{"id":2016455,"date":"2023-08-30T08:07:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T12:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hurricane-idalia-latest-category-3-storm-makes-landfall-in-floridas-big-bend-region\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T09:23:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T13:23:58","slug":"hurricane-idalia-latest-category-3-storm-makes-landfall-in-floridas-big-bend-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hurricane-idalia-latest-category-3-storm-makes-landfall-in-floridas-big-bend-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Idalia, a Category 3 storm, hits Florida&#8217;s Big Bend region."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhurricane-idalia-latest-category-3-storm-makes-landfall-in-floridas-big-bend-region%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2016455&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Hurricane Idalia Strikes Florida&#8217;s Big Bend Region<\/h2>\n<p>Hurricane Idalia intensified overnight, reaching Category 3 status, and made landfall in Florida&#8217;s Big Bend Region on Wednesday at\u2063 7:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>By \u200c1:30 \u200ba.m. on Wednesday, Idalia had already unleashed winds of up to 130 miles per \u200chour and flooding had begun.<\/p>\n<h3>Idalia Path Tracker: Watch Live to \u2063Stay Informed<\/h3>\n<p>The \u2063&#8221;Big Bend&#8221; region \u200drefers to \u2062the area where the \u200bpeninsula merges into the Panhandle, just southeast of Tallahassee, the capital, and well north of\u200b the Tampa metro area. This is\u200b the first <a title=\"U.S. sets record for most expensive weather disasters in 2020\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-sets-record-for-most-expensive-weather-disasters-in-2020\/\">major storm<\/a> to hit the region since Hurricane Easy in 1950.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) provided\u200d an update at 6:30 \u2062a.m. on Wednesday, warning that the state had already experienced 11 tornado warnings, with the possibility of more \u2063to come. DeSantis also <a title=\"Hurricane Idalia, a Category 3 storm, hits Florida's Big Bend region.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hurricane-idalia-latest-category-3-storm-makes-landfall-in-floridas-big-bend-region\/\">mentioned storm swells\u200c reaching<\/a> up to 16 feet and reported that 54,000 households were without power.<\/p>\n<p>Once \u200bthe initial storm passes over the\u200b coastal areas, DeSantis assured\u2064 that search and rescue efforts \u2063would commence. \u200bHe urged residents to seek shelter in a safe place \u2064and\u2063 emphasized the importance of staying\u2062 indoors and avoiding flooded streets.<\/p>\n<p>To prepare for the aftermath, the state has allocated 3,000 generators and over 1 million gallons of fuel \u2062to bridge the gap between <a title=\"'Incredibly Unusual Event' -- Virginia Officials Surprised Heavy Winter Snow Led to I-95 Gridlock\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/incredibly-unusual-event-virginia-officials-surprised-heavy-winter-snow-led-to-i-95-gridlock\/\">power outages caused<\/a> by Idalia and the restoration of utilities.\u200d DeSantis also reminded everyone\u200b not to operate generators \u2062inside their homes or garages.<\/p>\n<p>During DeSantis&#8217;s press conference on Wednesday,\u2064 there was a \u2064brief power surge, underscoring the urgency of preparing for <a title=\"NWS: Hurricane Idalia Threatens Florida with Unprecedented Danger.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/national-weather-service-warns-hurricane-idalia-poses-unprecedented-danger-to-florida\/\">widespread power\u2064 outages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to\u2062 read more \u200bfrom The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Idalia, now a Category 3 storm, hit Florida&#8217;s Big Bend Region at 7:45 a.m. on Wednesday. By 1:30 a.m., it had winds of 130 mph and flooding had started. Watch the live Idalia path tracker to know its current location and future trajectory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2016456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Hurricane Idalia, a Category 3 storm, hits Florida&#8217;s Big Bend region.","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Hurricane Idalia, a Category 3 storm, hits Florida&#8217;s Big Bend region.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}