bend region, …
CEDAR KEY, Fla. — Hurricane Idalia remained an extremely dangerous Category 2 hurricane as it moved into Georgia after making landfall Wednesday morning on Florida’s west coast, where it unleashed life-threatening storm surges and rainfall across an area that has never before received such pummeling.
It remained a Category 2 hurricane with top winds of 105 mph at 10 a.m., and it was expected to remain a hurricane after crossing Florida east of Tallahassee. Just south of Valdosta, Georgia, Interstate 75 was closed after power lines fell across the highway. Forecasters said it would punish the Carolinas overnight as a tropical storm.
Storm surge could rise as high as 16 feet in some places. Some counties implemented curfews to keep residents off roads. They quickly packed a few clothes, medicine, dog food for their two border collies, a computer, important documents and a bag of Cheetos. Motels were packed all the way into Alabama, where they ended up finding a room in Dothan.
Hurricanes are measured on a five category scale, with a Category 5 being the strongest. A Category 3 storm is the first on the scale considered a major hurricane and the National Hurricane Center says a Category 4 storm brings “catastrophic damage.”
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