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# Hurricane Idalia Makes Landfall on Florida's West Coast as a Dangerous Category 3 Storm

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## Video: Hurricane Idalia Makes Landfall on Florida's West Coast as a Dangerous Category 3 Storm

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_Published 2023-08-30. Hurricane Idalia made landfall on Florida’s west coast as a catastrophic Category 3 storm on Wednesday and unleashed life-threatening storm surges and rainfall across an area that has never before received such pummeling._


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## Transcript

Hurricane, eye Dahlia is now a category 4 for storm. That means sustained, winds in excess of 130 mph the Hurricane Wilma, make landfall within the next 2 hours, in, and around Taylor County in the Big, Bend region of Florida, the National Hurricane Center expects storm surge to reach up to 16 feet in some areas of the Big Bend region that level of storm. Surge is life-threatening, do not go outside in the midst of the storm, if it's calm where you are at, maybe because you are in the eye of the storm and those conditions will change very, very quickly. So, wherever you are, a hunker down and and don't take anything for granted here.

This is a very, very powerful storm as soon as it's safe to do so, when the winds die down to a sufficient level search-and-rescue efforts will begin, we have 58, Urban search-and-rescue, teams stage ready to go, 33, ambulance strike, teams 5500 National Guardsman. We also have the Coast Guard on standby. I should that be necessary?

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