Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Florida's lightly populated Big Bend region on August 30 as a Category 3 storm with winds of at least 130 mph (209 kph). The storm surge could reach up to 15 feet (4.5 meters). The Big Bend is where the peninsula merges into the Panhandle,...
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper alsodeclared a state of emergencyahead of Hurricane Idalia, as didGeorgia Gov. Brian Kemp. "We are taking every precaution ahead of Hurricane Idalia's landfall tomorrow, and I am taking this additional executive action to ensure state assets are ready to respond...
Evacuation zones Floridacategorizes areas into different evacuation zones, with Zone A typically being the most vulnerable to flooding during a storm to Zone F typically being the last to evacuate. Florida residents are urged to check if they live in an evacuation zone by using a map on the F...
Jose Gonzales and his 14-year-old son, Jadin, shoveled sand into bags and piled them into the back of a pickup truck. Though their home is inland, Gonzales said heavy rains during Hurricane Idalia a year ago got blown under his doors and cracked a window....
"If you do choose to stay in one of the evacuation zones, first responders will not be able to get you until after the storm has passed." Tolls were suspended early Tuesday morning along Florida's west coast,according to the governor's office, and dozens of shelters opened. ...
These forecasts provide information for emergency operations and evacuation along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts. However, both SLOSH and ADCIRC forecasts are based on two-dimensional barotropic models. SLOSH is further constrained in that it uses a coarse grid resolution (on the order of a ...