Two people died in Florida in traffic accidents due to bad weather from Idalia which travels this Thursday through Georgia and the Carolinas.
At the moment, No deaths or missing persons have been reported directly related to the Idalia floods that made landfall yesterday morning as category 3 in the northwest of the state.
Fatal accidents in the “Sunshine State” They were reported yesterday morning separately before the cyclone made landfall, the Highway Patrol reported.
The first occurred before 6 a.m. around a curve on Southeast Hawthorne Road., southeast of Gainesville. In that instance, a 59-year-old man failed to negotiate a turn and his Toyota pickup truck crossed a ditch and crashed in a wooded area.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene by Alachua County fire personnel.reported Fox 35.
The second accident was reported minutes later approximately 100 miles south of the same city. In this case, a 40-year-old man who he was also riding in a pickup he was driving too fast when the vehicle swerved and hit a tree. The person also died at the scene.
This morning, Floridians are working to get up and recover from the event.
In Governor Ron DeSantis’ most recent Twitter message this morning, he reported that less than 12 hours after Idalia made landfall, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) managed to clear all the bridges in the stateincluding Cedar Key.
“This is an important step in the recovery and will allow first responders, authorities, line repairers, and suppliers to reach the island,” the official said.
At the moment, Some 300,000 customers in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina are without power.
Although the system was downgraded to a tropical storm, remains a threat, primarily to the Carolinas.
Idalia could drop up to eight inches of rain in that region and floods.
“The combination of storm surge and tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be inundated by increased water moving inland from the coast,” the National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned.
Between 2 and 5 inches of rain have fallen in parts of southeastern North Carolinaincluding the Wilmington area, where a flash flood warning is in effect for this morning.
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