‘You can’t survive this’: Hurricane Idalia strikes Florida’s most vulnerable coast
Officials and residents said the rural Big Bend region was wholly unprepared for the Category 3 storm.
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Hurricane Idalia causes flooding and power outages; Big Bend pummeled while Tallahassee avoids widespread destruction
The sparsely populated Nature Coast was hammered with 125 mph sustained winds in the strike zone at Keaton Beach.
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