Irma Live Updates: Storm Pushes North, but Millions Are Without Power in Florida
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Irma Live Updates: Storm Pushes North, but Millions Are Without Power in Florida
“It’s horrible what we saw.”
• As of 5 p.m., the storm had maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour and was moving north-northwest about 10 miles east of Albany, Ga.
• The National Weather Service said a flash flood emergency had been declared in Charleston, S. C.
• Flooding from a storm surge in Jacksonville exceeded a record set by Hurricane Dora in 1964, the National Weather Service said.
In Tampa, Mayor Bob Buckhorn, who on Sunday warned residents
that the city was about to get “punched in the face,” said on Monday that the city had been spared the storm’s worst.
“But just if you looked at the bigger weather map and saw the counterclockwise rotation of Irma, juxtaposed with a clockwise high-pressure rotation over the Atlantic, Charleston was like in the pincer of those two motions
that has driven wind and hurricane bands almost directly into our city.”
Mr. Tecklenburg said that the flooding was even worse than last year’s Hurricane Matthew, which inundated the city in October, in great part
because Matthew arrived at low tide, whereas Irma’s effect came at high tide.
“We need you to heed our warnings,” Mayor Lenny Curry of Jacksonville said on Monday, explaining
that high tides would raise river waters up to 6 feet above their normal levels and cause additional flooding.
In an interview Monday afternoon, Mayor John Tecklenburg said
that the city had been hit with a four-foot storm surge, leaving parts of the peninsula looking as if they had merged with the Ashley River.
“It’s horrible what we saw.”
• As of 5 p.m., the storm had maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour and was moving north-northwest about 10 miles east of Albany, Ga.
• The National Weather Service said a flash flood emergency had been declared in Charleston, S. C.
• Flooding from a storm surge in Jacksonville exceeded a record set by Hurricane Dora in 1964, the National Weather Service said.
In Tampa, Mayor Bob Buckhorn, who on Sunday warned residents
that the city was about to get “punched in the face,” said on Monday that the city had been spared the storm’s worst.
“But just if you looked at the bigger weather map and saw the counterclockwise rotation of Irma, juxtaposed with a clockwise high-pressure rotation over the Atlantic, Charleston was like in the pincer of those two motions
that has driven wind and hurricane bands almost directly into our city.”
Mr. Tecklenburg said that the flooding was even worse than last year’s Hurricane Matthew, which inundated the city in October, in great part
because Matthew arrived at low tide, whereas Irma’s effect came at high tide.
“We need you to heed our warnings,” Mayor Lenny Curry of Jacksonville said on Monday, explaining
that high tides would raise river waters up to 6 feet above their normal levels and cause additional flooding.
In an interview Monday afternoon, Mayor John Tecklenburg said
that the city had been hit with a four-foot storm surge, leaving parts of the peninsula looking as if they had merged with the Ashley River.