‘You can’t survive this’: Hurricane Idalia strikes Florida’s most vulnerable coast

Grist
By Jake BittleAug 30, 2023, 2:51 pm125 pts
This year’s first major hurricane made landfall early Wednesday morning, bringing 125-mile-per-hour winds to Florida’s Big Bend region. Officials and residents told Grist that the sparsely populated coastal area, which stretches from near Gainesville to just south of Tallahassee, was wholly unprepared for…

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