The storm pummelled Cuba with heavy rains on Monday and Tuesday.
“You really got to go now. Now is the time,” said the governor, who earlier stressed residents did not necessarily need to leave the state, but should “get to higher ground in a safe structure”.Tolls were waived on highways out of the danger area, shelters were open and hotels prepared to take in evacuees.
In Tarpon Springs, a coastal community northwest of Tampa, 60 patients were evacuated from a hospital out of concern that the system could bring a seven-foot storm surge. Both Georgia governor Brian Kemp and South Carolina governor Henry McMaster announced states of emergency, freeing up state resources and personnel, including hundreds of National Guard troops.At 11pm on Tuesday, Idalia was about 125 miles west of Tampa, the National Hurricane Centre said. It was moving north at 18 mph.
Idalia will be the first storm to hit Florida this hurricane season, but it is only the latest in a summer of natural disasters, including wildfires in Hawaii, Canada and Greece, the first tropical storm to hit California in 84 years and devastating flooding in Vermont.
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