Florida agriculture losses between $78M and $371M from Hurricane Idalia, preliminary estimate says
Florida agriculture losses from Hurricane Idalia are estimated at between $78 million and $371 million, with producers also suffering widespread damage to such infrastructure as irrigation rigs and fences.
โItโs kicking our butt financially:โ Big Bend residents pulling from savings to recover from hurricane
Itโs been a week and a half since Hurricane Idalia barreled through Floridaโs Big Bend as a powerful category 3 storm, with winds up to 125 miles an hour and storm surge over 10 feet in some coastal areas.
DeSantis won't meet with Biden during president's trip to survey Idalia damage
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantisโ office says he has no plans to meet with President Joe Biden when the Democrat flies to Florida this weekend to survey damage from Hurricane Idalia, suggesting that doing so could hinder disaster response because of the logistics involved.
Tropical Storm Idalia has left the building after pounding Florida, Georgia and South Carolina
Florida and Georgia residents living along Hurricane Idaliaโs path of destruction are picking through piles of rubble where homes once stood, throwing tarps over roofs and gingerly navigating through mazes of streets left underwater or clogged with fallen trees.
โWeโve never experienced that beforeโ: Jasper residents cleaning up, helping one another after Idalia
Residents in the small community Jasper said that theyโd never seen anything like what Hurricane Idalia brought to town on Wednesday. Whipping winds and sideways rain started pounding the area just before noon and dragged on across the day.
โIt was frighteningโ: Hurricane Idalia hits Florida with 125 mph winds, floods streets, snaps trees and cuts power
Hurricane Idalia tore into Florida at the speed of a fast-moving train Wednesday, splitting trees in half, ripping roofs off hotels and turning small cars into boats before sweeping into Georgia as a still-powerful storm that flooded roadways and sent residents running for higher ground.
Mayor Deegan: Jacksonville was โvery, very fortunateโ to avoid major impacts from Hurricane Idalia
In her final media briefing on the impacts of Hurricane Idalia, which became a tropical storm Wednesday evening, Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan acknowledged that Duval County was lucky that it was spared the worst of the impacts.