The first hurricane in over a decade struck Florida’s Gulf Coast early Friday morning with heavy rain and winds up to 80 mph winds. Along with severe coastal damage, Hurricane Hermine also resulted in at least one death.
More from the Los Angeles Times:
The Category 1 hurricane crashed ashore early Friday near St. Marks, a tiny town with a population of less than 300, in the low-lying, marshy Big Bend area, where the state’s peninsula meets the Panhandle.
In St. Marks, the storm surge flooded the Riverside Café, the Sweet Magnolia Inn and Bo Lynn’s Grocery, the community’s only market. Yet it did not reach the post office as it did when Hurricane Kate swept through the region in 1985. …
After pounding through a mostly undeveloped area of Wakulla County, full of national wildlife refuges and forests, Hermine stormed into the state’s capital of Tallahassee, which has a population of more than 181,000.
Hermine felled trees and limbs and knocked down power lines, blocking roads and cutting off power to more than 253,000 utility customers across Florida.
Cedar Key, a small town of around 700 people located about 100 miles south of where the storm came ashore, saw damage to the homes and business of an estimated 300 residents, according to Police Chief Virgil Sandlin.
“This is by far the worst storm I’ve ever experienced in my 34 years of living here,” Sandlin said, according to The Times. “It’s worse than the storm of the century.”
Hermine was a Category 1 hurricane when it made landfall and weakened to a tropical depression as it moved over Georgia and South Carolina. Dangerous storm surges can still be expected:
#TROPICS: The center of #Hermine is moving into North Carolina and a dangerous storm surge is expected. https://t.co/u6zgTF7E6A
— Social Life In Miami (@SocialLifeMiami) September 3, 2016
Here’s a sampling of some of the damage experienced from Twitter:
Severe storm surge damage to home in Keaton Bch, FL. #Hermine pic.twitter.com/HB0FyFJcc0
— Jeff Gammons (@StormVisuals) September 2, 2016
Another large tree completely snapped in half. #Hermine pic.twitter.com/cS0faGNL0s
— Matt Reagan (@reaganmatt) September 2, 2016
Crystal River and the Bay Area continues to cleanup the mess left behind from #Hermine @DaveOFox13 has your forecast pic.twitter.com/7ai9clzPIR
— Alcides Segui FOX (@seguifox13) September 3, 2016
#Florida meteorologist Josh Linker of @BN9 says this is the best viewer photo sent in during #Hermine, pic.twitter.com/affS2iT3R4
— Craig Pittman (@craigtimes) September 3, 2016
Drone footage shows flooded streets in Florida after Hurricane #Hermine pushes through. https://t.co/WcPxZYRjGI pic.twitter.com/rhsctIpByN
— ABC News (@ABC) September 2, 2016
We’re starting to get pictures of damage and flooding from #Hermine >> https://t.co/wCGzdgdQlO pic.twitter.com/EpxGETzstn
— WIS News 10 (@wis10) September 2, 2016
#Hermine damage in Horseshoe Beach – courtesy: Frank Whitehead pic.twitter.com/EtI9a1Et0r
— News4JAX (@wjxt4) September 2, 2016
Multiple reports of heavy damage in Northern FL especially Alligator Point due to #Hermine (Credit:@dixiealleychsr) pic.twitter.com/4xVkFToQv7
— Matias Csillag (@CsillagMatias) September 1, 2016
This is the kind of damage we are seeing near Carrabelle – crews working to get trees out of road @wsvn #Hermine pic.twitter.com/jnf6dEtXwx
— Brian Entin (@BrianEntin) September 2, 2016
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