It is now moving northeast at 20 mph and was located about 35 miles southwest of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina as of Friday evening.
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Hurricane Hermine made landfall in Florida early Friday morning, breaking Florida’s 11-year hurricane dry spell. The governors of Georgia and North Carolina also declared states of emergency.
At Florida’s Keaton Beach, just south of the state’s Big Bend where the peninsula meets the Panhandle, about two dozen people waited on a road just after sunrise Friday trying to get to their homes.
In Tallahassee, a downed tree demolished a Whataburger fast food restaurant, a photo posted to Twitter shows.
In Florida’s Pasco County, north of Tampa, authorities said flooding forced 18 people from their homes in Green Key and Hudson Beach.
If you do go to the beach or choose to stay there, be prepared for the possibility of road closures, flooding of vulnerable oceanfront properties and other low-lying areas, and power outages. “We scale up when we have a storm on the horizon like this, so we’ll be closely monitoring it over the next 24 hours and deciding on staffing after that”.
“I had improvised a seawall that I put in and it in 10 minutes destroyed it”.
“We expect a lot of down traffic lights and road signs, so Floridians should not travel unless they have to”, Scott said.
Strong winds and heavy rain are likely through Sunday and even into Monday, although their intensity may increase and decrease as the storm meanders off the coast, drifting back and forth.
What’s more, it appears that the storm will stall for some time off the Delmarva coast.
An estimated 325,000 people were without power statewide and more than 107,000 in neighboring Georgia, officials said.
The National Hurricane Center has predicted up to 10 inches of rain could fall in Georgia and the Carolinas by Monday morning.
Heavy rains from Tropical Storm Hermine have moved into the Carolinas.
All hurricane watches and warnings were dropped but tropical storm warnings remained for parts of the Florida Gulf Coast, Georgia and up through North Carolina.
“The Hurricane Watch Net will be prepared for the next hurricane to threaten land in the Atlantic Basin”, he added.
Strong thunderstorms moved through Charleston early Friday although no downtown streets were immediately closed because of flooding.
You can report downed lines, outages and check service restoration estimates at conEd.com or by calling 800-752-6633.
“There is a possibility that the system could regain some tropical characteristics in 4-5 days, but this remains uncertain”, a forecast from the National Hurricane Center said.
By dawn Friday, the tropical storm was 20 miles west of Valdosta, Georgia, and moving north at 14 mph, according to the hurricane center.
He said police are now working to figure out if that death was storm-related. Peak winds gusts of up to 50 miles per hour, rain in amounts of one inch or more and “life-threatening” storm surges of two to four feet are among the threats posed by this storm.
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Carl Parker, meteorologist at The Weather Channel. Lowndes County spokeswoman Paige Dukes said crews were dealing with fallen trees and snapped power lines, but no injuries had been reported. This amount of rain will likely lead to flooding in some areas.
