Residents in at least three Florida counties - Flagler, Palm Beach and Volusia - were ordered to evacuate from barrier islands, low-lying areas and mobile homes. The evacuation orders went into effect Wednesday morning. Officials at Orlando International Airport, the seventh busiest in the U.S.,...
Residents in several Florida counties — Flagler, Palm Beach, Martin and Volusia — were ordered to evacuate such barrier islands, low-lying areas and mobile homes. Volusia, home to Daytona Beach, imposed a curfew and warned that intercoastal bridges used by evacuees would close when winds reac...
Many Canadians live in Florida seasonally, and Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly had urged them to leave Wednesday as millions were ordered to evacuate across several counties. Robinson, who monitored the storm from Sarasota, Fla., where the eye of the hurricane passed through at night, says ...
The storm has the "potential to be one of the most destructive hurricanes" the area has seen when it makes landfall in the coming hours, according to the US National Hurricane Center. Some residents haveinsisted they will stayafter millions were ordered to evacuate, whil...
One wrinkle is that people who live in mobile homes are often ordered to evacuate even if they aren’t in a surge-prone zone. The ideal app, therefore, would know about trailer parks and maybe get loaded with a database from Zillow or similar regarding the housing type at a given addres...
The National Weather Service (NOAA) is our main source for weather. Any warnings issued by NOAA should be taken seriously. If you are ordered to evacuate, do so. If the forecast for the day is for severe thunderstorms, plan your fishing trip accordingly. ...
Hundreds of residents in Manatee County, Florida, were ordered to evacuate their homes over Easter weekend as officials feared that awastewater pond could collapse"at any time." On Saturday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantisdeclareda state of emergency for the area,and the local state of emergency ...
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal had urged more than 522,000 residents of six vulnerable coastal counties to voluntarily evacuate. An evacuation hasn’t been seen in 17 years in coastal Georgia. Part of its coast was under a hurricane warning. ...
south of the tampa area late wednesday night. long-term care facilities in counties where mandatory evacuations have been issued have taken their patients elsewhere, while some hospitals prepare to stay open through the storm, the associated press reported. according to florida gov. ron desantis’...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said current evacuation orders from Pasco down to Collier counties include more than 2 million people. "Tampa Bay, Florida, could have the most damage because that water has got nowhere to go in Tampa Bay, and so you end up with a surge," DeSantis said in a...