There was no immediate word on the toll from the ferocious hurricane winds and inundating waters, but authorities counted at least one death.
Jewell Baggett stands beside a Christmas decoration she recovered from the wreckage of her mother's home, as she searches for anything salvageable from the mobile home her father had acquired in 1973 and built multiple additions on to over the decades, in Horseshoe Beach, Fla., after the passage of Hurricane Idalia, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023.
The weakening storm still packed winds of up to 60 mph as it reached coastal North Carolina on Thursday morning. Tropical storm-force winds were extending outward up to 185 miles . Idalia was expected to travel just off the North Carolina coast Thursday without losing much of its strength and gradually weaken as it rolls off into the ocean through the weekend.
In South Carolina, the storm coupled with king tides to send seawater flowing over sand dunes and spilling onto beachfront streets. In Charleston, a surge from Idalia topped the seawall that protects the downtown, sending ankle-deep ocean water into the streets and neighborhoods where horse-drawn carriages pass million-dollar homes and the famous open-air market.
“All hell broke loose,” said Belond Thomas of Perry, a mill town located just inland from the Big Bend region. Thomas fled with her family and some friends to a motel, thinking it would be safer than riding out the storm at home but the roof was torn away and debris showered onto her pregnant daughter, who fortunately wasn’t injured, Thomas said.
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