Victoria
Kim
Updated
Aug. 31,
2023, 2:27 a.m. ET48 minutes ago
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Victoria
Kim
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/08/30/us/hurricane-idalia-landfall-florida
Here’s the latest on the storm.
Idalia was
making its way through South Carolina overnight on Thursday, dumping heavy
rains, flooding streets and imperiling coastal communities with the double
threat of storm surge and high tides.
The center
of the storm passed just north of Charleston around midnight, its maximum wind
speeds having slowed to 60 miles per hour. In an early sign that some
waterfront communities had been spared the worst, the fire chief of Edisto
Beach, S.C., said there was “zero to minimal damage” there even after waves had
breached sand dunes that protect homes earlier in the night.
The storm
hit the Big Bend region of Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Category 3 hurricane
Wednesday morning and passed through Georgia during the day, sending water
rushing into homes, causing hundreds of thousands of households to lose power
and leaving some picturesque costal villages in its track unrecognizable to
residents.
Even after
being downgraded to tropical storm, forecasters warned, Idalia could bring
strong winds and amplify what were expected to be higher-than-usual high tides
because of a “supermoon” making its closest orbital pass to Earth. The tropical
storm was expected to move off the coast of the Carolinas on Thursday morning.
Here’s what
to know:
As Idalia continues on its path north, it was
expected to bring to parts of North Carolina heavy rains and the possibility of
tornadoes. Some school districts canceled classes for Thursday as a precaution.
Two deaths from car crashes early Wednesday in
Florida were attributed to the weather conditions: one in Gainesville and one
in Pasco County, north of Tampa.
More than 300,000 customers in Florida, Georgia
and South Carolina were without power early Thursday, according to
PowerOutage.us, which tracks outages across the United States.
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